purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod module – Manage AC pods in Pure Storage FlashArrays

Note

This module is part of the purestorage.flasharray collection (version 1.13.0).

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 purestorage.flasharray.

To use it in a playbook, specify: purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod.

New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flasharray

Synopsis

  • Manage AC pods in a Pure Storage FlashArray.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 3.3

  • purestorage >= 1.19

  • py-pure-client >= 1.22.0

  • netaddr

  • requests

  • pycountry

  • packaging

Parameters

Parameter

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api_token

string

FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.

eradicate

boolean

Define whether to eradicate the pod on delete or leave in trash.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

fa_url

string

FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.

failover

list / elements=string

The name of the array given priority to stay online if arrays loose contact with eachother.

Oprions are either array in the cluster, or auto

mediator

string

Name of the mediator to use for a pod

Default: “purestorage”

name

string / required

The name of the pod.

promote

boolean

Promote/demote any pod not in a stretched relationship. .

Demoting a pod will render it read-only.

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

quiesce

boolean

Quiesce/Skip quiesce when promote is false and demoting an ActiveDR pod.

Quiesce will ensure all local data has been replicated before demotion.

Skipping quiesce looses all pending data to be replicated to the remote pod.

Can only demote the pod if it is in a Acrive DR replica link relationship.

This will default to True

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

state

string

Define whether the pod should exist or not.

Choices:

  • absent

  • present ← (default)

stretch

string

The name of the array to stretch to/unstretch from. Must be synchromously replicated.

To unstretch an array use state absent

You can only specify a remote array, ie you cannot unstretch a pod from the current array and then restretch back to the current array.

To restretch a pod you must perform this from the remaining array the pod resides on.

target

string

Name of clone target pod.

undo

boolean

Use the undo-remote pod when promote is true and promoting an ActiveDR pod.

This will default to True

Choices:

  • no

  • yes

Notes

Note

  • This module requires the purestorage and py-pure-client Python libraries

  • Additional Python librarues may be required for specific modules.

  • 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 new pod named foo
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: present

- name: Delete and eradicate pod named foo
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    eradicate: yes
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent

- name: Set failover array for pod named foo
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    failover:
    - array1
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Set mediator for pod named foo
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    mediator: bar
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Stretch a pod named foo to array2
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    stretch: array2
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Unstretch a pod named foo from array2
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    stretch: array2
    state: absent
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Create clone of pod foo named bar
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_pod:
    name: foo
    target: bar
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: present

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)