community.vmware.vmware_host_datastore module – Manage a datastore on ESXi host
Note
This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 1.18.2).
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.vmware.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_host_datastore.
Synopsis
This module can be used to mount/umount datastore on ESXi host.
This module only supports NFS (NFS v3 or NFS v4.1) and VMFS datastores.
For VMFS datastore, available device must already be connected on ESXi host.
All parameters and VMware object names are case sensitive.
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
python >= 2.6
PyVmomi
Parameters
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Expand a datastore capacity to full if it has free capacity. This parameter can’t be extend using another datastore. A use case example in auto_expand, it can be used to expand a datastore capacity after increasing LUN volume. Choices:
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Name of the datastore to add/remove. |
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Type of the datastore to configure (nfs/nfs41/vmfs). Choices:
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ESXi hostname to manage the datastore. Required when used with a vcenter |
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The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. |
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Resource path on NFS host. Required if datastore type is set to |
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ReadOnly or ReadWrite mount. Unused if datastore type is not set to Choices:
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NFS host serving nfs datastore. Required if datastore type is set to Two or more servers can be defined if datastore type is set to |
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The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. |
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The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. Default: 443 |
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Address of a proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. The format is a hostname or a IP. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable This feature depends on a version of pyvmomi greater than v6.7.1.2018.12 |
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Port of the HTTP proxy that will receive all HTTPS requests and relay them. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable |
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present: Mount datastore on host if datastore is absent else do nothing. absent: Umount datastore if datastore is present else do nothing. Choices:
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The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server. If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. |
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Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6. If set to Choices:
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Name of the device to be used as VMFS datastore. Required for VMFS datastore type and state is set to |
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VMFS version to use for datastore creation. Unused if datastore type is not set to |
Notes
Note
Tested on vSphere 6.0, 6.5 and ESXi 6.7
NFS v4.1 tested on vSphere 6.5
Kerberos authentication with NFS v4.1 isn’t implemented
All modules requires API write access and hence is not supported on a free ESXi license.
Examples
- name: Mount VMFS datastores to ESXi
community.vmware.vmware_host_datastore:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
datastore_name: '{{ item.name }}'
datastore_type: '{{ item.type }}'
vmfs_device_name: 'naa.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
vmfs_version: 6
esxi_hostname: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
state: present
delegate_to: localhost
- name: Mount NFS datastores to ESXi
community.vmware.vmware_host_datastore:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
datastore_name: '{{ item.name }}'
datastore_type: '{{ item.type }}'
nfs_server: '{{ item.server }}'
nfs_path: '{{ item.path }}'
nfs_ro: no
esxi_hostname: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
state: present
delegate_to: localhost
loop:
- { 'name': 'NasDS_vol01', 'server': 'nas01', 'path': '/mnt/vol01', 'type': 'nfs'}
- { 'name': 'NasDS_vol02', 'server': 'nas01', 'path': '/mnt/vol02', 'type': 'nfs'}
- name: Mount NFS v4.1 datastores to ESXi
community.vmware.vmware_host_datastore:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
datastore_name: '{{ item.name }}'
datastore_type: '{{ item.type }}'
nfs_server: '{{ item.server }}'
nfs_path: '{{ item.path }}'
nfs_ro: no
esxi_hostname: '{{ inventory_hostname }}'
state: present
delegate_to: localhost
loop:
- { 'name': 'NasDS_vol03', 'server': 'nas01,nas02', 'path': '/mnt/vol01', 'type': 'nfs41'}
- { 'name': 'NasDS_vol04', 'server': 'nas01,nas02', 'path': '/mnt/vol02', 'type': 'nfs41'}
- name: Remove/Umount Datastores from a ESXi
community.vmware.vmware_host_datastore:
hostname: '{{ esxi_hostname }}'
username: '{{ esxi_username }}'
password: '{{ esxi_password }}'
datastore_name: NasDS_vol01
state: absent
delegate_to: localhost
Authors
Ludovic Rivallain (@lrivallain)
Christian Kotte (@ckotte)