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+---
+- name: Playbook to provision a new VM on VMware
+  hosts: all
+  gather_facts: false
+  roles:
+    - role: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
+      vars:
+        clone_from_template: false
+        clone_from_vm: false
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+---
+- name: Playbook to provision a new VM from template on VMware
+  hosts: all
+  gather_facts: false
+  roles:
+    - role: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
+      vars:
+        clone_from_template: true
+        clone_from_vm: false
diff --git a/playbooks/provision_vm/provisioning_vm_from_vm.yml b/playbooks/provision_vm/provisioning_vm_from_vm.yml
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+---
+- name: Playbook to provision a new VM from an existing VM on VMware
+  hosts: all
+  gather_facts: false
+  roles:
+    - role: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
+      vars:
+        clone_from_template: false
+        clone_from_vm: true
+
diff --git a/roles/create_vm_template/README.md b/roles/create_vm_template/README.md
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+Provision virtual machine
+================
+
+A role to provision a virtual machine, create associated resources if they don’t exist (subnets, vCPU, memory configuration, storage configuration, etc)
+This includes cloning and building from VM templates
+Boot a VM from these types:
+* Windows Server
+* RHEL8
+* RHEL9
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+vCenter logged in permission
+
+Role Variables
+--------------
+
+* **vcenter_hostname** (str): (Required) 
+* **vcenter_username** (str): (Required) 
+* **vcenter_password** (str): (Required) 
+* **vcenter_validate_certs** (str): (Required) 
+* **provision_virtual_machine_operation** (str): (Required) Operation to perform. Valid values are:
+    clone_an_existing_vm, clone_template_to_template, clone_vm_to_template, create_new_vm, create_vm_from_template,
+    deploy_from_template.
+
+Dependencies
+------------
+
+N/A
+
+Example Playbook
+----------------
+
+All the variables defined in section [Role Variables](#role-variables) can be defined inside the ``vars.yml`` file.
+
+Create a ``playbook.yml`` file like this:
+
+```
+---
+- hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: true
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Provision a VM 
+      ansible.builtin.import_role:
+        name: cloud.vmware_ops.provision_virtual_machine
+      vars:
+        aa: "{{ }}"
+```
+
+Run the playbook:
+
+```shell
+ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e "@vars.yml"
+```
+
+License
+-------
+
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
+
+See [LICENCE](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.vmware_ops/blob/main/LICENSE) to see the full text.
+
+Author Information
+------------------
+
+- ??
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+---
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+---
+# vm name or vm template
+- name: Create VM or template
+  ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "clone_vm_to_template.yml"
+
diff --git a/roles/provision_vm/README.md b/roles/provision_vm/README.md
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+# Provision virtual machine
+A role to provision a virtual machine, create associated resources if they don’t exist (subnets, vCPU, memory configuration, storage configuration, etc)
+This includes cloning and building from VM templates.
+
+
+## Requirements 
+N/A
+
+
+## Role Variables
+### Auth
+- **provision_vm_username**: (string, Required)
+  - The vSphere vCenter username.
+
+- **provision_vm_password**: (string, Required)
+  - The vSphere vCenter password.
+
+- **provision_vm_hostname**: (string, Required)
+  - The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter.
+
+- **provision_vm_validate_certs** (boolean)
+  - Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.
+
+### Provisioning a VM
+- **provision_vm_clone_from_vm** (boolean):
+    Create from an existing VM
+
+- **provision_vm_clone_from_template** (boolean):
+    Create from template VM
+
+- **provision_vm_vm_name**  (string, Required):
+    Name of the virtual machine to work with.
+    Virtual machine names in vCenter are not necessarily unique, which may be problematic, see O(name_match).
+    If multiple virtual machines with same name exists, then O(folder) is required parameter to
+    identify uniqueness of the virtual machine.
+    This parameter is required, if (state=poweredon), (state=powered-on), (state=poweredoff), (state=powered-off),
+    (state=present), (state=restarted), (state=suspended) and virtual machine does not exists.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+
+- **provision_vm_uuid**  (string):
+    UUID of the virtual machine to manage if known, this is VMware's unique identifier.
+    This is required if O(name) is not supplied.
+    If virtual machine does not exists, then this parameter is ignored.
+    Please note that a supplied UUID will be ignored on virtual machine creation, as VMware creates the UUID internally.
+
+- **provision_vm_port** (integer):
+    The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.
+    If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PORT will be used instead.
+    Default: 443
+
+- **provision_vm_proxy_host** (string):
+    Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.
+    The format is a hostname or a IP.
+    If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_HOST will be used instead.
+
+- **provision_vm_proxy_port** (integer):
+    Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them.
+    If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PROXY_PORT will be used instead.
+
+- **provision_vm_cluster** (String):
+    The cluster name where the virtual machine will run.
+
+  - **provision_vm_esxi_hostname** (string):
+      The ESXi hostname where the virtual machine will run.
+      This is a required parameter, if cluster is not set.
+      esxi_hostname and cluster are mutually exclusive parameters.    
+      This parameter is case sensitive.
+
+- **provision_vm_datacenter** (string):
+    Destination datacenter for the deploy operation.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    Default: "ha-datacenter"
+
+- **provision_vm_folder** (string):
+    Destination folder, absolute path to find an existing guest or create the new guest.
+    The folder should include the datacenter. ESXi’s datacenter is ha-datacenter.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    If multiple machines are found with same name, this parameter is used to identify
+    uniqueness of the virtual machine.
+  
+- **provision_vm_datastore** (string):
+    Specify datastore or datastore cluster to provision virtual machine.
+    This parameter takes precedence over disk.datastore parameter.
+    This parameter can be used to override datastore or datastore cluster setting of the virtual machine when deployed from the template.
+    Please see example for more usage.
+
+- **provision_vm_resource_pool** (string):
+    Use the given resource pool for virtual machine operation.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    Resource pool should be child of the selected host parent.
+    When not specified Resources is taken as default value.
+
+- **provision_vm_template** (string):
+    Template or existing virtual machine used to create new virtual machine.
+    If this value is not set, virtual machine is created without using a template.
+    If the virtual machine already exists, this parameter will be ignored.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    From version 2.8 onwards, absolute path to virtual machine or template can be used.
+
+- **provision_vm_convert** (string):
+    Specify convert disk type while cloning template or virtual machine.
+    Choices:
+    - "thin"
+    - "thick"
+    - "eagerzeroedthick"
+
+- **provision_vm_linked_clone** (boolean):
+    Whether to create a linked clone from the snapshot specified.
+    If specified, then snapshot_src is required parameter.
+    Choices:
+    - false ← (default)
+    - true
+
+- **provision_vm_snapshot_src** (string):
+    Name of the existing snapshot to use to create a clone of a virtual machine.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    While creating linked clone using linked_clone parameter, this parameter is required.
+
+- **provision_vm_advanced_settings** (list):
+    Define a list of advanced settings to be added to the VMX config.
+    An advanced settings object takes the two fields key and value.
+
+- **provision_vm_annotation** (string):
+    A note or annotation to include in the virtual machine.
+
+- **provision_vm_cdrom** (list):
+    A list of CD-ROM configurations for the virtual machine.
+    For ide controller, hot-add or hot-remove CD-ROM is not supported.
+
+    Element keys:
+     * type:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - The type of CD-ROM.
+        - With V(none) the CD-ROM will be disconnected but present.
+        choices: [ 'none', 'client', 'iso' ]
+        default: client
+    * iso_path:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - The datastore path to the ISO file to use, in the form of C([datastore1] path/to/file.iso).
+        - Required if type is set V(iso).
+    * controller_type:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - When set to V(sata), please make sure O(cdrom.unit_number) is correct and not used by SATA disks.
+        choices: [ 'ide', 'sata' ]
+        default: ide
+    * controller_number:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - For O(cdrom.controller_type=ide), valid value is 0 or 1.
+        - For O(cdrom.controller_type=sata), valid value is 0 to 3.
+    * unit_number:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - For O(cdrom.controller_type=ide), valid value is 0 or 1.
+        - For O(cdrom.controller_type=sata), valid value is 0 to 29.
+        - O(cdrom.controller_number) and O(cdrom.unit_number) are mandatory attributes.
+    * state:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - If set to V(absent), then the specified CD-ROM will be removed.
+        choices: [ 'present', 'absent' ]
+        default: present
+
+- **provision_vm_customization** (dictionary):
+    Parameters for OS customization when cloning from the template or the virtual machine, or apply to the existing virtual machine directly.
+    Not all operating systems are supported for customization with respective vCenter version, please check VMware documentation for respective OS customization.
+    For supported customization operating system matrix, (see http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf)
+    All parameters and VMware object names are case sensitive.
+    Linux based OSes requires Perl package to be installed for OS customizations.
+    
+    Element keys:
+    * existing_vm:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - If set to V(true), do OS customization on the specified virtual machine directly.
+        - Common for Linux and Windows customization.
+    * dns_servers:
+        type: list
+        elements: str
+        description:
+        - List of DNS servers to configure.
+        - Common for Linux and Windows customization.
+    * dns_suffix:
+        type: list
+        elements: str
+        description:
+        - List of domain suffixes, also known as DNS search path.
+        - Default C(domain) parameter.
+        - Common for Linux and Windows customization.
+    * domain:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - DNS domain name to use.
+        - Common for Linux and Windows customization.
+    * hostname:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Computer hostname.
+        - Default is shortened O(name) parameter.
+        - Allowed characters are alphanumeric (uppercase and lowercase) and minus, rest of the characters are dropped as per RFC 952.
+        - Common for Linux and Windows customization.
+    * timezone:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Timezone.
+        - See List of supported time zones for different vSphere versions in Linux/Unix.
+        - Common for Linux and Windows customization.
+        - L(Windows, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912391.aspx).
+    * hwclockUTC:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Specifies whether the hardware clock is in UTC or local time.
+        - Specific to Linux customization.
+    * script_text:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Script to run with shebang.
+        - Needs to be enabled in vmware tools with vmware-toolbox-cmd config set deployPkg enable-custom-scripts true
+        - https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-9A5093A5-C54F-4502-941B-3F9C0F573A39.html
+        - Specific to Linux customization.
+        version_added: '3.1.0'
+    * autologon:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Auto logon after virtual machine customization.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+    * autologoncount:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - Number of autologon after reboot.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+        - Ignored if O(customization.autologon) is unset or set to O(customization.autologon=false).
+        - If unset, 1 will be used.
+    * domainadmin:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - User used to join in AD domain.
+        - Required if O(customization.joindomain) specified.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+    * domainadminpassword:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Password used to join in AD domain.
+        - Required if O(customization.joindomain) specified.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+    * fullname:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Server owner name.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+        - If unset, "Administrator" will be used as a fall-back.
+    * joindomain:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - AD domain to join.
+        - Not compatible with O(customization.joinworkgroup).
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+    * joinworkgroup:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Workgroup to join.
+        - Not compatible with O(customization.joindomain).
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+        - If unset, "WORKGROUP" will be used as a fall-back.
+    * orgname:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Organisation name.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+        - If unset, "ACME" will be used as a fall-back.
+    * password:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Local administrator password.
+        - If not defined, the password will be set to blank (that is, no password).
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+    * productid:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Product ID.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+    * runonce:
+        type: list
+        elements: str
+        description:
+        - List of commands to run at first user logon.
+        - Specific to Windows customization.
+
+
+- **provision_vm_customization_spec** (string):
+    Unique name identifying the requested customization specification.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    If set, then overrides customization parameter values.
+
+- **provision_vm_customvalues** (list)
+    Define a list of custom values to set on virtual machine.
+    A custom value object takes the two fields key and value.
+    Incorrect key and values will be ignored.
+
+- **provision_vm_delete_from_inventory** (boolean):
+    Whether to delete Virtual machine from inventory or delete from disk.
+    Choices:
+    - false ← (default)
+    - true
+
+- **provision_vm_disk** (list):
+    A list of disks to add.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    Shrinking disks is not supported.
+    Removing existing disks of the virtual machine is not supported.
+    Attributes disk.controller_type, disk.controller_number, disk.unit_number are used to configure multiple types of disk controllers and disks for creating or reconfiguring virtual machine.
+    
+    Element keys:
+    * size:
+        description:
+        - Disk storage size.
+        - Please specify storage unit like [kb, mb, gb, tb].
+        type: str
+    * size_kb:
+        description: Disk storage size in kb.
+        type: int
+    * size_mb:
+        description: Disk storage size in mb.
+        type: int
+    * size_gb:
+        description: Disk storage size in gb.
+        type: int
+    * size_tb:
+        description: Disk storage size in tb.
+        type: int
+    * type:
+        description:
+        - Type of disk.
+        - If not specified, disk type is inherited from the source VM or template when cloned and thick disk, no eagerzero otherwise.
+        type: str
+        choices: [ 'thin', 'thick', 'eagerzeroedthick' ]
+    * datastore:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - The name of datastore which will be used for the disk.
+        - If O(disk.autoselect_datastore) is set to True, will select the less used datastore whose name contains this "disk.datastore" string.
+    * filename:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Existing disk image to be used.
+        - Filename must already exist on the datastore.
+        - Specify filename string in C([datastore_name] path/to/file.vmdk) format.
+    * autoselect_datastore:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Select the less used datastore.
+        - O(disk.datastore) and O(disk.autoselect_datastore) will not be used if O(datastore) is specified outside this O(disk) configuration.
+    * disk_mode:
+        type: str
+        choices: ['persistent', 'independent_persistent', 'independent_nonpersistent']
+        description:
+        - Type of disk mode.
+        - If V(persistent) specified, changes are immediately and permanently written to the virtual disk. This is default.
+        - If V(independent_persistent) specified, same as persistent, but not affected by snapshots.
+        - If V(independent_nonpersistent) specified, changes to virtual disk are made to a redo log and discarded at power off,
+          but not affected by snapshots.
+    * controller_type:
+        type: str
+        choices: ['buslogic', 'lsilogic', 'lsilogicsas', 'paravirtual', 'sata', 'nvme']
+        description:
+        - Type of disk controller.
+          Set this type on not supported ESXi or VM hardware version will lead to failure in deployment.
+        - When set to V(sata), please make sure O(disk.unit_number) is correct and not used by SATA CDROMs.
+        - If set to V(sata) type, please make sure O(disk.controller_number) and O(disk.unit_number) are set correctly when O(cdrom=sata).
+    * controller_number:
+        type: int
+        choices: [0, 1, 2, 3]
+        description:
+        - Disk controller bus number.
+        - The maximum number of same type controller is 4 per VM.
+    * unit_number:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - Disk Unit Number.
+        - Valid value range from 0 to 15 for SCSI controller, except 7.
+        - Valid value range from 0 to 14 for NVME controller.
+        - Valid value range from 0 to 29 for SATA controller.
+        - O(disk.controller_type), O(disk.controller_number) and O(disk.unit_number) are required when creating or reconfiguring VMs
+          with multiple types of disk controllers and disks.
+        - When creating new VM, the first configured disk in the O(disk) list will be "Hard Disk 1".
+
+- **provision_vm_encryption** (dictionary):
+    Manage virtual machine encryption settings
+    All parameters case sensitive.
+    Element keys:
+    * encrypted_vmotion:
+        type: str
+        description: Controls encryption for live migrations with vmotion
+        choices: ['disabled', 'opportunistic', 'required']
+    * encrypted_ft:
+        type: str
+        description: Controls encryption for fault tolerance replication
+        choices: ['disabled', 'opportunistic', 'required']
+
+- **provision_vm_force** (boolean):
+    Ignore warnings and complete the actions.
+    This parameter is useful while removing virtual machine which is powered on state.
+    This module reflects the VMware vCenter API and UI workflow, as such, in some cases the `force` flag will be mandatory to perform the action to ensure you are certain the action has to be taken, no matter what the consequence. This is specifically the case for removing a powered on the virtual machine when state=absent.
+    Choices:
+    - false ← (default)
+    - true
+
+- **provision_vm_guest_id** (string):
+    Set the guest ID.
+    This parameter is case sensitive.
+    This field is required when creating a virtual machine, not required when creating from the template.
+    Valid values are referenced here: https://code.vmware.com/apis/358/doc/vim.vm.GuestOsDescriptor.GuestOsIdentifier.html
+
+- **provision_vm_hardware** (dictionary):
+    Manage virtual machine’s hardware attributes.
+    All parameters case sensitive.
+    Keys:
+    * hotadd_cpu:
+        type: bool
+        description: Allow virtual CPUs to be added while the virtual machine is running.
+    * hotremove_cpu:
+        type: bool
+        description: Allow virtual CPUs to be removed while the virtual machine is running.
+    * hotadd_memory:
+        type: bool
+        description: Allow memory to be added while the virtual machine is running.
+    * memory_mb:
+        type: int
+        description: Amount of memory in MB.
+    * num_cpus:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - Number of CPUs.
+        - Must be a multiple of O(hardware.num_cpu_cores_per_socket).
+        - For example, to create a VM with 2 sockets of 4 cores, specify O(hardware.num_cpus) as 8 and O(hardware.num_cpu_cores_per_socket) as 4.
+    * num_cpu_cores_per_socket:
+        type: int
+        description: Number of Cores Per Socket.
+    * cpu_shares_level:
+        type: str
+        choices: [ 'low', 'normal', 'high', 'custom' ]
+        description:
+        - The allocation level of CPU resources for the virtual machine.
+        version_added: '3.2.0'
+    * cpu_shares:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - The number of shares of CPU allocated to this virtual machine
+        - cpu_shares_level will automatically be set to 'custom'
+        version_added: '3.2.0'
+    * vpmc_enabled:
+        version_added: '3.2.0'
+        type: bool
+        description: Enable virtual CPU Performance Counters.
+    * scsi:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Valid values are V(buslogic), V(lsilogic), V(lsilogicsas) and V(paravirtual).
+        - V(paravirtual) is default.
+        choices: [ 'buslogic', 'lsilogic', 'lsilogicsas', 'paravirtual' ]
+    * secure_boot:
+        type: bool
+        description: Whether to enable or disable (U)EFI secure boot.
+    * memory_reservation_lock:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - If set V(true), memory resource reservation for the virtual machine.
+    * max_connections:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - Maximum number of active remote display connections for the virtual machines.
+    * mem_limit:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - The memory utilization of a virtual machine will not exceed this limit.
+        - Unit is MB.
+    * mem_reservation:
+        type: int
+        description: The amount of memory resource that is guaranteed available to the virtual machine.
+        aliases: [ 'memory_reservation' ]
+    * mem_shares_level:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - The allocation level of memory resources for the virtual machine.
+        choices: [ 'low', 'normal', 'high', 'custom' ]
+        version_added: '3.2.0'
+    * mem_shares:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - The number of shares of memory allocated to this virtual machine
+        - mem_shares_level will automatically be set to 'custom'
+        version_added: '3.2.0'
+    * cpu_limit:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - The CPU utilization of a virtual machine will not exceed this limit.
+        - Unit is MHz.
+    * cpu_reservation:
+        type: int
+        description: The amount of CPU resource that is guaranteed available to the virtual machine.
+    * version:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - The Virtual machine hardware versions.
+        - Default is 10 (ESXi 5.5 and onwards).
+        - If set to V(latest), the specified virtual machine will be upgraded to the most current hardware version supported on the host.
+        - Please check VMware documentation for correct virtual machine hardware version.
+        - Incorrect hardware version may lead to failure in deployment. If hardware version is already equal to the given.
+    * boot_firmware:
+        type: str
+        description: Choose which firmware should be used to boot the virtual machine.
+        choices: [ 'bios', 'efi' ]
+    * nested_virt:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Enable nested virtualization.
+    * virt_based_security:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Enable Virtualization Based Security feature for Windows on ESXi 6.7 and later, from hardware version 14.
+        - Supported Guest OS are Windows 10 64 bit, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019 and later.
+        - The firmware of virtual machine must be EFI and secure boot must be enabled.
+        - Virtualization Based Security depends on nested virtualization and Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O.
+        - Deploy on unsupported ESXi, hardware version or firmware may lead to failure or deployed VM with unexpected configurations.
+    * iommu:
+        type: bool
+        description: Flag to specify if I/O MMU is enabled for this virtual machine.
+
+- **provision_vm_state** (string):
+    Specify the state the virtual machine should be in.
+    If present and virtual machine exists, ensure the virtual machine configurations conforms to task arguments.
+    If absent and virtual machine exists, then the specified virtual machine is removed with it’s associated components.
+    If set to one of poweredon, powered-on, poweredoff, powered-off, present, restarted, suspended and virtual machine does not exists, virtual machine is deployed with the given parameters.
+    If set to poweredon or powered-on and virtual machine exists with powerstate other than powered on, then the specified virtual machine is powered on.
+    If set to poweredoff or powered-off and virtual machine exists with powerstate other than powered off, then the specified virtual machine is powered off.
+    If set to restarted and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is restarted.
+    If set to suspended and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is set to suspended mode.
+    If set to shutdownguest or shutdown-guest and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is shutdown.
+    If set to rebootguest or reboot-guest and virtual machine exists, then the virtual machine is rebooted.
+    Choices:
+    - "absent"
+    - "poweredon"
+    - "powered-on"
+    - "poweredoff"
+    - "powered-off"
+    - "present" ← (default)
+    - "rebootguest"
+    - "reboot-guest"
+    - "restarted"
+    - "suspended"
+    - "shutdownguest"
+    - "shutdown-guest"
+
+- **provision_vm_state_change_timeout** (integer):
+    If the state=shutdownguest, by default the module will return immediately after sending the shutdown signal.
+    If this argument is set to a positive integer, the module will instead wait for the virtual machine to reach the poweredoff state.
+    The value sets a timeout in seconds for the module to wait for the state change.
+    Default: 0
+
+- **provision_vm_vapp_properties** (list):
+    A list of vApp properties.
+    For full list of attributes and types refer to: https://code.vmware.com/apis/704/vsphere/vim.vApp.PropertyInfo.html
+    Element keys:
+    * id:
+      type: str
+      description:
+      - Property ID.
+      - Required per entry.
+    * value:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Property value.
+    * type:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Value type, string type by default.
+    * operation:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - The C(remove) attribute is required only when removing properties.
+
+- **provision_vm_wait_for_customization** (boolean):
+    Wait until vCenter detects all guest customizations as successfully completed.
+    When enabled, the VM will automatically be powered on.
+    If vCenter does not detect guest customization start or succeed, failed events after time wait_for_customization_timeout parameter specified, warning message will be printed and task result is fail.
+    Choices:
+    - false ← (default)
+    - true
+
+- **provision_vm_wait_for_customization_timeout** (integer):
+    Define a timeout (in seconds) for the wait_for_customization parameter.
+    Be careful when setting this value since the time guest customization took may differ among guest OSes.
+    Default: 3600
+
+- **provision_vm_wait_for_ip_address** (boolean):
+    Wait until vCenter detects an IP address for the virtual machine.
+    This requires vmware-tools (vmtoolsd) to properly work after creation.
+    vmware-tools needs to be installed on the given virtual machine in order to work with this parameter.
+    Choices:
+    - false ← (default)
+    - true
+
+- **provision_vm_wait_for_ip_address_timeout** (integer):
+    Define a timeout (in seconds) for the wait_for_ip_address parameter.
+    Default: 300
+
+
+- **provision_vm_networks** (list):
+    A list of networks (in the order of the NICs).
+    Removing NICs is not allowed, while reconfiguring the virtual machine.
+    All parameters and VMware object names are case sensitive.
+    The type, ip, netmask, gateway, domain, dns_servers options don’t set to a guest when creating a blank new virtual machine. They are set by the customization via vmware-tools. If you want to set the value of the options to a guest, you need to clone from a template with installed OS and vmware-tools(also Perl when Linux).
+    Element keys:
+    * name:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Name of the portgroup or distributed virtual portgroup for this interface.
+        - Required per entry.
+        - When specifying distributed virtual portgroup make sure given O(esxi_hostname) or O(cluster) is associated with it.
+    * vlan:
+        type: int
+        description:
+        - VLAN number for this interface.
+        - Required per entry.
+    * device_type:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Virtual network device.
+        - Valid value can be one of C(e1000), C(e1000e), C(pcnet32), C(vmxnet2), C(vmxnet3), C(sriov).
+        - C(vmxnet3) is default.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for virtual hardware.
+    * mac:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Customize MAC address.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for virtual hardware.
+    * dvswitch_name:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Name of the distributed vSwitch.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for virtual hardware.
+    * type:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Type of IP assignment.
+        - Valid values are one of C(dhcp), C(static).
+        - C(dhcp) is default.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * ip:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Static IP address. Implies C(type=static).
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * netmask:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Static netmask required for C(ip).
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * gateway:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Static gateway.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * typev6:
+        version_added: '4.1.0'
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Type of IP assignment.
+        - Valid values are one of C(dhcp), C(static).
+        - C(dhcp) is default.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * ipv6:
+        version_added: '4.1.0'
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Static IP address. Implies C(type=static).
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * netmaskv6:
+        version_added: '4.1.0'
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Static netmask required for C(ip).
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * gatewayv6:
+        version_added: '4.1.0'
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Static gateway.
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * dns_servers:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - DNS servers for this network interface (Windows).
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * domain:
+        type: str
+        description:
+        - Domain name for this network interface (Windows).
+        - Optional per entry.
+        - Used for OS customization.
+    * connected:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Indicates whether the NIC is currently connected.
+    * start_connected:
+        type: bool
+        description:
+        - Specifies whether or not to connect the device when the virtual machine starts.
+
+- **provision_vm_nvdimm** (dictionary):
+    Add or remove a virtual NVDIMM device to the virtual machine.
+    VM virtual hardware version must be 14 or higher on vSphere 6.7 or later.
+    Verify that guest OS of the virtual machine supports PMem before adding virtual NVDIMM device.
+    Verify that you have the Datastore.Allocate space privilege on the virtual machine.
+    Make sure that the host or the cluster on which the virtual machine resides has available PMem resources.
+    To add or remove virtual NVDIMM device to the existing virtual machine, it must be in power off state.
+    Keys:
+    * state:
+         type: str
+         description:
+         - If set to V(absent), then the NVDIMM device with specified O(nvdimm.label) will be removed.
+         choices: ['present', 'absent']
+    * size_mb:
+        type: int
+        description: Virtual NVDIMM device size in MB.
+        default: 1024
+    * label:
+         type: str
+         description:
+         - The label of the virtual NVDIMM device to be removed or configured, e.g., "NVDIMM 1".
+         - 'This parameter is required when O(nvdimm.state=absent), or O(nvdimm.state=present) to reconfigure NVDIMM device
+           size. When add a new device, please do not set.'
+
+- **provision_vm_use_instance_uuid** (boolean):
+    Whether to use the VMware instance UUID rather than the BIOS UUID.
+    Choices:
+    - false ← (default)
+    - true
+
+- **provision_vm_name_match** (string):
+
+    If multiple virtual machines matching the name, use the first or last found.
+    Choices:
+    - "first" ← (default)
+    - "last"
+
+
+## Dependencies
+
+N/A
+
+## Example Playbook
+
+All the variables defined in section [Role Variables](#role-variables) can be defined inside the ``vars.yml`` file.
+
+Create a ``playbook.yml`` file like this:
+
+```
+---
+- hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: true
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Provision a VM 
+      ansible.builtin.import_role:
+        name: cloud.vmware_ops.provision_virtual_machine
+      vars:
+        aa: "{{ }}"
+```
+
+Run the playbook:
+
+```shell
+ansible-playbook playbook.yml -e "@vars.yml"
+```
+
+## License
+
+GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
+
+See [LICENCE](https://github.com/ansible-collections/cloud.vmware_ops/blob/main/LICENSE) to see the full text.
+
+## Author Information
+
+- Ansible Cloud Content Team
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diff --git a/roles/provision_vm/defaults/main.yml b/roles/provision_vm/defaults/main.yml
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index 00000000..9e0c251f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/provision_vm/defaults/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+provision_vm_clone_from_template: false
+provision_vm_clone_from_vm: false
diff --git a/roles/provision_vm/tasks/main.yml b/roles/provision_vm/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cdae516d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/provision_vm/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+- name: Fail if cluster and esxi_hostname both weren't set or both were set
+  when: ("{{ cluster }}" is defined and "{{ esxi_hostname }}" is defined) or ("{{ cluster }}" is not defined and "{{ esxi_hostname }}" is not defined)
+  ansible.builtin.fail:
+    msg: esxi_hostname and cluster are mutually exclusive parameters
+
+- name: Create or update the VM
+  community.vmware.vmware_guest:
+    hostname: "{{ provision_vm_hostname  }}"
+    username: "{{ provision_vm_username }}"
+    password: "{{ provision_vm_password }}"
+    validate_certs: "{{ omit if provision_vm_validate_certs is not defined else provision_vm_validate_certs}}"
+
+    port: "{{ omit if provision_vm_port is not defined else provision_vm_port }}"
+    proxy_host: "{{ omit if provision_vm_proxy_host is not defined else provision_vm_proxy_host }}"
+    proxy_port: "{{ omit if provision_vm_proxy_port is not defined else provision_vm_proxy_port }}"
+
+    name: "{{ provision_vm_vm_name }}"
+    uuid: "{{ omit if provision_vm_uuid is not defined else provision_vm_uuid }}"
+
+    # compute resource:
+    cluster: "{{ omit if provision_vm_cluster not defined else provision_vm_cluster }}"
+    esxi_hostname: "{{ omit if provision_vm_esxi_hostname is not defined else provision_vm_esxi_hostname}}"
+    datacenter: "{{ omit if provision_vm_datacenter is not defined else provision_vm_datacenter}}"
+    folder: "{{ omit if provision_vm_folder is not defined else provision_vm_folder}}"
+    datastore: "{{ omit if provision_vm_datastore is not defined else provision_vm_datastore}}"
+    resource_pool: "{{ omit if provision_vm_resource_pool is not defined else provision_vm_resource_pool}}"
+
+    # for cloning VM
+    template: "{{ provision_vm_template }}"
+    convert: "{{ omit if provision_vm_convert is not defined else provision_vm_convert }}"
+    linked_clone: "{{ omit if provision_vm_linked_clone is not defined else provision_vm_linked_clone }}"
+    snapshot_src: "{{ omit if provision_vm_snapshot_src is not defined else provision_vm_snapshot_src }}"
+
+    # optional:
+    advanced_settings: "{{ omit if provision_vm_advanced_settings is not defined else provision_vm_advanced_settings}}"
+    annotation: "{{ omit if provision_vm_annotation is not defined else provision_vm_annotation}}"
+    cdrom: "{{ omit if provision_vm_cdrom is not defined else provision_vm_cdrom }}"
+    customization: "{{ omit if provision_vm_customization is not defined else provision_vm_customization }}"
+    customization_spec: "{{ omit if provision_vm_customization_spec is not defined else provision_vm_customization_spec }}"
+    customvalues: "{{ omit if provision_vm_customvalues is not defined else provision_vm_customvalues }}"
+    delete_from_inventory: "{{ omit if provision_vm_delete_from_inventory is not defined else provision_vm_delete_from_inventory }}"
+    disk: "{{ omit if provision_vm_disk is not defined else provision_vm_disk }}"
+    encryption: "{{ omit if provision_vm_encryption is not defined else provision_vm_encryption }}"
+    force: "{{ omit if provision_vm_force is not defined else provision_vm_force }}"
+    guest_id: "{{ omit if provision_vm_guest_id is not defined else provision_vm_guest_id }}"
+    hardware: "{{ omit if provision_vm_hardware is not defined else provision_vm_hardware }}"
+    state: "{{ omit if provision_vm_state is not defined else provision_vm_state}}"
+    state_change_timeout: "{{ omit if provision_vm_state_change_timeout is not defined else provision_vm_state_change_timeout}}"
+    vapp_properties: "{{ omit if provision_vm_vapp_properties is not defined else provision_vm_vapp_properties}}"
+    wait_for_customization: "{{ omit if provision_vm_wait_for_customization is not defined else provision_vm_wait_for_customization}}"
+    wait_for_customization_timeout: "{{ omit if provision_vm_wait_for_customization_timeout is not defined else provision_vm_wait_for_customization_timeout}}"
+    wait_for_ip_address: "{{ omit if provision_vm_wait_for_ip_address is not defined else provision_vm_wait_for_ip_address}}"
+    wait_for_ip_address_timeout: "{{ omit if provision_vm_wait_for_ip_address_timeout is not defined else provision_vm_wait_for_ip_address_timeout}}"
+    networks: "{{ omit if provision_vm_networks is not defined else provision_vm_networks }}"
+    nvdimm: "{{ omit if provision_vm_nvdimm is not defined else provision_vm_nvdimm }}"
+    use_instance_uuid: "{{ omit if provision_vm_use_instance_uuid  is not defined else provision_vm_use_instance_uuid }}"
+    name_match: "{{ omit if provision_vm_name_match is not defined else provision_vm_name_match }}"
+
+    is_template: false
+  register: my_vm
+
+- name: Print VM information
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    var: my_vm
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diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/mock.json b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/mock.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ef2cbfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/mock.json
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+[
+{
+  "httpRequest": {
+    "method": "POST",
+    "path": "/rest/com/vmware/cis/session"
+  },
+  "httpResponse": {
+    "statusCode": 200,
+    "body": {"value": "72300ca9ff16c5743fa0a6328c8570ce"}
+  }
+},
+{
+  "httpRequest": {
+    "method": "PUT",
+    "path": "/api/appliance/access/(consolecli|dcui|shell|ssh)"
+  },
+  "httpResponse": {
+    "statusCode": 200,
+    "headers": {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json"
+    },
+    "body": "{}"
+  }
+},
+{
+  "httpRequest": {
+    "method": "GET",
+    "path": "/api/appliance/access/(consolecli|dcui|shell|ssh)"
+  },
+  "httpResponse": {
+    "statusCode": 200,
+    "headers": {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json"
+    },
+    "body": "true"
+  }
+},
+{
+  "httpRequest": {
+    "method" : "GET",
+    "path" : "/api/appliance/networking/firewall/inbound"
+  },
+  "httpResponse": {
+    "statusCode": 200,
+    "headers": {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json"
+    },
+    "body": [{}]
+  }
+},
+{
+  "httpRequest": {
+    "method" : "PUT",
+    "path" : "/api/appliance/networking/firewall/inbound"
+  },
+  "httpResponse": {
+    "statusCode": 200,
+    "headers": {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json"
+    },
+    "body": "{}"
+  }
+}
+]
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/run.yml b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/run.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..949850fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/run.yml
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+- hosts: localhost
+  gather_facts: no
+  collections:
+    - community.general
+  vars_files:
+    - vars.yml
+
+  tasks:
+    - name: Vcsim
+      ansible.builtin.import_role:
+        name: prepare_rest
+
+    - name: Import provision VM role
+      ansible.builtin.import_role:
+        name: provision_vm_test
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/runme.sh b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/runme.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..a4c36631
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/runme.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+source ../init.sh
+exec ansible-playbook run.yml
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f88b785
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+- name: Security role
+  ansible.builtin.import_role:
+    name: redhat_cop.vmware_ops.provision_vm
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/vars.yml b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/vars.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ffe33c40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/provision_vm_test/vars.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+mock_file: "provision_vm_test"
+
+provision_vm_hostname: "127.0.0.1:1080"
+provision_vm_username: "user"
+provision_vm_password: "pass"
+provision_vm_validate_certs: false
+
+provision_vm_vm_name: "vm_test"
+provision_vm_cluster: "cluster_test"
+provision_vm_datacenter: "dc_test"
+provision_vm_folder: "folder_test"
+provision_vm_guest_id: "centos64Guest"
+
+
+