In order to create your Ansible groups based on vmware tags you need to create a inventory file and name it to something.vmware.yaml.
Also make sure to enable vmware inventory plugin in ansible.cfg
[inventory]
enable_plugins = vmware_vm_inventory
something.vmware.yaml
plugin: vmware_vm_inventory strict: False hostname: vc.homelab.jonasdahlgen.se username: administrator@vsphere.local password: secretpassword validate_certs: false with_tags: true properties: - 'name' - 'config.uuid' - 'config.name' - 'guest.toolsStatus' - 'guest.toolsRunningStatus' - 'guest.ipAddress' - 'configIssue' - 'config.bootOptions' - 'config.annotation' - 'config.alternateGuestName' compose: ansible_host: 'guest.ipAddress' keyed_groups: - key: 'tags' separator: ''
Test new inventory with ansible-inventory –graph -i vcenter.vmware.yaml Groups named Linux, ansible_managed,win are created from Vmware tags.

[root@d4e7b19ae23b playbooks]# ansible-inventory --graph -i vcenter.vmware.yaml @all: |--@Linux: | |--Ansible01_564d4590-0ab7-8192-33c4-8690b6394208 |--@ansible_managed: | |--Ansible01_564d4590-0ab7-8192-33c4-8690b6394208 | |--SQL2016_421e22dd-ecbd-83f2-6010-b679a3840a70 |--@ungrouped: | |--2019Template_42237f2e-f317-3fbd-2688-023de31ffcdf | |--AD_564d896d-f1cb-3837-4c15-6355e1b78b1d | |--Docker01_4223eb67-2e2b-519c-0f90-959234307b44 | |--Esxi1_4223f791-c6b1-294b-b8be-00441105f73b | |--Ubuntu_template_4223cce6-d618-6994-1550-db4d872cdf98 | |--Vcenter7_564d3c9f-07a3-90fa-60df-bfb39b3f697b | |--Win10_01_564da1fa-1da0-7b6b-d386-8b173a48fbc6 | |--centos_template_42232f6e-96bb-f385-7ea4-aedaec2dedea | |--esxi-01_422366be-06b3-eb4e-b837-cb472cce4208 | |--esxi-02_4223d129-24c4-98fe-205f-af445f578a03 | |--esxi-03_4223e353-2be9-a388-5203-60f887bfb14a |--@win: | |--SQL2016_421e22dd-ecbd-83f2-6010-b679a3840a70