diff --git a/ansible.cfg b/ansible.cfg
index e98a2af86591c589fcf3252584258c0f55078cc5..7704d825bebd2b76666490f0a96af8a8df4735a7 100644
--- a/ansible.cfg
+++ b/ansible.cfg
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ vault_identity_list = ../lza_install_common.pass
 # Administrators can override this by using the "-i <inventoryfile>" CLI
 # argument.
 inventory           = ../ansible_vaults/inventory.yml
+# inventory           = ./inventory.vmware.yml
 
 # Remote user name
 # We DELIBERATELY set this to an non-existent non-root username to make sure
@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ callbacks_enabled: yaml
 # Ignore these extensions when parsing a directory as inventory source.
 ignore_extensions = .pyc, .pyo, .swp, .bak, ~, .rpm, .md, .txt, ~, .orig, .ini, .cfg, .retry
 
+# enable_plugins = vmware_vm_inventory
+
 [ssh_connection]
 # Enabling pipelining reduces the number of SSH operations required to
 # execute a module on the remote server. This can result in a significant
diff --git a/inventory.vmware.yml b/inventory.vmware.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..363396318609e00f033eb4cee83bf228f48890a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/inventory.vmware.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+# https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_vm_inventory_inventory.html
+plugin: community.vmware.vmware_vm_inventory
+strict: false
+hostname: "vCenter.server.fqdn"
+username: 'SLUB\user_here'
+password: "my_secret_password"
+validate_certs: true
+with_tags: true
+groups:
+  VMs: true