purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg module – Manage volume groups on 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_vg.

New in version 1.0.0: of purestorage.flasharray

Synopsis

  • Create, delete or modify volume groups on Pure Storage FlashArrays.

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

Comments

api_token

string

FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.

bw_qos

string

Bandwidth limit for vgroup in M or G units. M will set MB/s G will set GB/s To clear an existing QoS setting use 0 (zero)

count

integer

Number of volume groups to be created in a multiple volume group creation

Only supported from Purity//FA v6.0.0 and higher

digits

integer

Number of digits to use for multiple volume group count. This will pad the index number with zeros where necessary

Only supported from Purity//FA v6.0.0 and higher

Range is between 1 and 10

Default: 1

eradicate

boolean

Define whether to eradicate the volume group on delete and leave in trash.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

fa_url

string

FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.

iops_qos

string

IOPs limit for vgroup - use value or K or M K will mean 1000 M will mean 1000000 To clear an existing IOPs setting use 0 (zero)

name

string / required

The name of the volume group.

Multi-volume-group support available from Purity//FA 6.0.0 ***NOTE*** Manual deletion or eradication of individual volume groups created using multi-volume-group will cause idempotency to fail

Multi-volume-group support only exists for volume group creation

priority_operator

string

added in 1.13.0 of purestorage.flasharray

DMM Priority Adjustment operator

Choices:

  • +

  • -

priority_value

integer

added in 1.13.0 of purestorage.flasharray

DMM Priority Adjustment value

Choices:

  • 0

  • 10

start

integer

Number at which to start the multiple volume group creation index

Only supported from Purity//FA v6.0.0 and higher

Default: 0

state

string

Define whether the volume group should exist or not.

Choices:

  • absent

  • present ← (default)

suffix

string

Suffix string, if required, for multiple volume group create

Volume group names will be formed as <name>#I<suffix>, where # is a placeholder for the volume index See associated descriptions

Only supported from Purity//FA v6.0.0 and higher

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 volune group
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    bw_qos: 50M
    iops_qos: 100
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Create 10 volune groups of pattern foo#bar with QoS
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    suffix: bar
    count: 10
    start: 10
    digits: 3
    bw_qos: 50M
    iops_qos: 100
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Update volune group QoS limits
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    bw_qos: 0
    iops_qos: 5555
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Update volune group DMM Priority Adjustment (Purity//FA 6.1.2+)
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    priority_operator: '-'
    priority_value: 10
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Destroy volume group
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent

- name: Recover deleted volune group - no changes are made to the volume group on recovery
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592

- name: Destroy and Eradicate volume group
  purestorage.flasharray.purefa_vg:
    name: foo
    eradicate: true
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent

Authors

  • Pure Storage Ansible Team (@sdodsley)