# change advanced settings for standalone esxi hosts

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** vmware\
**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087 "2021-12-09T02:41:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087/1 "2021-12-09T02:41:47Z")

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I am trying to change advanced settings for standalone esxi host

is the possible without vcenter?

I looked at

- name: Manage multiple settings for an ESXi host community.vmware.vmware\_host\_config\_manager: hostname: ‘{{ vcenter\_hostname }}’ username: ‘{{ vcenter\_username }}’ password: ‘{{ vcenter\_password }}’ esxi\_hostname: ‘{{ esxi\_hostname }}’ options: ‘Config.HostAgent.log.level’: ‘verbose’ ‘Annotations.WelcomeMessage’: ‘Hello World’ ‘Config.HostAgent.plugins.solo.enableMob’: false delegate\_to: localhost

but it looks like it needs vcenter

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087/2 "2021-12-09T05:32:48Z")

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What makes it look like that?

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_J\_R\_Paz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Roberto\_J\_R\_Paz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roberto_J_R_Paz)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087/3 "2021-12-10T14:27:59Z")

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For what I understand, vCenter includes the API server, so it’s required.

vmware modules uses pyvmomi underneath and this tools connects to the API.

Regards.

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**Author:** ![Tony\_Wong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@Tony\_Wong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony_Wong)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087/4 "2021-12-10T15:47:57Z")

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Hi,

I need to make a few advance settings changes before adding them to vcenter. so I canst do this with ansible on standalone esxi?

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**Author:** ![Roberto\_J\_R\_Paz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@Roberto\_J\_R\_Paz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Roberto_J_R_Paz)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2021, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-advanced-settings-for-standalone-esxi-hosts/36087/5 "2021-12-10T16:27:54Z")

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I’m not sure. Maybe you can access through SSH and do changes using console commands. I’m not sure if VMWare host appliances allows to connect that way. Ansible will require not only SSH but python also.