On Ansible 2.9 I'm using the community.vmware collection in order to deploy VM's and increase resources on existing VMs (CPU,RAM,HDD and NICs) I'm struggling with the last once since I need to specify the first network to add a 2nd one (otherwise it will replace it) I'm using the vmware_guest module because it allows me to add the network configuration, here's an example of the playbook:
- name: Add NIC
vmware_guest:
validate_certs: False
hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
username: "{{ username }}"
password: "{{ password }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
name: "{{ name_new_vm }}"
networks:
###First Network, its actual value is just for testing
- name: "{{ resulta.dvs_portgroups[0].name }}"
###Second Network, it's possible to use either portgroup name or vlan ID
- vlan: 1001
start_connected: true
###More Data (IP,Netmask,Gat)
register: deploy_vm
There's also a module called vmware_guest_network_module which can add a 2nd NIC without specifying the previous networks, the problem is I still need to add a network config so vmware_guest and the 1st network are still mandatory
- name: Obtener info de redes previas
vmware_guest_network:
validate_certs: False
hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
username: "{{ username }}"
password: "{{ password }}"
datacenter: "{{ datacenter }}"
name: "{{ name_new_vm }}"
networks:
- name: "{{ network_name }}"
state: new
register: results
In addition I found vmware_guest_info and vmware_guest_network(gather_network_info parameter) to gather info about the NICs on the VM but none of them are giving me the portgroup name nor vlanid to get their values
"network_data": {
"0": {
"allow_guest_ctl": true,
"connected": true,
"device_type": "VMXNET3",
"label": "Network adapter 1",
"mac_addr": "00:50:56:83:7c:b5",
"name": "DVSwitch: 5d 2e 03 50 b0 18 04 00-40 1c da 92 69 e7 f4 5e",
"start_connected": true,
"unit_number": 7,
"wake_onlan": true
},
How can I get the portgroup name or the Vlan Id? I know vmware_dvs_portgroup_find exists but there are hundres of VLANS in the dvswitch so it won't help
