ibm_sa_vol – Handle volumes on IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family storage systems

New in version 2.7.

Synopsis

• This module creates or deletes volumes to be used on IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family storage systems.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7

• pyxcli

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
endpoints string / required		The hostname or management IP of Spectrum Accelerate storage system.
password string / required		Password for username on the spectrum accelerate storage system.
pool -		Volume pool.
size -		Volume size.
state - / required	Choices: present ← absent	Volume state.
username string / required		Management user on the spectrum accelerate storage system.
vol - / required		Volume name.

Notes

Note

• This module requires pyxcli python library. Use ‘pip install pyxcli’ in order to get pyxcli.

Examples

- name: Create a new volume.
  ibm_sa_vol:
    vol: volume_name
    pool: pool_name
    size: 17
    state: present
    username: admin
    password: secret
    endpoints: hostdev-system

- name: Delete an existing volume.
  ibm_sa_vol:
    vol: volume_name
    state: absent
    username: admin
    password: secret
    endpoints: hostdev-system

Status

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

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

Authors

• Tzur Eliyahu (@tzure)

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