vmware_host_datastore - Manage a datastore on ESXi host

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status
  • Author

Synopsis

• This module can be used to mount/umount datastore on ESXi host.
• This module only support NFS/VMFS type of datastores.
• For VMFS datastore, available device must already be connected on ESXi host.
• All parameters and VMware object names are case sensitive.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.6
• PyVmomi

Parameters

Notes

Examples

- name: Mount VMFS datastores to ESXi
  vmware_host_datastore:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_user }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_pass }}'
      datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter }}'
      datastore_name: '{{ item.name }}'
      datastore_type: '{{ item.type }}'
      vmfs_device_name: 'naa.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
      vmfs_version: 6
      esxi_hostname: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
      state: present
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Mount NFS datastores to ESXi
  vmware_host_datastore:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_user }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_pass }}'
      datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter }}'
      datastore_name: '{{ item.name }}'
      datastore_type: '{{ item.type }}'
      nfs_server: '{{ item.server }}'
      nfs_path: '{{ item.path }}'
      nfs_ro: no
      esxi_hostname: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
      state: present
  delegate_to: localhost
  with_items:
      - { 'name': 'NasDS_vol01', 'server': 'nas01', 'path': '/mnt/vol01', 'type': 'nfs'}
      - { 'name': 'NasDS_vol02', 'server': 'nas01', 'path': '/mnt/vol02', 'type': 'nfs'}

- name: Remove/Umount Datastores from ESXi
  vmware_host_datastore:
      hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
      username: '{{ vcenter_user }}'
      password: '{{ vcenter_pass }}'
      datacenter_name: '{{ datacenter }}'
      datastore_name: NasDS_vol01
      esxi_hostname: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
      state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

• Ludovic Rivallain <ludovic.rivallain@gmail.com> @lrivallain