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Ansible: How to remove & register a VM from VCenter?

I need to do a vmotion and I would need:

  • Unregister machine from VMWare VCenter.
  • Register that machine into another cluster.

Is it possible to do with an Ansible module?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

  • Among the same cluster, have you tried : vmware_vmotion – Move a virtual machine using vMotion, and/or its vmdks using storage vMotion ?

    but you're talking about 'another cluster' so i think it won't work : as said in Live Migration of Virtual Machines

    VMware vSphere vMotion is a zero downtime live migration of workloads 
from one server to another. This capability is possible across 
vSwitches, Clusters, and even Clouds

    So you are not doing vMotion by migrating from a cluster to another (you will have down time).

    What you want to do is stop vm, download vmdk files from a cluster, upload it to another, and restore a vm with it (but i never did that, i only have one cluster)