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Understanding vSphere management

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Understanding vSphere management

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In this video, I want to tell you about vSphere management. If you want the full information, have a look at the introduction for Ansible for VMware in docs.ansible.com. The thing is that managing vSphere has lots of requirements and dependencies. For that reason, I'm not going to demonstrate it here, just for the simple reason that it's It's quite hard to set up a virtualized environment for vSphere. But I can help you, tell you a little bit about the things that you need to know, so that if you need to set up vSphere, your chances of success will increase. To start with, Ansible modules for managing VMware are written on top of pyvmome. So you need to make sure that this specific software is installed using PIP3 install. PYVMOMI is also part of the vSphere Automation Python SDK. You can install that as well because it contains support for many other VMware products, and that might make it easier for you. If you want to do that, this is the PIP3 commands. Now, the next thing to���

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