trying this with mapping

playbooks/utils/vSphere_audit.yml

@@ -128,13 +128,21 @@
       ansible.builtin.debug:
         var: esxi_memory_for_all_vms
 
-    - name: View ESXi memory used by VMs
+    - name: Try ESXI memory stats with mapping
       ansible.builtin.debug:
-        msg: The VMs on the {{ item.item }} host are using {{ item.ansible_facts.vm_memory_array | int * 1048576 | human_readable }}
+        msg: The VMs on {{ item.0 }} are using {{ item.1 | int * 104576 | human_readable }}
+      with_together:
+        - "{{ esxi_memory_for_all_vms | map(attribute='ESXI_host') | list }}"
+        - "{{ esxi_memory_for_all_vms | map(attribute='Sum_of_vm_mmory_in_MB') | list }}"
+
+    # This attempt gave us a long array of 1 KB messages . . .
+    # - name: View ESXi memory used by VMs
+    #   ansible.builtin.debug:
+    #     msg: The VMs on the {{ item.item }} host are using {{ item.ansible_facts.vm_memory_array | int * 1048576 | human_readable }}
        # this part gives 0 GB
        # because the var in the loop does not match the Name attribute in slim_esxi_host_memory
        # out of {{ slim_esxi_host_memory | selectattr('Name', 'equalto', item) | map(attribute='Totalmemory') | sum | human_readable(unit='G') }} total.
-      loop: "{{ vm_memory_per_esxi_host.results }}"
+      # loop: "{{ vm_memory_per_esxi_host.results }}"
 
     - name: show number of VMs by esxi_hostname
       ansible.builtin.debug: