community.general.vexata_eg – Manage export groups on Vexata VX100 storage arrays

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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 community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.vexata_eg.

Synopsis

  • Create or delete export groups on a Vexata VX100 array.
  • An export group is a tuple of a volume group, initiator group and port group that allows a set of volumes to be exposed to one or more hosts through specific array ports.

Requirements

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

  • Vexata VX100 storage array with VXOS >= v3.5.0 on storage array
  • vexatapi >= 0.0.1
  • python >= 2.7
  • VEXATA_USER and VEXATA_PASSWORD environment variables must be set if user and password arguments are not passed to the module directly.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
array
string / required
Vexata VX100 array hostname or IPv4 Address.
ig
string
Initiator group name.
name
string / required
Export group name.
password
string
Vexata API user password.
pg
string
Port group name.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Creates export group when present or delete when absent.
user
string
Vexata API user with administrative privileges.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.
If set to yes, please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.
vg
string
Volume group name.

Examples

- name: Create export group named db_export.
  community.general.vexata_eg:
    name: db_export
    vg: dbvols
    ig: dbhosts
    pg: pg1
    state: present
    array: vx100_ultra.test.com
    user: admin
    password: secret

- name: Delete export group named db_export
  community.general.vexata_eg:
    name: db_export
    state: absent
    array: vx100_ultra.test.com
    user: admin
    password: secret

Authors

  • Sandeep Kasargod (@vexata)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/vexata_eg_module.html