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The vmware_vm_facts module

This module can be used to gather facts on either virtual machines or templates which are running in your VMware vSphere cluster:

- name: Gather facts on all VMs in the cluster  vmware_vm_facts:    hostname: "{{ vsphere_host }}"    username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"    password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"    vm_type: "vm"  delegate_to: "localhost"  register: vm_facts

The previous example gathers information on just the virtual machines that have been created with our cluster and registers the results as the vm_facts variable. If we wanted to find information on just the templates, we could update vm_type to template, or we could list all virtual machines and templates by updating vm_type to all.