VMware: standardization

VMware parameter standardization

Connection plugins

common

• ansible_vcenter_host -- The values for vcenter can hold either vcenter of ESXi values (where supported)
• ansible_vcenter_user
• ansible_vcenter_password
• ansible_vcenter_cert_validation
• ansible_vcenter_port
• ansible_vcenter_proxy

vcenter

Question: Should we call this plugin vsphere or vmomi instead ?

• ansible_vcenter_host » ansible_host » remote_addr
• ansible_vcenter_port » ansible_port
• ansible_vcenter_user » ansible_user » remote_user
• ansible_vcenter_password » ansible_password
• ansible_vcenter_cert_validation
• ansible_vcenter_proxy

vmwaretools

• ansible_vcenter_host
• ansible_vcenter_port
• ansible_vcenter_user
• ansible_vcenter_password
• ansible_vcenter_cert_validation
• ansible_vcenter_proxy
• ansible_vmwaretools_host » ansible_host » remote_addr
• ansible_vmwaretools_user » ansible_user » remote_user
• ansible_vmwaretools_password » ansible_password
• ansible_vmwaretools_path
• ansible_vmwaretools_exec_command_sleep_interval -- (Can we maybe shorten this to ansible_vmwaretools_operation_interval ?)
• ansible_vmwaretools_file_chunksize

Module parameters

connection-related

• host -- (this replaces **hostname*)*
• port
• username
• password
• validate_certs

common

• cluster
• datacenter
• datastore
• disk
• esxi_hostname
• folder
• resource_pool