VMWare collection ready but waiting for release

turn off use of VMWare inventory plugin for now

Attempt to roll back general migration to Ansible 2.8
  failed, kept at 2.9 because of compatibility

awx/main/models/inventory.py

@@ -2251,7 +2251,7 @@ class gce(PluginFileInjector):
 
 class vmware(PluginFileInjector):
     plugin_name = 'vmware_vm_inventory'
-    initial_version = '2.9'  # Only tested with collection version
+    # initial_version = '2.9'  # Ready 4/22/2020, waiting for release
     ini_env_reference = 'VMWARE_INI_PATH'
     base_injector = 'managed'
     namespace = 'community'
@@ -2271,23 +2271,23 @@ class vmware(PluginFileInjector):
             "ansible_ssh_host",
             "ansible_host",
             "ansible_uuid",
-            "availableField",  # optional?
-            "configIssue",  # optional?
-            "configStatus",  # optional?
-            "customValue",  # optional?
+            "availableField",
+            "configIssue",
+            "configStatus",
+            "customValue",  # optional
             "datastore",
-            "effectiveRole",  # optional?
-            "guestHeartbeatStatus",  # optonal?
-            "layout",  # optional?
-            "layoutEx",  # optional?
+            "effectiveRole",
+            "guestHeartbeatStatus",  # optonal
+            "layout",  # optional
+            "layoutEx",  # optional
             "name",
             "network",
-            "overallStatus",  # optional?
-            "parentVApp",  # optional?
+            "overallStatus",
+            "parentVApp",  # optional
             "permission",
-            "recentTask",  # optional?
+            "recentTask",
             "resourcePool",
-            "rootSnapshot",  # optional?
+            "rootSnapshot",
             "snapshot",  # optional
             "tag",
             "triggeredAlarmState",
@@ -2302,12 +2302,15 @@ class vmware(PluginFileInjector):
             "summary",  # repeat of other properties
         ]
         ret['properties'] = UPPERCASE_PROPS + NESTED_PROPS
-        ret['compose'] = {}
+        ret['compose'] = {'ansible_host': 'guest.ipAddress'}  # default value
+        ret['compose']['ansible_ssh_host'] = ret['compose']['ansible_host']
+        # the ansible_uuid was unique every host, every import, from the script
+        ret['compose']['ansible_uuid'] = '99999999 | random | to_uuid'
         for prop in UPPERCASE_PROPS:
             if prop == prop.lower():
                 continue
             ret['compose'][prop.lower()] = prop
-        # ret['with_nested_properties'] = True  # only dacrystal/topic/vmware-inventory-plugin-enhancements
+        ret['with_nested_properties'] = True
         # ret['property_name_format'] = 'lower_case'  # only dacrystal/topic/vmware-inventory-plugin-property-format
 
         # process custom options

awx/main/tests/data/inventory/plugins/vmware/files/vmware_vm_inventory.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 compose:
+  ansible_host: guest.ipAddress
+  ansible_ssh_host: guest.ipAddress
+  ansible_uuid: 99999999 | random | to_uuid
   availablefield: availableField
   configissue: configIssue
   configstatus: configStatus
@@ -53,3 +56,4 @@ properties:
 - storage
 - summary
 strict: false
+with_nested_properties: true