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community.network.dladm_vnic – Manage VNICs on Solaris/illumos systems.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.network collection (version 3.0.0).

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 community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.dladm_vnic.

Synopsis

• Create or delete VNICs on Solaris/illumos systems.

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
link string / required	VNIC underlying link name.
mac aliases: macaddr string	Sets the VNIC’s MAC address. Must be valid unicast MAC address. Default: “no”
name string / required	VNIC name.
state string	Create or delete Solaris/illumos VNIC. Choices: present ← (default) absent
temporary boolean	Specifies that the VNIC is temporary. Temporary VNICs do not persist across reboots. Choices: no ← (default) yes
vlan aliases: vlan_id integer	Enable VLAN tagging for this VNIC. The VLAN tag will have id vlan. Default: “no”

Examples

- name: Create 'vnic0' VNIC over 'bnx0' link
  community.network.dladm_vnic:
    name: vnic0
    link: bnx0
    state: present

- name: Create VNIC with specified MAC and VLAN tag over 'aggr0'
  community.network.dladm_vnic:
    name: vnic1
    link: aggr0
    mac: '00:00:5E:00:53:23'
    vlan: 4

- name: Remove 'vnic0' VNIC
  community.network.dladm_vnic:
    name: vnic0
    link: bnx0
    state: absent

Return Values

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

Key	Description
link string	VNIC underlying link name Returned: always Sample: “igb0”
mac string	MAC address to use for VNIC Returned: if mac is specified Sample: “00:00:5E:00:53:42”
name string	VNIC name Returned: always Sample: “vnic0”
state string	state of the target Returned: always Sample: “present”
temporary boolean	VNIC’s persistence Returned: always Sample: “True”
vlan integer	VLAN to use for VNIC Returned: success Sample: 42

Authors

• Adam Števko (@xen0l)