purefa_hg – Manage hostgroups on Pure Storage FlashArrays

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• Create, delete or modify hostgroups on Pure Storage FlashArrays.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7

• purestorage

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_token string / required		FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
fa_url string / required		FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
host list		List of existing hosts to add to hostgroup.
hostgroup string / required		The name of the hostgroup.
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Define whether the hostgroup should exist or not.
volume list		List of existing volumes to add to hostgroup.

Notes

Note

• This module requires the purestorage Python library

• 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 empty hostgroup
  purefa_hg:
    hostgroup: foo
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Add hosts and volumes to existing or new hostgroup
  purefa_hg:
    hostgroup: foo
    host:
      - host1
      - host2
    volume:
      - vol1
      - vol2
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Delete hosts and volumes from hostgroup
  purefa_hg:
    hostgroup: foo
    host:
      - host1
      - host2
    volume:
      - vol1
      - vol2
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent

# This will disconnect all hosts and volumes in the hostgroup
- name: Delete hostgroup
  purefa_hg:
    hostgroup: foo
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent

- name: Create host group with hosts and volumes
  purefa_hg:
    hostgroup: bar
    host:
      - host1
      - host2
    volume:
      - vol1
      - vol2
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

Status

• This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Pure Storage ansible Team (@sdodsley) <pure-ansible-team@purestorage.com>

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