community.vmware.vmware_folder_info – Provides information about folders in a datacenter

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Return Values

Synopsis

• The module can be used to gather a hierarchical view of the folders that exist within a datacenter

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• PyVmomi

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Provide information about vCenter folders
  community.vmware.vmware_folder_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: datacenter_name
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: vcenter_folder_info

- name: Get information about folders
  community.vmware.vmware_folder_info:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter: 'Asia-Datacenter1'
  register: r

- name: Set Managed object ID for the given folder
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    folder_mo_id: "{{ (r.flat_folder_info | selectattr('path', 'equalto', '/Asia-Datacenter1/vm/tier1/tier2') | map(attribute='moid'))[0] }}"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Authors

• David Hewitt (@davidmhewitt)