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Ansible Quick Start Guide
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Ansible Quick Start Guide

by Mohamed Alibi
September 2018
Beginner to intermediate
214 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Use case 2 – ESXi hosts and cluster management

We will now try to carry out some higher-level infrastructure management. We will try to create a VMware cluster and add an ESXi host to it:

---- name: Create a VMware cluster and populate it  hosts: localhost  gather_facts: False  tasks:    - name: Create a VMware virtual cluster      vmware_cluster:          hostname: 'vcenter.edu.lab'          username: 'vmadmin@lab.edu'          password: 'VMp@55w0rd'          datecenter: 'vcenter.edu.lab'          validate_certs: no          cluster_name: "LabCluster"          state: present          enable_ha: yes           enable_drs: yes          enable_vsan: no     - name: Add a VMware ESXi host to the newly created       Cluster      vmware_host:          hostname: 'vcenter.edu.lab'          username: 'vmadmin@lab.edu'          password: 'VMp@55w0rd'          datecenter: 'vcenter.edu.lab' validate_certs: ...
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ISBN: 9781789532937