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v3.9.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_guest - add support for configuring vMotion and FT encryption (ansible-collections#1069)
  • vmware_host_datastore - added new datastore type 'vvol' for enabling creation/deletion of vVols datastores
  • vmware_host_datastore - added new parameter resignature for supporting resignaturing an existing VMFS datastore on an imported/cloned LUN.
  • vmware_vm_info - Add instance_uuid to the result (ansible-collections#1805)

v3.8.0

Major Changes

  • vmware_vasa - added a new module to register/unregister a VASA provider
  • vmware_vasa_info - added a new module to gather the information about existing VASA provider(s)

Minor Changes

  • autoselect_datastore - add support to also look at NFS mounted filesystems (previously was just VMFS)

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_vasa - Manage VMware Virtual Volumes storage provider
  • vmware_vasa_info - Gather information about vSphere VASA providers.

v3.7.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_cluster_drs_recommendations - Add the Module to apply the drs recommendations (ansible-collections#1736)
  • vmware_guest_serial_port - add support for proxyURI parameter to enable use of a virtual serial port concentrator (ansible-collections#1742)

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_cluster_drs_recommendations - Apply DRS Recommendations
  • vmware_vsan_release_catalog - Uploads the vSAN Release Catalog

v3.6.0

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vsan_health_silent_checks - Silence vSAN health checks

v3.5.0

Major Changes

Minor Changes

  • vmware_migrate_vmk - Improve error handling (ansible-collections#1118).
  • vmware_tag - Allow to use category names for tag management (ansible-collections#1614).
  • vmware_tag_manager - Improve performance of tag attachments and detachments (ansible-collections#1603).
  • vmware_tools - ansible_vmware_guest_uuid added for easier use of vmware_tools connection plugin with vmware_vm_inventory plugin
  • vmware_vm_info - Add several parameters to skip discovering some information (ansible-collections#1682)

Bugfixes

  • vmware_cross_vc_clone - Fix SSL Thumbprint validation to ignore if destination_vcenter_validate_certs is false (ansible-collections#1433).
  • vmware_guest - Fixes adding new NVDIMM device issue by connecting to ESXi host (ansible-collections#1644).
  • vmware_guest_cross_vc_clone - Fix vim.fault.NotAuthenticated issue (ansible-collections#1223).
  • vmware_guest_cross_vc_clone - New parameter timeout in order to allow clone running longer than 1 hour
  • vmware_tag - Fix a performance issue during tag processing (ansible-collections#1603).

New Modules

  • vmware_vsan_hcl_db - Manages the vSAN Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) database

v3.4.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

v3.3.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

  • vmware_cluster_dpm - Fix an issue that the slider and the values of the host_power_action_rate works invertet in the vCenter
  • vmware_cluster_drs - Fix drs_vmotion_rate so that the value corresponds to the vCenter UI. Previously, choosing 1 / 2 configured a migration threshold of 5 / 4 and vice versa (ansible-collections#1542).
  • vmware_guest - Fix check mode (ansible-collections#1272).
  • vmware_host_lockdown_exceptions - Avoid setting exception users to what they already are (ansible-collections#1585).
  • vmware_tools - Fix an issue with pyVmomi 8.0.0.1 (ansible-collections#1578).

New Modules

  • vmware_guest_vgpu_info - Gather information about vGPU profiles of the specified virtual machine in the given vCenter infrastructure

v3.2.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_custom_attribute - Manage custom attributes definitions
  • vmware_custom_attribute_manager - Manage custom attributes from VMware for the given vSphere object

v3.1.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Add deprecaded securityPolicyOverrideAllowed because without it make problems if securityPolicyOverrideAllowed and macManagementOverrideAllowed has not the same value (ansible-collections#1508)
  • vmware_guest - Adding script_text parameter to execute scripts in Linux guests (ansible-collections#1485).
  • vmware_host_lockdown - Add the ability to enable strict lockdown mode (ansible-collections#1514).
  • vmware_host_lockdown - Add two new choices for state, disabled and normal, to replace absent and present. Please note that absent and present will be removed in the next major release (ansible-collections#1514).
  • vmware_host_lockdown - Replace deprecated vSphere API calls (ansible-collections#1514).

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_host_lockdown_exceptions - Manage Lockdown Mode Exception Users

v3.0.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_guest_disk - Adding iolimit modifications of an existing disk without changing size (ansible-collections#1466).

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

  • Removed support for ansible-core version < 2.13.0.
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Add a new sub-option inherited to the in_traffic_shaping parameter. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that you have to define the setting as not inherited if you want to override it at the PG level (ansible-collections#1483).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Add a new sub-option inherited to the out_traffic_shaping parameter. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that you have to define the setting as not inherited if you want to override it at the PG level (ansible-collections#1483).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Change the type of net_flow to string to allow setting it implicitly to inherited or to keep the value as-is. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that while true or no still work, True or Off (uppercase) won't (ansible-collections#1483).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Remove the default for network_policy and add a new sub-option inherited. This means you can keep the setting as-is by not defining the parameter, but also that you have to define the setting as not inherited if you want to override it at the PG level (ansible-collections#1483).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_info - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
  • vmware_dvswitch - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
  • vmware_dvswitch_uplink_pg - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.
  • vmware_guest_boot_manager - Remove default for secure_boot_enabled parameter (ansible-collections#1461).
  • vmware_vm_config_option - Dict item names in result are changed from strings joined with spaces to strings joined with underlines, e.g. Guest fullname is changed to guest_fullname (ansible-collections#1268).
  • vmware_vspan_session - Remove support for vSphere API less than 6.7.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • vca_fw - The deprecated module vca_fw has been removed.
  • vca_nat - The deprecated module vca_nat has been removed.
  • vca_vapp - The deprecated module vca_vapp has been removed.
  • vmware_dns_config - The deprecated module vmware_dns_config has been removed, you can use vmware_host_dns instead.
  • vmware_guest_network - The deprecated parameter networks has been removed, use loops to handle multiple interfaces (ansible-collections#1459).
  • vmware_guest_vnc - The deprecated module vmware_guest_vnc has been removed. The VNC support has been dropped with vSphere 7 and later (ansible-collections#1454).
  • vmware_host_firewall_manager - The module doesn't accept a list for allowed_hosts anymore, use a dict instead. Additionally, all_ip is now a required sub-option of allowed_hosts (ansible-collections#1463).
  • vsphere_copy - The deprecated parameters host and login have been removed. Use hostname and username instead (ansible-collections#1456).

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_datastore - Configure Datastores

v2.9.1

Bugfixes

  • 2.9.0 wasn't released correctly, some changes are missing from the package. Releasing 2.9.1 to fix this.

v2.9.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

v2.8.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

v2.7.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

v2.6.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_vmotion - Add the feature to use cluster and datastore cluster (storage pods) to define where the vmotion shold go. (ansible-collections#1240)

Bugfixes

v2.5.0

Minor Changes

New Modules

  • vmware_guest_vgpu - Modify vGPU video card profile of the specified virtual machine in the given vCenter infrastructure

v2.4.0

Minor Changes

v2.3.0

Major Changes

Minor Changes

  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Add the feature to configure ingress and egress traffinc shaping and netflow on the dvs portgroup. (ansible-collections#1224)
  • vmware_guest_network - Add parameters physical_function_backing, virtual_function_backing and allow_guest_os_mtu_change (ansible-collections#1218)

Bugfixes

v2.2.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_vm_info - Add the posibility to get the configuration informations of only one vm by name. (ansible-collections#1241)

Bugfixes

v2.1.0

Minor Changes

New Modules

  • vmware_host_user_manager - Manage users of ESXi

v2.0.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_export_ovf - Add a new parameter 'export_with_extraconfig' to support export extra config options in ovf (ansible-collections#1161).

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

  • The collection now requires at least ansible-core 2.11.0. Ansible 3 and before, and ansible-base versions are no longer supported.
  • vmware_cluster_drs - The default for enable has been changed from false to true.
  • vmware_cluster_drs - The parameter alias enable_drs has been removed, use enable instead.
  • vmware_cluster_ha - The default for enable has been changed from false to true.
  • vmware_cluster_ha - The parameter alias enable_ha has been removed, use enable instead.
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - The default for enable has been changed from false to true.
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - The parameter alias enable_vsan has been removed, use enable instead.
  • vmware_guest - Virtualization Based Security has some requirements (nested_virt, secure_boot and iommu) that the module silently enabled. They have to be enabled explicitly now.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • vcenter_extension_facts - The deprecated module vcenter_extension_facts has been removed, use vcenter_extension_info instead.
  • vmware_about_facts - The deprecated module vmware_about_facts has been removed, use vmware_about_info instead.
  • vmware_category_facts - The deprecated module vmware_category_facts has been removed, use vmware_category_info instead.
  • vmware_cluster - Remove DRS configuration in favour of module vmware_cluster_drs.
  • vmware_cluster - Remove HA configuration in favour of module vmware_cluster_ha.
  • vmware_cluster - Remove VSAN configuration in favour of module vmware_cluster_vsan.
  • vmware_cluster_facts - The deprecated module vmware_cluster_facts has been removed, use vmware_cluster_info instead.
  • vmware_datastore_facts - The deprecated module vmware_datastore_facts has been removed, use vmware_datastore_info instead.
  • vmware_drs_group_facts - The deprecated module vmware_drs_group_facts has been removed, use vmware_drs_group_info instead.
  • vmware_drs_rule_facts - The deprecated module vmware_drs_rule_facts has been removed, use vmware_drs_rule_info instead.
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - The deprecated parameter portgroup_type has been removed, use port_binding instead.
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_facts - The deprecated module vmware_dvs_portgroup_facts has been removed, use vmware_dvs_portgroup_info instead.
  • vmware_guest_boot_facts - The deprecated module vmware_guest_boot_facts has been removed, use vmware_guest_boot_info instead.
  • vmware_guest_customization_facts - The deprecated module vmware_guest_customization_facts has been removed, use vmware_guest_customization_info instead.
  • vmware_guest_disk_facts - The deprecated module vmware_guest_disk_facts has been removed, use vmware_guest_disk_info instead.
  • vmware_guest_facts - The deprecated module vmware_guest_facts has been removed, use vmware_guest_info instead.
  • vmware_guest_snapshot_facts - The deprecated module vmware_guest_snapshot_facts has been removed, use vmware_guest_snapshot_info instead.
  • vmware_host_capability_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_capability_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_capability_info instead.
  • vmware_host_config_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_config_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_config_info instead.
  • vmware_host_dns_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_dns_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_dns_info instead.
  • vmware_host_feature_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_feature_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_feature_info instead.
  • vmware_host_firewall_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_firewall_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_firewall_info instead.
  • vmware_host_ntp_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_ntp_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_ntp_info instead.
  • vmware_host_package_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_package_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_package_info instead.
  • vmware_host_service_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_service_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_service_info instead.
  • vmware_host_ssl_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_ssl_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_ssl_info instead.
  • vmware_host_vmhba_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_vmhba_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_vmhba_info instead.
  • vmware_host_vmnic_facts - The deprecated module vmware_host_vmnic_facts has been removed, use vmware_host_vmnic_info instead.
  • vmware_local_role_facts - The deprecated module vmware_local_role_facts has been removed, use vmware_local_role_info instead.
  • vmware_local_user_facts - The deprecated module vmware_local_user_facts has been removed, use vmware_local_user_info instead.
  • vmware_portgroup_facts - The deprecated module vmware_portgroup_facts has been removed, use vmware_portgroup_info instead.
  • vmware_resource_pool_facts - The deprecated module vmware_resource_pool_facts has been removed, use vmware_resource_pool_info instead.
  • vmware_tag_facts - The deprecated module vmware_tag_facts has been removed, use vmware_tag_info instead.
  • vmware_target_canonical_facts - The deprecated module vmware_target_canonical_facts has been removed, use vmware_target_canonical_info instead.
  • vmware_vm_facts - The deprecated module vmware_vm_facts has been removed, use vmware_vm_info instead.
  • vmware_vmkernel_facts - The deprecated module vmware_vmkernel_facts has been removed, use vmware_vmkernel_info instead.
  • vmware_vmkernel_ip_config - The deprecated module vmware_vmkernel_ip_config has been removed, use vmware_vmkernel instead.
  • vmware_vswitch_facts - The deprecated module vmware_vswitch_facts has been removed, use vmware_vswitch_info instead.

Bugfixes

  • Various modules and plugins - use vendored version of distutils.version included in ansible-core 2.12 if available. This avoids breakage when distutils is removed from the standard library of Python 3.12. Note that ansible-core 2.11, ansible-base 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 are right now not compatible with Python 3.12, hence this fix does not target these ansible-core/-base/2.9 versions.
  • create_nic - add advanced SR-IOV options from the VMware API (PCI dev PF/VF backing and guest OS MTU change)
  • vcenter_folder - fixed folders search collision issue (ansible-collections#1112).
  • vmware_guest_network - fix a bug that can crash the module due to an uncaught exception (ansible-collections#25).

v1.17.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_datastore_info - added show_tag parameters to allow datastore tags to be read in a uniform way across _info modules (ansible-collections#1085).
  • vmware_guest_disk - Added a new key 'cluster_disk' which allows you to use a filename originating from a VM with an RDM.
  • vmware_guest_disk - Added bus_sharing as an option for SCSI devices.
  • vmware_guest_disk - Enabled the use of up to 64 disks on a paravirtual SCSI controller when the hardware is version 14 or higher.
  • vmware_guest_sendkey - added additional USB scan codes for HOME and END.
  • vmware_host_scanhba - add rescan_vmfs parameter to allow rescaning for new VMFS volumes. Also add rescan_hba parameter with default true to allow for not rescaning HBAs as this might be very slow. (ansible-collections#479)
  • vmware_host_snmp - implement setting syscontact and syslocation (ansible-collections#1044).
  • vmware_rest_client module_util - added function get_tags_for_datastore for convenient tag collection (ansible-collections#1085).

Bugfixes

  • vmware_guest - when customization.password is not defined, the Administrator password is made empty instead of setting it to string 'None' (ansible-collections#1017).

v1.16.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_guest_tpm - Add or remove vTPM device for specified VM.

v1.15.0

Minor Changes

Deprecated Features

Bugfixes

  • Fix a bug that prevented enabling VSAN on more than one vmk, risking splitting the whole cluster during interface migration scenarios (ansible-collections#891)
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - Fix deploy ovf issue when there are more than one datacenter in VC (ansible-collections#164).
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - fixed to display suitable the error when not exist an ovf file path (ansible-collections#1065).
  • vmware_guest_powerstate - handle 'present' state as 'poweredon' (ansible-collections#1033).
  • vmware_guest_tools_wait - add documentation about datacenter parameter (ansible-collections#870).
  • vmware_object_rename - fixed an issue that an error has occurred when getting than 1,000 objects (ansible-collections#1010).
  • vmware_vcenter_settings_info - fix to return all VCSA settings when setting vsphere to the schema and not specifying the properties (ansible-collections#1050).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - remove erroneous ansible_host condition (ansible-collections#975).

New Modules

  • vmware_vm_config_option - Return supported guest ID list and VM recommended config option for specific guest OS

v1.14.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_host_service_manager - Introducing a new state "unchanged" to allow defining startup policy without defining service state or automatically starting it (ansible-collections#916).

Bugfixes

v1.13.0

Minor Changes

  • vm_device_helper - Add new functions for create, remove or reconfigure virutal NVDIMM device (ansible-collections#853).
  • vmware - the scenario guides from Ansible repo migrated to collection repo.
  • vmware_guest - Add new parameter 'nvdimm' for add, remove or reconfigure virutal NVDIMM device of virtual machine (ansible-collections#853).
  • vmware_guest_disk - add the capability to create and remove RDM disks from Virtual Machines.
  • vmware_guest_snapshot_info - add quiesced status in VM snapshot info (ansible-collections#978)
  • vmware_host_datastore - added a new parameter to expand a datastore capacity (ansible-collections#915).
  • vmware_host_inventory - filter hosts before templating hostnames (ansible-collections#850).
  • vmware_portgroup - Disable traffic shaping without defining traffic_shaping.average_bandwidth, traffic_shaping.burst_size and traffic_shaping.peak_bandwidth (ansible-collections#955).
  • vmware_spbm - Add a new function 'find_storage_profile_by_name' (ansible-collections#853).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - filter guests before templating hostnames (ansible-collections#850).

Bugfixes

  • vmware - changed to use from isinstance to type in the if condition of option_diff method (ansible-collections#983).
  • vmware_guest - add message for deploy_vm method when it fails with timeout error while customizing the VM (ansible-collections#933).
  • vmware_guest_instant_clone - fixed an issue that the module should be required the guestinfo_vars parameter when executing (ansible-collections#962).
  • vmware_guest_powerstate - added the datacenter parameter to fix an issue that datacenter key error has been occurring (ansible-collections#924).
  • vmware_host_datastore - fixed an issue that the right error message isn't displayed (ansible-collections#976).

v1.12.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware - add processing to answer if the answer question is occurred in starting the vm (ansible-collections#821).
  • vmware - find_folder_by_fqpn added to support specifying folders by their fully qualified path name, defined as I(datacenter)/I(folder_type)/subfolder1/subfolder2/.
  • vmware - folder field default changed from None to vm.
  • vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - storage_provisioning default changed from None to thin, in keeping with VMware best practices for flash storage.
  • vmware_dvs_host - implement adding pNICs to LAGs (ansible-collections#112).
  • vmware_guest_instant_clone - added a new option to wait until the vmware tools start (ansible-collections#904).
  • vmware_guest_instant_clone - added a reboot processing to reflect the customization parameters to an instant clone vm (ansible-collections#904).
  • vmware_guest_powerstate - Add an option that answers whether it was copied or moved the vm if the vm is blocked (ansible-collections#821).
  • vmware_host_inventory - support api access via proxy (ansible-collections#817).
  • vmware_object_role_permission_info - added principal to provide list of individual permissions on specified entity (ansible-collections#868).
  • vmware_rest_client - support proxy feature for module using this API (ansible-collections#848).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - support api access via proxy (ansible-collections#817).

Bugfixes

  • vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - no longer requires host, datastore, resource_pool.
  • vmware_content_deploy_xxx - deploys to recommended datastore in specified datastore_cluster.
  • vmware_content_deploy_xxx - honors folder specified by fully qualified path name.
  • vmware_guest - Use hostname parameter in customization only if value is not None (ansible-collections#655)

v1.11.0

Major Changes

  • vmware_object_custom_attributes_info - added a new module to gather custom attributes of an object (ansible-collections#851).

Minor Changes

  • vmware - added a new method to search Managed Object based on moid and object type (ansible-collections#879).
  • vmware_dvswitch - Dynamically check the DVS versions vCenter supports (ansible-collections#839).
  • vmware_dvswitch - Implement network_policy parameter with suboptions promiscuous, forged_transmits and mac_changes (ansible-collections#833).
  • vmware_guest - Make the requirements for Virtualization Based Security explicit (ansible-collections#816).
  • vmware_guest - New parameter secure_boot to manage (U)EFI secure boot on VMs (ansible-collections#816).
  • vmware_guest - New parameter vvtd to manage Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O on VMs (ansible-collections#816).
  • vmware_guest_controller - added bus_sharing property to scsi controllers (ansible-collections#878).
  • vmware_guest_instant_clone - added the the guestinfo_vars parameter to provide GuestOS Customization functionality in instant cloned VM (ansible-collections#796).
  • vmware_host_custom_attributes - new module (ansible-collections#838).
  • vmware_host_inventory - added ability for username to be a vault encrypted variable, and updated documentation to reflect ability for username and password to be vaulted. (ansible-collections#854).
  • vmware_host_passthrough - added a new module to enable or disable passthrough of PCI devices with ESXi host has (ansible-collections#872).
  • vmware_host_tcpip_stacks - added ipv6_gateway parameter and nsx_overlay as an alias of vxlan (ansible-collections#834).
  • vmware_host_vmnic_info - add LLDP information to output when applicable (ansible-collections#828).
  • vmware_object_custom_attributes_info - added a new parameter to support moid (ansible-collections#879).
  • vmware_vcenter_settings.py - Add advanced_settings parameter (ansible-collections#819).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - added ability for username to be a vault encrypted variable, and updated documentation to reflect ability for username and password to be vaulted. (ansible-collections#854).

Bugfixes

  • vmware - fix that the return value should be returned None if moId doesn't exist of a virtual machine (ansible-collections#867).
  • vmware_vmotion - implement new parameter named destination_datacenter to fix failure to move storage when datastores are shared across datacenters (ansible-collections#858)

New Plugins

Inventory

  • vmware_host_inventory - VMware ESXi hostsystem inventory source

New Modules

  • vmware_host_custom_attributes - Manage custom attributes from VMware for the given ESXi host
  • vmware_host_passthrough - Manage PCI device passthrough settings on host
  • vmware_object_custom_attributes_info - Gather custom attributes of an object
  • vmware_object_role_permission_info - Gather information about object's permissions
  • vmware_recommended_datastore - Returns the recommended datastore from a SDRS-enabled datastore cluster

v1.10.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_cluster_drs - Make enable_drs an alias of enable and add a warning that the default will change from false to true in a future version (ansible-collections#766)
  • vmware_cluster_ha - Make enable_ha an alias of enable and add a warning that the default will change from false to true in a future version (ansible-collections#766)
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - Make enable_vsan an alias of enable and add a warning that the default will change from false to true in a future version (ansible-collections#766)
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Implement 'elastic' port group configuration (ansible-collections#410).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Implement MAC learning configuration (ansible-collections#644).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Implement configuration of active and standby uplinks (ansible-collections#709).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Remove default for teaming_policy.inbound_policy (ansible-collections#743).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_info - Return information about MAC learning configuration (ansible-collections#644).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_info - Return information about uplinks (ansible-collections#709).
  • vmware_guest - add more documentation about is_template (ansible-collections#794).
  • vmware_host_iscsi_info - added a list(detected_iscsi_drives) of detected iscsi drives to the return value after set an iscsi config (ansible-collections#729).
  • vmware_tag - modified the category_id parameter to required (ansible-collections#790).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - set default to True for with_nested_properties (ansible-collections#712).

Bugfixes

  • vmware - fixed a bug that the guest_guestion in the facts doesn't convert to the dictionary (ansible-collections#825).
  • vmware - handle exception raised in get_all_objs and find_object_by_name which occurs due to multiple parallel operations (ansible-collections#791).
  • vmware_cluster_info - Fix a bug that returned enabled_vsan and vsan_auto_claim_storage as lists instead of just true or false (ansible-collections#805).
  • vmware_evc_mode - fixed an issue that evc_mode is required when the state parameter set to absent (ansible-collections#764).
  • vmware_guest - skip customvalues while deploying VM on a standalone ESXi (ansible-collections#721).
  • vmware_host_iscsi_info - fixed an issue that an error occurs gathering iSCSI information against an ESXi Host with iSCSI disabled (ansible-collections#729).
  • vmware_vm_info - handle vApp parent logic (ansible-collections#777).
  • vmware_vm_shell - handle exception raised while performing the operation (ansible-collections#732).
  • vmware_vm_storage_policy_info - fixed an issue that the module can't get storage policy info when the policy has the tag base rules (ansible-collections#788).
  • vmware_vmotion - Provide an meaningful error message when providing a bad ESXi node as destination_host (ansible-collections#804).

New Modules

  • vmware_host_tcpip_stacks - Manage the TCP/IP Stacks configuration of ESXi host

v1.9.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_guest_instant_clone - supported esxi_hostname parameter as an alias (ansible-collections#745).
  • vmware_resource_pool - Add parent_resource_pool parameter which is mutually exclusive with cluster and esxi_hostname (ansible-collections#717)
  • vmware_vm_inventory - add an example of FQDN as hostname (ansible-collections#678).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - skip disconnected VMs.

Deprecated Features

Security Fixes

  • vmware_host_iscsi - mark the chap_secret parameter as no_log to avoid accidental leaking of secrets in logs (ansible-collections#715).
  • vmware_host_iscsi - mark the mutual_chap_secret parameter as no_log to avoid accidental leaking of secrets in logs (ansible-collections#715).
  • vmware_vc_infraprofile_info - mark the decryption_key parameter as no_log to avoid accidental leaking of secrets in logs (ansible-collections#715).
  • vmware_vc_infraprofile_info - mark the encryption_key parameter as no_log to avoid accidental leaking of secrets in logs (ansible-collections#715).

Bugfixes

  • vmware - add the default value of parameter resource_pool_name in the find_resource_pool_by_name function (ansible-collections#670).
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - fixed a bug that made the module fail when advanced_options is not set (ansible-collections#728).
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - fixed an issue that a return value hasn't the instance key when the power_on parameter is False (ansible-collections#698).
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - fixed an issue that deploy template in datacenter with more than one standalone hosts (ansible-collections#670).
  • vmware_guest - fixed a bug that made the module fail when disk.controller_number or disk.unit_number are 0 (ansible-collections#703).
  • vmware_local_user_manager - fixed to require local_user_password when the state is present (ansible-collections#724).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - Skip over ghost tags attached to virtual machines (ansible-collections#681).

New Modules

  • vmware_guest_instant_clone - Instant Clone VM
  • vmware_guest_storage_policy - Set VM Home and disk(s) storage policy profiles.

v1.8.0

Minor Changes

Bugfixes

  • vcenter_license - fixed a bug that the license doesn't assign in VCSA 7.0u1c (ansible-collections#643).
  • vmware - fixed an issue that a port group name doesn't compare correctly in the find_network_by_name function (ansible-collections#661).
  • vmware_category - append namespace to associable types (ansible-collections#579).
  • vmware_cluster_ha - fix enabling APD or PDL response (ansible-collections#676).
  • vmware_cluster_info - return VSAN status correctly (ansible-collections#673).
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - fixed an issue that an error message doesn't show when not finding a port group name (ansible-collections#661).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - fixed the issue that the VLAN configuration isn't compared correctly in the module (ansible-collections#638).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_find - fixed to decode the special characters URL-encoded in the dvs port group name (ansible-collections#648).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_info - fixed to decode the special characters URL-encoded in the dvs port group name (ansible-collections#648).
  • vmware_guest - add support for advanced settings in vmware_guest (ansible-collections#602).
  • vmware_guest_register_operation - fixed an issue that an error has been occurring when not specifying a datacenter name (ansible-collections#693).
  • vmware_vm_storage_policy - fixed an issue that an error for pyvmomi(SDK) occurred when a tag or category doesn't exist (ansible-collections#682).

v1.7.0

Minor Changes

Deprecated Features

  • vmware_host_firewall_manager - the creation of new rule with no allowed_ip entry in the allowed_hosts dictionary won't be allowed after 2.0.0 release.

Bugfixes

New Modules

  • vmware_drs_group_manager - Manage VMs and Hosts in DRS group.
  • vmware_first_class_disk - Manage VMware vSphere First Class Disks

v1.6.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_guest_disk - add new parameters controller_type and controller_number for supporting SATA and NVMe disk (ansible-collections#196).
  • vmware_guest_file_operation - provide useful error message when exception occurs (ansible-collections#485).
  • vmware_guest_network - add support for private vlan id (ansible-collections#511).
  • vmware_host - added a new state option, the disconnected (ansible-collections#589).
  • vmware_host_facts - Add ESXi host current time info in returned host facts(ansible-collections#527)
  • vmware_vsan_health_info - add new parameter to support datacenter.

Bugfixes

  • Fix remove hosts from cluster to use cluster name variable
  • Fix vSwitch0 default port group removal to run against all hosts
  • For vSphere 7.0u1, add steps to tests to remove vCLS VMs before removing datastore
  • vmware_cluster - consider datacenter name while creating cluster (ansible-collections#575).
  • vmware_cluster_drs - consider datacenter name while managing cluster (ansible-collections#575).
  • vmware_cluster_ha - consider datacenter name while managing cluster (ansible-collections#575).
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - consider datacenter name while managing cluster (ansible-collections#575).
  • vmware_dvswitch - fix an issue with vSphere 7 when no switch_version is defined (ansible-collections#576)
  • vmware_guest - fix an issue with vSphere 7 when adding several virtual disks and / or vNICs (ansible-collections#545)
  • vmware_guest - handle computer name in existing VM customization (ansible-collections#570).
  • vmware_guest_disk - fix an issue with vSphere 7 when adding several virtual disks and (ansible-collections#373)
  • vmware_host_logbundle - handle fetch_url status before attempting to read response.
  • vmware_host_ntp - fix an issue with disconnected hosts (ansible-collections#539)
  • vsphere_copy - handle unboundlocalerror when timeout occurs (ansible-collections#554).

New Modules

  • vcenter_domain_user_group_info - Gather user or group information of a domain

v1.5.1

Minor Changes

v1.5.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - added new parameter "content_library" to get the OVF template from (ansible-collections#514).
  • vmware_drs_group - code refactor (ansible-collections#475).
  • vmware_guest - add documentation for networks parameters connected and start_connected (ansible-collections#507).
  • vmware_guest_controller - error handling in task exception.
  • vmware_resource_pool - manage resource pools on ESXi hosts (ansible-collections#492).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - skip inaccessible vm configuration.

Bugfixes

v1.4.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_category - add additional associable object types (ansible-collections#454).
  • vmware_dvswitch - Added support to create vds version 7.0.0.
  • vmware_guest - Fixed issue of checking hardware version when set VBS(ansible-collections#351)
  • vmware_guest - Fixed issue of comparing latest hardware version str type with int(ansible-collections#381)
  • vmware_guest_info - added a new parameter to gather detailed information about tag from the given virtual machine.
  • vmware_guest_video - gather facts for video devices even if the virtual machine is poweredoff (ansible-collections#408).
  • vmware_object_role_permission - add missing required fields of hostname, username, and password to module examples (ansible-collections#426).
  • vmware_resource_pool - add new allocation shares options for cpu and memory(ansible-collections#461).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - support for categories and tag, category relation (ansible-collections#350).

Bugfixes

  • Fixed the find_obj method in the module_utils/vmware.py to handle an object name using special characters that URL-decoded(ansible-collections#460).
  • vmware_cluster_info - return tag related information (ansible-collections#453).
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - fixed network mapping in multi-datacenter environments
  • vmware_folder_info - added the flat_folder_info in the return value.
  • vmware_guest_sendkey - add sleep_time parameter to add delay in-between keys sent (ansible-collections#404).
  • vmware_resource_pool - added a changing feature of resource pool config (ansible-collections#469).
  • vmware_resource_pool - fixed that always updates occur bug on vCenter Server even when not changing resource pool config (ansible-collections#482).
  • vmware_tag_manager - added new parameter 'moid' to identify VMware object to tag (ansible-collections#430).
  • vmware_vm_info - added the moid information in the return value.
  • vmware_vm_inventory - ensure self.port is integer (ansible-collections#488).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - improve plugin performance (ansible-collections#434).
  • vmware_vm_vm_drs_rule - report changes in check mode (ansible-collections#440).

v1.3.0

Minor Changes

  • module_utils/vmware - Ignore leading and trailing whitespace when searching for objects (ansible-collections#335)
  • vmware_cluster_info - Fixed issue of a cluster name doesn't URL-decode(ansible-collections#366)
  • vmware_guest - takes now into account the esxi_hostname argument to create the vm on the right host according to the doc (ansible-collections#359).
  • vmware_guest_custom_attributes - Fixed issue when trying to set a VM custom attribute when there are custom attributes with the same name for other object types (ansible-collections#412).
  • vmware_guest_customization_info - Fixed to get values properly for LinuxPrep and SysPrep parameters(ansible-collections#368)
  • vmware_guest_info - Fix get tags API call (ansible-collections#403).
  • vmware_guest_network - Fixed to port group changes to work properly and NSX-T port group supported(ansible-collections#401).
  • vmware_host_iscsi_info - a new module for the ESXi hosts that is dedicated to gathering information of the iSCSI configuration(ansible-collections#402).
  • vmware_vm_inventory - update requirements doc.

Bugfixes

  • module_utils/vmware.py handles an object name using special characters that URL-decoded(ansible-collections#380).

v1.2.0

Minor Changes

  • vmware_cluster_ha - treat truthy advanced options ('true', 'false') as strings instead of booleans (ansible-collections#286).
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - implement advanced VSAN options (ansible-collections#260).
  • vmware_cluster_vsan - requires the vSAN Management SDK, which needs to be downloaded from VMware and installed manually.
  • vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - requires the resource_pool parameter.
  • vmware_guest_disk - add backing_uuid value to return (ansible-collections#348).
  • vmware_guest_serial_port - ensure we can run the module two times in a row without unexpected side effect(ansible-collections#358).

Deprecated Features

  • vmware_guest - deprecate specifying CDROM configuration as a dict, instead use a list.

Bugfixes

  • vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - fixed issue where wrong resource pool identifier was returned when same resource pool name was used across clusters in the same datacenter (ansible-collections#363)
  • vmware_vmkernel - fixed issue where Repl and ReplNFC services were not being identified as enabled on a vmk interface (ansible-collections#362).

v1.1.0

Minor Changes

  • Added module to be able to create, update, or delete VMware VM storage policies for virtual machines.
  • vmware_cluster_info - added properties and schema options and supported the getting of clusters resource summary information.
  • vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - handle exception while deploying VM using OVF template.
  • vmware_content_deploy_template - handle exception while deploying VM (ansible-collections#182).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Added support for distributed port group with private VLAN.
  • vmware_guest_snapshot_info - Document that folder is required if the VM name is defined (ansible-collections#243)
  • vmware_host_iscsi - a new module for the ESXi hosts that is dedicated to the management of the iSCSI configuration
  • vmware_migrate_vmk - allow migration from a VMware vSphere Distrubuted Switch to a ESXi Standard Switch
  • vmware_vcenter_settings_info - a new module for gather information about vCenter settings

Breaking Changes / Porting Guide

  • vmware_datastore_maintenancemode - now returns datastore_status instead of Ansible internal key results.
  • vmware_guest_custom_attributes - does not require VM name which was a required parameter for releases prior to Ansible 2.10.
  • vmware_guest_find - the datacenter option has been removed.
  • vmware_host_kernel_manager - now returns host_kernel_status instead of Ansible internal key results.
  • vmware_host_ntp - now returns host_ntp_status instead of Ansible internal key results.
  • vmware_host_service_manager - now returns host_service_status instead of Ansible internal key results.
  • vmware_tag - now returns tag_status instead of Ansible internal key results.
  • vmware_vmkernel - the options ip_address and subnet_mask have been removed; use the suboptions ip_address and subnet_mask of the network option instead.

Deprecated Features

  • The vmware_dns_config module has been deprecated and will be removed in a later release; use vmware_host_dns instead.
  • vca - vca_fw, vca_nat, vca_app are deprecated since these modules rely on deprecated part of Pyvcloud library.
  • vmware_tag_info - in a later release, the module will not return tag_facts since it does not return multiple tags with the same name and different category id. To maintain the existing behavior use tag_info which is a list of tag metadata.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • vmware_portgroup - removed 'inbound_policy', and 'rolling_order' deprecated options.

Bugfixes

v1.0.0

Minor Changes

  • A vmware module_defaults group has been added to simplify parameters for multiple VMware tasks. This group includes all VMware modules.
  • Add a flag 'force_upgrade' to force VMware tools upgrade installation (ansible-collections#75).
  • Add powerstates to match vmware_guest_powerstate module with vmware_guest (ansible/ansible#55653).
  • Added a timeout parameter wait_for_ip_address_timeout for wait_for_ip_address for longer-running tasks in vmware_guest.
  • Added missing backing_disk_mode information about disk which was removed by mistake in vmware_guest_disk_info.
  • Correct datatype for state in vmware_host_lockdown module.
  • Correct example from doc of vmware_local_role_info.py to match the change of returned structure.
  • Correct example from doc of vmware_local_role_info.py to match the change of returned structure.
  • Handle exceptions raised in connect_to_vsphere_client API.
  • Minor typo fixes in vmware_httpapi related modules and module_utils.
  • Removed ANSIBLE_METADATA from all the modules.
  • Return additional information about hosts inside the cluster using vmware_cluster_info.
  • Update Module examples with FQCN.
  • Update README.md for installing any third party required Python libraries using pip (ansible-collections#154).
  • add storage_provisioning type into vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template.
  • add vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template module for creating VMs from OVF templates
  • new code module for new feature for operations of VCenter infra profile config.
  • vmware.py - Only add configured network interfaces to facts.
  • vmware_cluster_drs - Implemented DRS advanced settings (ansible/ansible#66217)
  • vmware_cluster_ha - Implemented HA advanced settings (ansible/ansible#61421)
  • vmware_cluster_ha - Remove a wrong parameter from an example in the documentation.
  • vmware_content_deploy_template - added new field "content_library" to search template inside the specified content library.
  • vmware_datastore_cluster - Added basic SDRS configuration (ansible/ansible#65154).
  • vmware_datastore_info - added properties and schema options.
  • vmware_datastore_maintenancemode now returns datastore_status instead of Ansible internal key results (ansible/ansible#62083).
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_info - Include the value of the Portgroup key in the result
  • vmware_dvswitch now returns the UUID of the switch
  • vmware_dvswitch_info also returns the switch UUID
  • vmware_export_ovf - increase default timeout to 30s
  • vmware_export_ovf - timeout value is actually in seconds, not minutes
  • vmware_guest - Don't search for VMDK if filename is defined.
  • vmware_guest - Extracts repeated code from configure_vapp_properties() to set_vapp_properties() in vmware_guest.py.
  • vmware_guest - add support VM creation and reconfiguration with multiple types of disk controllers and disks
  • vmware_guest - add support for create and reconfigure CDROMs attaching to SATA (ansible/ansible#42995)
  • vmware_guest - add support hardware version 17 for vSphere 7.0
  • vmware_guest_custom_attributes does not require VM name (ansible/ansible#63222).
  • vmware_guest_disk - Add destroy option which allows to remove a disk without deleting the VMDK file.
  • vmware_guest_disk - Add filename option which allows to create a disk from an existing VMDK.
  • vmware_guest_disk - add support for setting the sharing/multi-writer mode of virtual disks (ansible-collections#212)
  • vmware_guest_network - network adapters can be configured without lists
  • vmware_guest_network - network_info returns a list of dictionaries for ease of use
  • vmware_guest_network - put deprecation warning for the networks parameter
  • vmware_guest_tools_wait now exposes a timeout parameter that allow the user to adjust the timeout (second).
  • vmware_host_active_directory - Fail when there are unrecoverable problems with AD membership instead of reporting a change that doesn't take place (ansible-collections#59).
  • vmware_host_dns - New module replacing vmware_dns_config with increased functionality.
  • vmware_host_dns can now set the following empty values, domain, search_domains and dns_servers.
  • vmware_host_facts - added properties and schema options.
  • vmware_host_firewall_manager - allowed_hosts excpects a dict as parameter, list is deprecated
  • vmware_host_kernel_manager now returns host_kernel_status instead of Ansible internal key results (ansible/ansible#62083).
  • vmware_host_logbundle - new code module for a new feature for ESXi support log bundle download operation
  • vmware_host_logbundle_info - new code module for a new feature for getting manifests for ESXi support log bundle
  • vmware_host_ntp now returns host_ntp_status instead of Ansible internal key results (ansible/ansible#62083).
  • vmware_host_service_manager now returns host_service_status instead of Ansible internal key results (ansible/ansible#62083).
  • vmware_rest_client - Added a new definition get_library_item_from_content_library_name.
  • vmware_tag now returns tag_status instead of Ansible internal key results (ansible/ansible#62083).
  • vmware_vm_inventory inventory plugin, raise more descriptive error when all template strings in hostnames fail.

Deprecated Features

  • vmware_dns_config - Deprecate in favour of new module vmware_host_dns.

Removed Features (previously deprecated)

  • vmware_guest_find - Removed deprecated datacenter option
  • vmware_vmkernel - Removed deprecated ip_address option; use sub-option ip_address in the network option instead
  • vmware_vmkernel - Removed deprecated subnet_mask option; use sub-option subnet_mask in the network option instead

Bugfixes

  • Added 'compose' and 'groups' feature in vmware_vm_inventory plugin.
  • Added keyed_groups feature in vmware_vm_inventory plugin.
  • Added support to vmware_tag_manager module for specifying tag and category as dict if any of the name contains colon (ansible/ansible#65765).
  • Check for virtualNicManager in Esxi host system before accessing properties in vmware_vmkernel_info (ansible/ansible#62772).
  • Fixed typo in vmware_guest_powerstate module (ansible/ansible#65161).
  • Handle Base64 Binary while JSON serialization in vmware_vm_inventory.
  • Handle NoneType error when accessing service system info in vmware_host_service_info module (ansible/ansible#67615).
  • Handle list items in vSphere schema while handling facts using to_json API (ansible-collections#33).
  • Handle multiple tags name with different category id in vmware_tag module (ansible/ansible#66340).
  • Handle slashes in VMware network name (ansible/ansible#64399).
  • In inventory plugin, serialize properties user specifies which are objects as dicts (ansible-collections#58).
  • In vmware_guest_network module use appropriate network while creating or reconfiguring (ansible/ansible#65968).
  • Made vmnics attributes optional when creating DVS as they are optional on the API and GUI as well.
  • VMware Guest Inventory plugin enhancements and features.
  • VMware guest inventory plugin support for filters.
  • Vmware Fix for Create overwrites a VM of same name even when the folder is different(ansible/ansible#43161)
  • vmware_content_deploy_template's cluster argument no longer fails with an error message about resource pools.
  • return correct datastore cluster placement recommendations during when adding disk using the vmware_guest_disk module
  • vmware - Ensure we can use the modules with Python < 2.7.9 or RHEL/CentOS < 7.4, this as soon as validate_certs is disabled.
  • vmware_category - fix associable datatypes (ansible-collections#197).
  • vmware_content_deploy_template - Added param content_library to the main function
  • vmware_deploy_ovf - Fixed ova deploy error occur if vm exists
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup - Implemented configuration changes on an existing Distributed vSwitch portgroup.
  • vmware_dvs_portgroup_find - Cast variable to integer for comparison.
  • vmware_guest - Add ability to upgrade the guest hardware version to latest fix issue (ansible/ansible#56273).
  • vmware_guest - Allow '-' (Dash) special char in windows DNS name.
  • vmware_guest - Exclude dvswitch_name from triggering guest os customization.
  • vmware_guest - Updated reference link to vapp_properties property
  • vmware_host_capability_facts - Fixed vSphere API legacy version errors occur in pyvmomi 7.0 and later
  • vmware_host_capability_info - Fixed vSphere API legacy version errors occur in pyvmomi 7.0 and later
  • vmware_host_facts - handle facts when ESXi hostsystem is poweredoff (ansible-collections#183).
  • vmware_host_firewall_manager - Ensure we can set rule with no allowed_hosts key (ansible/ansible#61332)
  • vmware_host_firewall_manager - Fixed creating IP specific firewall rules with Python 2 (ansible/ansible#67303)
  • vmware_host_vmhba_info - fixed node_wwn and port_wwn for FC HBA to hexadecimal format(ansible/ansible#63045).
  • vmware_vcenter_settings - Fixed when runtime_settings parameters not defined occur error(ansible/ansible#66713)
  • vmware_vcenter_statistics - Fix some corner cases like increasing some interval and decreasing another at the same time.
  • vmware_vm_inventory inventory plugin, use the port value while connecting to vCenter (ansible/ansible#64096).
  • vmware_vmkernel - Remove duplicate checks.
  • vmware_vspan_session - Extract repeated code and reduce complexity of function.