Abhijeet, that worked, thanks!. My next question is what if vcenter has
multiple datacenters? I would like to do this for all datacenters.
On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 10:46:09 AM UTC-5, Abhijeet Kasurde wrote:
>
> Hi Gerry,
>
> You may want to try this - Replace variables as per your setup
>
> ---
> - hosts: localhost
> vars_files:
> - vcsim_vars.yml
> tasks:
> - name: Gather all VMs information
> vmware_vm_info:
> hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
> username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
> password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
> validate_certs: no
> register: all_vm_info
> delegate_to: localhost
>
> - name: Get a list of all VMs
> set_fact:
> all_vm: "{{ all_vm_info.virtual_machines | json_query(query) }}"
> vars:
> query: "[*].guest_name"
> - name: Delete all snapshot of all VMs
> vmware_guest_snapshot:
> hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
> username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
> password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
> validate_certs: no
> datacenter: '{{ datacenter }}'
> name: '{{ item }}'
> folder: "/{{ datacenter }}/vm"
> state: remove_all
> with_items: "{{ all_vm }}"
> delegate_to: localhost
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 9:13 PM Gerry Maddock <madd...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I've tried first running vmware_vm_info to get all vm's and debug from
>> that shows all vms allong with other info on the vm's. I would like to loop
>> the "guest_name" into the above snapshot removal using with_item, but not
>> having any luck so far. I may be going at this the wrong way. Any help is
>> appreciated,
>>
>> On Monday, December 30, 2019 at 8:53:01 AM UTC-5, Gerry Maddock wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all, I have been using Ansible to manage snapshots for single
>>> specified vm's. Is there a way to have Ansible remove snapshots for all
>>> vm's in Vmware datacenter? If this is posssible, would you mind providing a
>>> play book example?
>>>
>>> Below is an example where I remove a snapshot from a single vm:
>>>
>>> - name: VM Remove Snapshot
>>> hosts: localhost
>>> gather_facts: false
>>> connection: local
>>> vars:
>>> vcenter_hostname: vspherefqdn
>>> vcenter_user: ansiblesusername
>>> vcenter_pass: changeme
>>> esxhost: 192,168.1.100
>>> datastore: LUN01
>>> name: "{{ vm_name }}"
>>> notes: Ansible Test
>>> dumpfacts: False
>>> tasks:
>>> - name: Remove all snapshots
>>> vmware_guest_snapshot:
>>> validate_certs: False
>>> hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
>>> username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
>>> password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
>>> datacenter: TST1
>>> name: "{{ name }}"
>>> folder: ''
>>> state: remove_all
>>> delegate_to: localhost
>>>
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