community.vmware.vmware_cluster_ha – Manage High Availability (HA) on VMware vSphere clusters

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples

Synopsis

• Manages HA configuration on VMware vSphere clusters.
• All values and VMware object names are case sensitive.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• Tested on ESXi 5.5 and 6.5.
• PyVmomi installed.

Parameters

Examples

- name: Enable HA without admission control
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_ha:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: datacenter
    cluster_name: cluster
    enable_ha: true
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Enable HA and VM monitoring without admission control
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_ha:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    datacenter_name: DC0
    cluster_name: "{{ cluster_name }}"
    enable_ha: True
    ha_vm_monitoring: vmMonitoringOnly
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Enable HA with admission control reserving 50% of resources for HA
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_ha:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: datacenter
    cluster_name: cluster
    enable_ha: true
    reservation_based_admission_control:
      auto_compute_percentages: False
      failover_level: 1
      cpu_failover_resources_percent: 50
      memory_failover_resources_percent: 50
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

• Joseph Callen (@jcpowermac)
• Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)