i am quite a newbee with ansible, but i would suggest to
a) use host-variables with e.g. "datacenter" set to the matching datacenter
value or
b) use a regex on the host variable to create the datacenter on it
regards,
andre
Dimitri Yioulos schrieb am Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2024 um 18:34:36 UTC+2:
> Hello, all.
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> I have two VMware vCenter hosts - vcenter1.mycompany.com and
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> datacenter1 and datacenter2. for each host, the datacenter alignments are
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> *---- hosts: all become: false gather_facts: false vars_prompt: -
> name: "vcenter_username" prompt: "Enter your Vcenter username (without
> @vsphere.local)" private: no - name: "vcenter_password"
> prompt: "Enter your VMware password" private: yes - name:
> "vcenter_hostname" prompt: "Enter your Vcenter host
> name:\nvcenter1\nvcenter2\n" private: no - name:
> "vcenter_datacenter" prompt: "Enter your Vcenter
> datacenter:\ndatacenter1\ndatacenter2\n" private: no tasks: -
> name: Find vm folder name ~ - name: Remove all snapshots of all
> VMs community.vmware.vmware_guest_snapshot: hostname: "{{
> vcenter_hostname }}.fmycompany.com <http://fmycompany.com>"
> username: "{{ vcenter_username }}@vsphere.local" password: "{{
> vcenter_password }}" datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}
> Datacenter" folder: "{{ vm_folder.folders |
> regex_replace(\"([\\[\\]'])\",'') }}" name: "{{ inventory_hostname
> }}" state: remove_all validate_certs: False delegate_to:
> localhost*
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> As you can see, at present, I have to provide the vCenter name, and the
> corresponding datacenter name in order for the playbook to work. I would
> like to eliminate the need to specify the datacenter name, and have that
> populate datacenter ("{{ vcenter_datacenter }} Datacenter") based on the
> vCenter host that I choose (hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}.
> fmycompany.com"). I'm not clever enough to suss that out, and would
> appreciate your help.
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