gistfile1.txt

  tasks:
  - name: add a new disk on guest vm
    vmware_guest:
      hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
      user: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
      password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
      datacenter: "{{ vcenter_datacenter }}"
      cluster: "{{ vcenter_cluster }}"
      guest_id: "rhel7_64Guest"
      validate_certs: False
      state: present
      name: "{{ ansible_nodename }}"
      disk:
      - size_gb: 32G
        autoselect_datastore: True
    delegate_to: localhost
    
    
  But I have this message:
  
  fatal: [servername -> localhost]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false, 
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "annotation": null, 
            "cluster": "cluster", 
            "customization": {}, 
            "customvalues": [], 
            "datacenter": "datacenter", 
            "disk": [
                {
                    "autoselect_datastore": true, 
                    "size_gb": "32G"
                }
            ], 
            "esxi_hostname": null, 
            "folder": "/vm", 
            "force": false, 
            "guest_id": "rhel7_64Guest", 
            "hardware": {}, 
            "hostname": "vcenter.domain", 
            "is_template": false, 
            "linked_clone": false, 
            "name": "servername", 
            "name_match": "first", 
            "networks": [], 
            "password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER", 
            "resource_pool": null, 
            "snapshot_src": null, 
            "state": "present", 
            "template": null, 
            "user": "VSPHERE.LOCAL\\username", 
            "username": "VSPHERE.LOCAL\\username", 
            "uuid": null, 
            "validate_certs": false, 
            "wait_for_ip_address": false
        }
    }, 
    "msg": "hardware.num_cpus attribute is mandatory for VM creation"
}
	to retry, use: --limit @/home/svc_ansible/Ansible/SAQ/Base/playbooks/preparation_webmethod10.retry