purefa_offload – Create, modify and delete NFS or S3 offload targets

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis

  • Create, modify and delete NFS or S3 offload targets.

  • Only supported on Purity v5.2.0 or higher.

  • You must have a correctly configured offload network for offload to work.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • purestorage

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
access_key
string
Access Key ID of the S3 target
address
string
The IP or FQDN address of the NFS server
api_token
string / required
FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
bucket
string
Name of the bucket for the S3 target
fa_url
string / required
FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
initialize
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
Define whether to initialize the S3 bucket
name
string / required
The name of the offload target
options
string
Default:
""
Additional mount options for the NFS share
Supported mount options include port, rsize, wsize, nfsvers, and tcp or udp
protocol
string
    Choices:
  • nfs ←
  • s3
Define which protocol the offload engine uses
secret
string
Secret Access Key for the S3 target
share
string
NFS export on the NFS server
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
Define state of offload

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 NFS offload target
  purefa_offload:
    name: nfs-offload
    protocol: nfs
    address: 10.21.200.4
    share: "/offload_target"
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Create S3 offload target
  purefa_offload:
    name: s3-offload
    protocol: s3
    access_key: "3794fb12c6204e19195f"
    bucket: offload-bucket
    secret: "wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY"
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Delete offload target
  purefa_offload:
    name: nfs-offload
    protocol: nfs
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

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