ovirt_host – Module to manage hosts in oVirt/RHV

Synopsis

  • Module to manage hosts in oVirt/RHV

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.3.0

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
activate
boolean
added in 2.4
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If state is present activate the host.
This parameter is good to disable, when you don't want to change the state of host when using present state.
address
-
Host address. It can be either FQDN (preferred) or IP address.
auth
dictionary / required
Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:
ca_file
string
A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates.
The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates.
If ca_file parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used.
Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.
headers
dictionary
Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.
hostname
string
A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`.
Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAME environment variable.
Either url or hostname is required.
insecure
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.
kerberos
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.
password
string / required
The password of the user.
Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.
token
string
Token to be used instead of login with username/password.
Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.
url
string
A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`.
Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable.
Either url or hostname is required.
username
string / required
The name of the user, something like admin@internal.
Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.
check_upgrade
boolean
added in 2.4
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If true and state is upgraded run check for upgrade action before executing upgrade action.
cluster
-
Name of the cluster, where host should be created.
comment
-
Description of the host.
fetch_nested
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If True the module will fetch additional data from the API.
It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes.
force
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Indicates that the host should be removed even if it is non-responsive, or if it is part of a Gluster Storage cluster and has volume bricks on it.
WARNING: It doesn't forcibly remove the host if another host related operation is being executed on the host at the same time.
hosted_engine
-
    Choices:
  • deploy
  • undeploy
If deploy it means this host should deploy also hosted engine components.
If undeploy it means this host should un-deploy hosted engine components and this host will not function as part of the High Availability cluster.
id
-
added in 2.8
ID of the host to manage.
iscsi
-
added in 2.4
If state is iscsidiscover it means that the iscsi attribute is being used to discover targets
If state is iscsilogin it means that the iscsi attribute is being used to login to the specified targets passed as part of the iscsi attribute
kdump_integration
-
    Choices:
  • enabled
  • disabled
Specify if host will have enabled Kdump integration.
kernel_params
-
List of kernel boot parameters.
Following are most common kernel parameters used for host:
Hostdev Passthrough & SR-IOV: intel_iommu=on
Nested Virtualization: kvm-intel.nested=1
Unsafe Interrupts: vfio_iommu_type1.allow_unsafe_interrupts=1
PCI Reallocation: pci=realloc
Note:
Modifying kernel boot parameters settings can lead to a host boot failure. Please consult the product documentation before doing any changes.
Kernel boot parameters changes require host deploy and restart. The host needs to be reinstalled successfully and then to be rebooted for kernel boot parameters to be applied.
name
- / required
Name of the host to manage.
nested_attributes
list
Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API.
This parameter apply only when fetch_nested is true.
override_display
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Override the display address of all VMs on this host with specified address.
override_iptables
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
If True host iptables will be overridden by host deploy script.
Note that override_iptables is false by default in oVirt/RHV.
password
-
Password of the root. It's required in case public_key is set to False.
poll_interval
integer
Default:
3
Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent.
power_management_enabled
boolean
added in 2.4
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes
Enable or disable power management of the host.
For more comprehensive setup of PM use ovirt_host_pm module.
public_key
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
True if the public key should be used to authenticate to host.
It's required in case password is not set.

aliases: ssh_public_key
reboot_after_upgrade
boolean
added in 2.6
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
If true and state is upgraded reboot host after successful upgrade.
spm_priority
-
SPM priority of the host. Integer value from 1 to 10, where higher number means higher priority.
state
-
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
  • maintenance
  • upgraded
  • started
  • restarted
  • stopped
  • reinstalled
  • iscsidiscover
  • iscsilogin
State which should a host to be in after successful completion.
iscsilogin and iscsidiscover are supported since version 2.4.
timeout
integer
Default:
600
The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the host to get into desired state.
vgpu_placement
-
added in 2.8
    Choices:
  • consolidated
  • separated
If consolidated, each vGPU is placed on the first physical card with available space. This is the default placement, utilizing all available space on the physical cards.
If separated, each vGPU is placed on a separate physical card, if possible. This can be useful for improving vGPU performance.
wait
boolean
    Choices:
  • no
  • yes ←
yes if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.

Notes

Note

  • In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.3.0

Examples

# Examples don't contain auth parameter for simplicity,
# look at ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication:

# Add host with username/password supporting SR-IOV.
# Note that override_iptables is false by default in oVirt/RHV:
- ovirt_host:
    cluster: Default
    name: myhost
    address: 10.34.61.145
    password: secret
    override_iptables: true
    kernel_params:
      - intel_iommu=on

# Add host using public key
- ovirt_host:
    public_key: true
    cluster: Default
    name: myhost2
    address: 10.34.61.145
    override_iptables: true

# Deploy hosted engine host
- ovirt_host:
    cluster: Default
    name: myhost2
    password: secret
    address: 10.34.61.145
    override_iptables: true
    hosted_engine: deploy

# Maintenance
- ovirt_host:
    state: maintenance
    name: myhost

# Restart host using power management:
- ovirt_host:
    state: restarted
    name: myhost

# Upgrade host
- ovirt_host:
    state: upgraded
    name: myhost

# discover iscsi targets
- ovirt_host:
    state: iscsidiscover
    name: myhost
    iscsi:
      username: iscsi_user
      password: secret
      address: 10.34.61.145
      port: 3260


# login to iscsi targets
- ovirt_host:
    state: iscsilogin
    name: myhost
    iscsi:
      username: iscsi_user
      password: secret
      address: 10.34.61.145
      target: "iqn.2015-07.com.mlipchuk2.redhat:444"
      port: 3260


# Reinstall host using public key
- ovirt_host:
    state: reinstalled
    name: myhost
    public_key: true

# Remove host
- ovirt_host:
    state: absent
    name: myhost
    force: True

# Retry removing host when failed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1719271)
- ovirt_host:
    state: absent
    name: myhost
  register: result
  until: not result.failed
  retries: 6
  delay: 20

# Change host Name
- ovirt_host:
    id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    name: "new host name"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
host
dictionary
On success if host is found.
Dictionary of all the host attributes. Host attributes can be found on your oVirt/RHV instance at following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/host.
id
string
On success if host is found.
ID of the host which is managed

Sample:
7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c
iscsi_targets
list
On success if host is found and state is iscsidiscover.
List of host iscsi targets


Status

Authors

  • Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

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