Ansible: vmware parallel deployment with multiple Vcenter

Question

I'm trying to write playbook that will create 3 vm's on 3 ESXI servers from template through Vcenter with Ansible vmware_guest module.

The problem is that i have 3 different Vcenters with 3 ESXI hosts on each and playbook must create all the vm's on all ESXI host in parallel.

i tried with loop, but loop do it step by step.

Here is my version of playbook as of now.

I will be very thankful if someone helps me with that :)

 --- # create a new VM from a template - name: VM from template hosts: localhost gather_facts: false connection: local vars: vcenter_hostname: 10.0.0.1 vcenter_user: john.doe vcenter_pass: Passw0rd vmtemplate: test-teplate name: "newvm2" notes: Ansible Test tasks: - name: Create VM from template vmware_guest: validate_certs: False hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}" username: "{{ vcenter_user }}" password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}" esxi_hostname: "{{ item.esxhost }}" datacenter: Datacenter1 folder: templates name: "{{ name }}" template: "{{ vmtemplate }}" disk: - size_gb: 100 datastore: "{{ item.datastore }}" wait_for_ip_address: False state: present register: newvm2 loop: - {esxhost: '10.0.46.142', datastore: 'Datastore_XXX'} - {esxhost: '10.0.46.143', datastore: 'Datastore_ZZZ'}

Answer 1

You can create them in parallel by dynamically adding each ESX host to the inventory, it would look something like this:

- hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
    - add_host:
        hostname: '{{item.esxhost}}'
        groups: vms
        esxhost:   '{{ item.esxhost }}'
        datastore: '{{ item.datastore }}'
      loop:
         - {esxhost: '10.0.46.142', datastore: 'Datastore_XXX'}
         - {esxhost: '10.0.46.143', datastore: 'Datastore_ZZZ'}

- name: VM from template
  hosts: vms
  gather_facts: false
  connection: local
  vars:
    vcenter_hostname: 10.0.0.1
    vcenter_user: john.doe
    vcenter_pass: Passw0rd
    vmtemplate: test-teplate
    name: "newvm2"
    notes: Ansible Test
  tasks:
    - name: Create VM from template
      vmware_guest:
        validate_certs: False
        hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
        username: "{{ vcenter_user }}"
        password: "{{ vcenter_pass }}"
        esxi_hostname: "{{ esxhost }}"
        datacenter: Datacenter1
        folder: templates
        name: "{{ name }}"
        template: "{{ vmtemplate }}"
        disk:
          - size_gb: 100
            datastore: "{{ datastore }}"
        wait_for_ip_address: False
        state: present
      register: newvm2

You can use the same principle to create all 9 VMs at the same time.