Ansible Quick Start Guide

VMware guest snapshot management module

This Ansible module enables automatic snapshot management of virtual machines. The following playbook example shows how to take a snapshot on virtual machines:

    - name: create a virtual machine snapshot      vmware_guest_snapshot:          hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"          username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"          password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"          datacentre: vcenter.lab.edu          validate_certs: False          folder: /lab-folder          name: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"          state: present          snapshot_name: Post_Fixes          description: Fixes_done_on_vm      delegate_to: localhost

Case sensitivity is very important when dealing with VMware modules, especially when dealing with virtual machine snapshots. When calling the snapshot later, ensure that its name is ...