community / community.vmware / 4.2.0 / module / vmware_guest_tools_upgrade Module to upgrade VMTools Authors: Mike Klebolt (@MikeKlebolt) <michael.klebolt@centurylink.com>community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_upgrade (4.2.0) — module
Install with ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware:==4.2.0
collections: - name: community.vmware version: 4.2.0
This module upgrades the VMware Tools on Windows and Linux guests and reboots them.
- name: Get VM UUID vmware_guest_facts: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}" folder: "/{{datacenter}}/vm" name: "{{ vm_name }}" delegate_to: localhost register: vm_facts
- name: Upgrade VMware Tools using uuid community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_upgrade: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}" uuid: "{{ vm_facts.instance.hw_product_uuid }}" delegate_to: localhost
- name: Upgrade VMware Tools using MoID community.vmware.vmware_guest_tools_upgrade: hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_username }}" password: "{{ vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ datacenter_name }}" moid: vm-42 delegate_to: localhost
moid: description: - Managed Object ID of the instance to manage if known, this is a unique identifier only within a single vCenter instance. - This is required if O(name) or O(uuid) is not supplied. type: str name: description: - Name of the virtual machine to work with. - This is required if O(uuid) or O(moid) is not supplied. type: str port: default: 443 description: - The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PORT) will be used instead. type: int uuid: description: - UUID of the instance to manage if known, this is VMware's unique identifier. - This is required if O(name) or O(moid) is not supplied. type: str folder: description: - Destination folder, absolute or relative path to find an existing guest. - This is required, if O(name) is supplied. - The folder should include the datacenter. ESX's datacenter is ha-datacenter - 'Examples:' - ' folder: /ha-datacenter/vm' - ' folder: ha-datacenter/vm' - ' folder: /datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: /datacenter1/vm/folder1' - ' folder: datacenter1/vm/folder1' - ' folder: /folder1/datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: folder1/datacenter1/vm' - ' folder: /folder1/datacenter1/vm/folder2' type: str hostname: description: - The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_HOST) will be used instead. type: str password: aliases: - pass - pwd description: - The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PASSWORD) will be used instead. type: str username: aliases: - admin - user description: - The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_USER) will be used instead. type: str datacenter: description: - Destination datacenter where the virtual machine exists. required: true type: str name_match: choices: - first - last default: first description: - If multiple virtual machines matching the name, use the first or last found. type: str proxy_host: description: - Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. - The format is a hostname or a IP. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PROXY_HOST) will be used instead. required: false type: str proxy_port: description: - Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_PROXY_PORT) will be used instead. required: false type: int force_upgrade: default: false description: - This flag overrides the guest operating system detection and forcibly upgrade VMware tools or open-vm-tools. - This is useful when VMware tools is too old and unable to detect the 'guestFamily' value. - Using this flag may sometime give unexpected results since module will override the default - behaviour of 'guestFamily' detection. required: false type: bool validate_certs: default: true description: - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to V(false) when certificates are not trusted. - If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable E(VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS) will be used instead. type: bool installer_options: description: - Command line options passed to the installer to modify the installation procedure for tools. required: false type: str version_added: 4.1.0 version_added_collection: community.vmware