purestorage.flasharray.purefa_connect module – Manage replication connections between two FlashArrays

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.39.0).

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 purestorage.flasharray. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_connect.

New in purestorage.flasharray 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Manage array connections to specified target array

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.3

  • purestorage >= 1.19

  • py-pure-client >= 1.26.0

  • netaddr

  • requests

  • pycountry

  • urllib3

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_token

string

FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.

connection

string

Type of connection between arrays.

Choices:

  • "sync"

  • "async" ← (default)

context

string

added in purestorage.flasharray 1.39.0

Name of fleet member on which to perform the operation.

This requires the array receiving the request is a member of a fleet and the context name to be a member of the same fleet.

Default: ""

disable_warnings

boolean

added in purestorage.flasharray 1.29.0

Disable insecure certificate warnings in debug logs

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

encrypted

boolean

added in purestorage.flasharray 1.30.0

Defines if the array connection will be encryted

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

fa_url

string

FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.

state

string

Create or delete array connection

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

target_api

string

API token for target array

target_url

string / required

Management IP address of remote array.

transport

string

Type of transport protocol to use for replication

Choices:

  • "ip" ← (default)

  • "fc"

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries.

  • Additional Python libraries may be required for specific modules.

  • You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if fa_url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly.

Examples

- name: Create an IPv4 async connection to remote array
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_connect:
    target_url: 10.10.10.20
    target_api: 9c0b56bc-f941-f7a6-9f85-dcc3e9a8f7d6
    connection: async
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
- name: Create an IPv6 async connection to remote array
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_connect:
    target_url: "[2001:db8:abcd:12::10]"
    target_api: 9c0b56bc-f941-f7a6-9f85-dcc3e9a8f7d6
    connection: async
    fa_url: "[2001:db8:abcd:12::13]"
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
- name: Delete connection to remote array
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_connect:
    state: absent
    target_url: 10.10.10.20
    target_api: 9c0b56bc-f941-f7a6-9f85-dcc3e9a8f7d6
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)