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The vmware_vsan_cluster module

You can use this module to register a VSAN cluster; this module works slightly differently to the other modules in this chapter in that you first need to generate a cluster UUID on a single host before deploying the VSAN on the remaining hosts using the UUIDs generated.

The following tasks assume you have a host group called esxi_hosts, which contains more than one host. The first task assigns the VSAN to the first host in the group, then registers the results:

- name: Configure VSAN on first host in the group  vmware_vsan_cluster:    hostname: "{{ groups['esxi_hosts'][0] }}"    username: "{{ vsphere_username }}"    password: "{{ vsphere_password }}"  register: vsan_cluster

The results, registered as vsan_cluster, contain ...