create single vmware dynamic inventory from multiple vcenters

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I am trying to collect all vms in four different vcenters to create inventory and further act on the that inventory. Using vmware_vm_inventory, I can target one vcenter and hostname does not support a list:

plugin: vmware_vm_inventory strict: False hostname: 10.65.223.31 username: administrator@vsphere.local password: XXXXXYYZZ validate_certs: False with_tags: True

I can make hostname as variable and provide it at runtime but then I will have run the playbook four times.

Is there a way to collect vms from all four vcenters and then run tasks on them?

Thanks in advance.

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Not sure exactly what details you need from VMs, but defining vcenters as vars or part of your inventory will get you a list of vms using vmware_vm_info. Just update the vars section and add as many VCs as you’d like. You will end up with a list of vcenters and whitin the VM details.

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Thanks Rodrigues. The ended up using separate inventory file for each vcenter and than specifying them with multiple -i flags like so:
ansible-inventory -i inventory_file1.yml -i inventory_file2.yml -i inventory_file3.yml
to get all the vms in all the vcenters.