cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template – Configures vHBA templates on Cisco UCS Manager

Note

This plugin is part of the cisco.ucs collection (version 1.6.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install cisco.ucs.

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template.

New in version 2.5: of cisco.ucs

Synopsis

  • Configures vHBA templates on Cisco UCS Manager.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • ucsmsdk

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
description
string
A user-defined description of the template.
Enter up to 256 characters.
You can use any characters or spaces except the following:
` (accent mark), (backslash), ^ (carat), " (double quote), = (equal sign), > (greater than), < (less than), or ' (single quote).

aliases: descr
fabric
string
    Choices:
  • A ←
  • B
The Fabric ID field.
The name of the fabric interconnect that vHBAs created with this template are associated with.
hostname
string / required
IP address or hostname of Cisco UCS Manager.
Modules can be used with the UCS Platform Emulator https://cs.co/ucspe
max_data
string
Default:
"2048"
The Max Data Field Size field.
The maximum size of the Fibre Channel frame payload bytes that the vHBA supports.
Enter an string between '256' and '2112'.
name
string / required
The name of the virtual HBA template.
This name can be between 1 and 16 alphanumeric characters.
You cannot use spaces or any special characters other than - (hyphen), "_" (underscore), : (colon), and . (period).
You cannot change this name after the template is created.
org_dn
string
Default:
"org-root"
Org dn (distinguished name)
password
string / required
Password for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.
pin_group
string
The SAN pin group that is associated with vHBAs created from this template.
port
integer
Port number to be used during connection (by default uses 443 for https and 80 for http connection).
proxy
string
If use_proxy is no, specfies proxy to be used for connection. e.g. 'http://proxy.xy.z:8080'
qos_policy
string
The QoS policy that is associated with vHBAs created from this template.
redundancy_type
string
    Choices:
  • none ←
  • primary
  • secondary
The Redundancy Type used for template pairing from the Primary or Secondary redundancy template.
primary — Creates configurations that can be shared with the Secondary template.
Any other shared changes on the Primary template are automatically synchronized to the Secondary template.
secondary — All shared configurations are inherited from the Primary template.
none - Legacy vHBA template behavior. Select this option if you do not want to use redundancy.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
If present, will verify vHBA templates are present and will create if needed.
If absent, will verify vHBA templates are absent and will delete if needed.
stats_policy
string
Default:
"default"
The statistics collection policy that is associated with vHBAs created from this template.
template_type
string
    Choices:
  • initial-template ←
  • updating-template
The Template Type field.
This can be one of the following:
initial-template — vHBAs created from this template are not updated if the template changes.
updating-template - vHBAs created from this template are updated if the template changes.
use_proxy
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, will not use the proxy as defined by system environment variable.
use_ssl
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.
username
string
Default:
"admin"
Username for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.
vsan
string
Default:
"default"
The VSAN to associate with vHBAs created from this template.
wwpn_pool
string
Default:
"default"
The WWPN pool that a vHBA created from this template uses to derive its WWPN address.

Examples

- name: Configure vHBA template
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    name: vHBA-A
    fabric: A
    vsan: VSAN-A
    wwpn_pool: WWPN-Pool-A

- name: Remote vHBA template
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    name: vHBA-A
    state: absent

Authors

  • David Soper (@dsoper2)
  • John McDonough (@movinalot)
  • CiscoUcs (@CiscoUcs)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/cisco/ucs/ucs_vhba_template_module.html