Initial commit of Ansible inventory playbooks

get_esxi_inventory.yml

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+---
+- name: Gather VM inventory from ESXi hypervisor
+  hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: false
+  vars:
+    esxi_hostname: "your_esxi_host_ip"  # Replace with your ESXi host IP or hostname
+    esxi_username: "root"              # Replace with your ESXi username
+    esxi_password: "your_password"     # Replace with your ESXi password (use ansible-vault for security)
+    validate_certs: false              # Set to true if you have valid certs
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Gather information about all VMs on the ESXi host
+      community.vmware.vmware_vm_info:
+        hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
+        username: "{{ esxi_username }}"
+        password: "{{ esxi_password }}"
+        validate_certs: "{{ validate_certs }}"
+      register: vm_info
+
+    - name: Display the VM inventory
+      debug:
+        var: vm_info
+
+    - name: Save VM inventory to file
+      copy:
+        content: "{{ vm_info | to_nice_json }}"
+        dest: /root/esxi_vm_inventory.json
+
+# Notes:
+# - Install the community.vmware collection: ansible-galaxy collection install community.vmware
+# - Ensure pyvmomi is installed on the control machine: pip install pyvmomi
+# - For production, secure passwords with ansible-vault or use environment variables.