The VMware modules

As already mentioned, there are around 30 products in the VMware range; these cover everything from hypervisors to virtual switches, virtual storage, and several interfaces for interacting with your VMware-based hosts and virtual machines. In this section, we will cover the core modules that ship with Ansible to manage all aspects of your VMware estate.

I have tried to split them into logical groups and, for each of the groups, will give a brief explanation of the product the modules are targeting.

Requirements

The modules all have one thing in common: they all require a Python module called PyVmomi to be installed. To install this, run the following pip command:

$ sudo pip install PyVmomi

This module contains...