- 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.
- 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).
- vcenter_domain_user_group_info - Gather user or group information of a domain
- vmware_resource_pool - relabel the change introduced in 1.5.0 as Minor Changes (ansible-collections#540).
- 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.
- vmware_cluster_ha - added APD and PDL configuration (ansible-collections#451).
- vmware_deploy_ovf - fixed an UnboundLocalError for variable 'name' in check mode (ansible-collections#499).
- vmware_object_role_permission - add support for role name presented in vSphere Web UI (ansible-collections#436).
- 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).
- Fixed the find_obj method in the
module_utils/vmware.pyto 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).
- 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_hostnameargument 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.
module_utils/vmware.pyhandles an object name using special characters that URL-decoded(ansible-collections#380).
- 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).
- vmware_guest - deprecate specifying CDROM configuration as a dict, instead use a list.
- 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).
- Added module to be able to create, update, or delete VMware VM storage policies for virtual machines.
- vmware_cluster_info - added
propertiesandschemaoptions 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
- vmware_datastore_maintenancemode - now returns
datastore_statusinstead of Ansible internal keyresults. - 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
datacenteroption has been removed. - vmware_host_kernel_manager - now returns
host_kernel_statusinstead of Ansible internal keyresults. - vmware_host_ntp - now returns
host_ntp_statusinstead of Ansible internal keyresults. - vmware_host_service_manager - now returns
host_service_statusinstead of Ansible internal keyresults. - vmware_tag - now returns
tag_statusinstead of Ansible internal keyresults. - vmware_vmkernel - the options
ip_addressandsubnet_maskhave been removed; use the suboptionsip_addressandsubnet_maskof thenetworkoption instead.
- 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_factssince it does not return multiple tags with the same name and different category id. To maintain the existing behavior usetag_infowhich is a list of tag metadata.
- vmware_portgroup - removed 'inbound_policy', and 'rolling_order' deprecated options.
- vmware_content_deploy_ovf_template - use datastore_id in deployment_spec (ansible-collections#287).
- vmware_dvs_portgroup_find - Fix comparison between str and int on method vlan_match (ansible-collections#52).
- vmware_guest - cdrom.controller_number, cdrom.unit_number are handled as integer. (ansible-collections#274).
- vmware_vm_inventory - CustomFieldManager is not present in ESXi, handle this condition (ansible-collections#269).
- 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
propertiesandschemaoptions. - 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
keyin 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
timeoutparameter 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_domainsanddns_servers. - vmware_host_facts - added
propertiesandschemaoptions. - vmware_host_firewall_manager -
allowed_hostsexcpects 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
hostnamesfail.
- vmware_dns_config - Deprecate in favour of new module vmware_host_dns.
- vmware_guest_find - Removed deprecated
datacenteroption - vmware_vmkernel - Removed deprecated
ip_addressoption; use sub-option ip_address in the network option instead - vmware_vmkernel - Removed deprecated
subnet_maskoption; use sub-option subnet_mask in the network option instead
- 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_certsis 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_hostskey (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.