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

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 3.3.0).

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

string / required

VNIC underlying link name.

mac

aliases: macaddr

string

Sets the VNIC’s MAC address. Must be valid unicast MAC address.

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

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)