Important! How do you automate VMware vSphere VM creation and snapshotting via Ansible? Answer: Use the VMware guest module. Beware as this is currently in “preview” mode which means that backwards compatibility is not guaranteed in the newer versions.
20170522/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vsphere_guest_module.html
20170522/http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/vmware_guest_snapshot_module.html