Summary
As you have seen from the very long list of modules, you can do most of the management and configuration tasks you would be doing as a VMware administrator day-to-day using Ansible.
Add to this the modules we looked at in Chapter 8, Ansible Network Modules, for managing network equipment, and modules such as the ones that support hardware such as NetApp storage devices.
By doing this, you can build complex playbooks that span the physical devices, VMware elements, and virtual machines running within your on-premises enterprise-level virtualized infrastructure.
As mentioned at the start of this chapter, at the time of writing, there is a lot of upheaval at VMware. This chapter has been written to show the art of the possible rather than be a practical hands-on guide for managing your VMware resources using Ansible. For more details on the current state of the vmware.vmware_rest collection, go to https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/repo/published/vmware/vmware_rest/.
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