ansible-vsphere

This is a playbook (deploy.yml) and accompanying roles that deploy VMware ESXi/vSphere to Dell PowerEdge Rx40 hardware.

The playbook will:

1. update the DRAC(s) to the current software available from Dell
2. configure a management host (usually the Ansible controller) to work from
3. setup an NFS server to share software to the ESXi nodes (controller)
4. customize the ESXi installation ISO image to self-install
5. install ESXi on all nodes
6. deploy vCenter onto the first node and create the vSphere datacenter and cluster

Customize the following files to your needs:

1. create a hosts file based on the hosts-example for your inventory
2. create a group_vars/all.yml file based on the group_vars/all_yml.example file
3. create a host_vars/<hostname> file, for each ESXi node, based on the host_vars/host-example file

NOTES:

1. the deploy.yml playbook will only update DRAC firmware when the extra_var drac=true is passed to it
2. the deploy.yml playbook will only wipe and re-install the ESXi nodes when the wipe=true extra_var is passed to it