HI, I have Created a playbook to take a snapshot before patching of servers but this playbook has only one Guest_vm define so it working perfectly for me.
- name: Vmware guest snapshot create
hosts: test-hypervisor
tasks:
- name: Create a snapshot
vmware_guest_snapshot:
hostname: test-hypervisior
username: root
password: asdfghj123*
datacenter: test-hypervisior
folder: " /folder1/localhost.example.com/vm"
name: RJRedhat01
state: present
validate_certs: False
snapshot_name: snap55
description: Test snapshot
delegate_to: localhost
register: snapshot_info
- name: show the status
debug:
var: snapshot_info.snapshot_results
Above Playbook is working fine for me’, But I have dozens of server and I want to create the snapshot of all nodes, I am using with_item for looping all nodes but it is not working for me.
My Playbook for Multi vm_guest snapshot creation
- name: Vmware guest snapshot create
hosts: test-hypervisior
tasks:
- name: Create a snapshot
vmware_guest_snapshot:
hostname: test-hypervisior
username: root
password: asdfghj123*
datacenter: test-hypervisior
folder: " /folder1/localhost.example.com/vm"
name: “{{ item}}”
with_items:
- RJCentos1
- RJRedhat01
- MAXFAX01
state: present
validate_certs: False
snapshot_name: snap__with_multi_vms
description: snap1_descriptioninnn
delegate_to: localhost
register: snapshot_info
- name: show the status
debug:
var: snapshot_info.snapshot_results
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
ansible-playbook vm-snap-c2.yaml -u root -k
SSH password:
PLAY [Vmware guest snapshot create] *************************************************************************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] **************************************************************************************************************************************************
Monday 20 April 2020 07:28:44 -0400 (0:00:00.056) 0:00:00.056 **********
ok: [test-hypervisior]
TASK [Create a snapshot] ************************************************************************************************************************************************
Monday 20 April 2020 07:28:46 -0400 (0:00:02.462) 0:00:02.519 **********
fatal: [test-hypervisior]: FAILED! => {“msg”: “The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ‘item’ is undefined\n\nThe error appears to be in ‘/home/akumar/vm/vm-snap-c2.yaml’: line 5, column 9, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n\n - name: Create a snapshot\n ^ here\n”}
PLAY RECAP **************************************************************************************************************************************************************
test-hypervisior : ok=1 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Monday 20 April 2020 07:28:47 -0400 (0:00:00.167) 0:00:02.687 **********
