dellemc.unity.consistencygroup module – Manage consistency groups on Unity storage system

Note

This module is part of the dellemc.unity collection (version 1.7.1).

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 dellemc.unity. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: dellemc.unity.consistencygroup.

New in dellemc.unity 1.1.0

Synopsis

  • Managing the consistency group on the Unity storage system includes creating new consistency group, adding volumes to consistency group, removing volumes from consistency group, mapping hosts to consistency group, unmapping hosts from consistency group, renaming consistency group, modifying attributes of consistency group, enabling replication in consistency group, disabling replication in consistency group and deleting consistency group.

Aliases: dellemc_unity_consistencygroup

Requirements

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

  • A Dell Unity Storage device version 5.1 or later.

  • Ansible-core 2.13 or later.

  • Python 3.9, 3.10 or 3.11.

  • Storops Python SDK 1.2.11.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cg_id

string

The ID of the consistency group.

It can be used only for get, modify, add/remove volumes, or delete operations.

cg_name

string

The name of the consistency group.

It is mandatory for the create operation.

Specify either cg_name or cg_id (but not both) for any operation.

description

string

Description of the consistency group.

hosts

list / elements=dictionary

This is a list of hosts.

Either the host ID or name must be provided for mapping/unmapping hosts for a consistency group.

If hosts are given, then mapping_state should also be specified.

Hosts cannot be mapped to a consistency group, if the consistency group has no volumes.

When a consistency group is being mapped to the host, users should not use the volume module to map the volumes in the consistency group to hosts.

host_id

string

The ID of the host.

host_name

string

The name of the host.

mapping_state

string

String variable, describes the state of hosts inside the consistency group.

If hosts are given, then mapping_state should also be specified.

Choices:

  • "mapped"

  • "unmapped"

new_cg_name

string

The new name of the consistency group, used in rename operation.

password

string / required

The password of the Unity management server.

port

integer

Port number through which communication happens with Unity management server.

Default: 443

replication_params

dictionary

Settings required for enabling replication.

destination_cg_name

string

Name of the destination consistency group.

Default value will be source consistency group name prefixed by ‘DR_’.

destination_pool_id

string

Id of pool to allocate destination Luns.

Mutually exclusive with destination_pool_name.

destination_pool_name

string

Name of pool to allocate destination Luns.

Mutually exclusive with destination_pool_id.

remote_system

dictionary

Details of remote system to which the replication is being configured.

The remote_system option should be specified if the replication_type is remote.

remote_system_host

string / required

IP or FQDN for remote Unity unisphere Host.

remote_system_password

string / required

Password of remote Unity unisphere Host.

remote_system_port

integer

Port at which remote Unity unisphere is hosted.

Default: 443

remote_system_username

string / required

User name of remote Unity unisphere Host.

remote_system_verifycert

boolean

Boolean variable to specify whether or not to validate SSL certificate of remote Unity unisphere Host.

true - Indicates that the SSL certificate should be verified.

false - Indicates that the SSL certificate should not be verified.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

replication_mode

string / required

The replication mode.

Choices:

  • "asynchronous"

  • "manual"

replication_type

string

Type of replication.

Choices:

  • "local" ← (default)

  • "remote"

rpo

integer

Maximum time to wait before the system syncs the source and destination LUNs.

Option rpo should be specified if the replication_mode is asynchronous.

The value should be in range of 5 to 1440.

replication_state

string

State of the replication.

Choices:

  • "enable"

  • "disable"

snap_schedule

string

Snapshot schedule assigned to the consistency group.

Specifying an empty string “” removes the existing snapshot schedule from consistency group.

state

string / required

Define whether the consistency group should exist or not.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present"

tiering_policy

string

Tiering policy choices for how the storage resource data will be distributed among the tiers available in the pool.

Choices:

  • "AUTOTIER_HIGH"

  • "AUTOTIER"

  • "HIGHEST"

  • "LOWEST"

unispherehost

string / required

IP or FQDN of the Unity management server.

username

string / required

The username of the Unity management server.

validate_certs

aliases: verifycert

boolean

Boolean variable to specify whether or not to validate SSL certificate.

true - Indicates that the SSL certificate should be verified.

false - Indicates that the SSL certificate should not be verified.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

vol_state

string

String variable, describes the state of volumes inside consistency group.

If volumes are given, then vol_state should also be specified.

Choices:

  • "present-in-group"

  • "absent-in-group"

volumes

list / elements=dictionary

This is a list of volumes.

Either the volume ID or name must be provided for adding/removing existing volumes from consistency group.

If volumes are given, then vol_state should also be specified.

Volumes cannot be added/removed from consistency group, if the consistency group or the volume has snapshots.

vol_id

string

The ID of the volume.

vol_name

string

The name of the volume.

Notes

Note

  • The check_mode is not supported.

  • The modules present in this collection named as ‘dellemc.unity’ are built to support the Dell Unity storage platform.

Examples

- name: Create consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      cg_name: "{{cg_name}}"
      description: "{{description}}"
      snap_schedule: "{{snap_schedule1}}"
      state: "present"

- name: Get details of consistency group using id
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_id: "{{cg_id}}"
      state: "present"

- name: Add volumes to consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_id: "{{cg_id}}"
      volumes:
          - vol_name: "Ansible_Test-3"
          - vol_id: "sv_1744"
      vol_state: "{{vol_state_present}}"
      state: "present"

- name: Rename consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_name: "{{cg_name}}"
      new_cg_name: "{{new_cg_name}}"
      state: "present"

- name: Modify consistency group details
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_name: "{{new_cg_name}}"
      snap_schedule: "{{snap_schedule2}}"
      tiering_policy: "{{tiering_policy1}}"
      state: "present"

- name: Map hosts to a consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_id: "{{cg_id}}"
      hosts:
        - host_name: "10.226.198.248"
        - host_id: "Host_511"
      mapping_state: "mapped"
      state: "present"

- name: Unmap hosts from a consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_id: "{{cg_id}}"
      hosts:
        - host_id: "Host_511"
        - host_name: "10.226.198.248"
      mapping_state: "unmapped"
      state: "present"

- name: Remove volumes from consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_name: "{{new_cg_name}}"
      volumes:
        - vol_name: "Ansible_Test-3"
        - vol_id: "sv_1744"
      vol_state: "{{vol_state_absent}}"
      state: "present"

- name: Delete consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_name: "{{new_cg_name}}"
      state: "absent"

- name: Enable replication for consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_id: "cg_id_1"
      replication_params:
        destination_cg_name: "destination_cg_1"
        replication_mode: "asynchronous"
        rpo: 60
        replication_type: "remote"
        remote_system:
          remote_system_host: '10.1.2.3'
          remote_system_verifycert: false
          remote_system_username: 'username'
          remote_system_password: 'password'
        destination_pool_name: "pool_test_1"
      replication_state: "enable"
      state: "present"

- name: Disable replication for consistency group
  dellemc.unity.consistencygroup:
      unispherehost: "{{unispherehost}}"
      username: "{{username}}"
      password: "{{password}}"
      validate_certs: "{{validate_certs}}"
      cg_name: "dis_repl_ans_source"
      replication_state: "disable"
      state: "present"

Return Values

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

Key

Description

changed

boolean

Whether or not the resource has changed.

Returned: always

Sample: true

consistency_group_details

dictionary

Details of the consistency group.

Returned: When consistency group exists

Sample: {"advanced_dedup_status": "DedupStatusEnum.DISABLED", "block_host_access": null, "cg_replication_enabled": false, "data_reduction_percent": 0, "data_reduction_ratio": 1.0, "data_reduction_size_saved": 0, "data_reduction_status": "DataReductionStatusEnum.DISABLED", "datastores": null, "dedup_status": null, "description": "Ansible testing", "esx_filesystem_block_size": null, "esx_filesystem_major_version": null, "existed": true, "filesystem": null, "hash": 8776023812033, "health": {"UnityHealth": {"hash": 8776023811889}}, "host_v_vol_datastore": null, "id": "res_7477", "is_replication_destination": false, "is_snap_schedule_paused": null, "luns": null, "metadata_size": 0, "metadata_size_allocated": 0, "name": "Ansible_CG_Testing", "per_tier_size_used": null, "pools": null, "relocation_policy": "TieringPolicyEnum.MIXED", "replication_type": "ReplicationTypeEnum.NONE", "size_allocated": 0, "size_total": 0, "size_used": null, "snap_count": 0, "snap_schedule": null, "snaps_size_allocated": 0, "snaps_size_total": 0, "snapshots": [], "thin_status": "ThinStatusEnum.FALSE", "type": "StorageResourceTypeEnum.CONSISTENCY_GROUP", "virtual_volumes": null, "vmware_uuid": null}

block_host_access

dictionary

Details of hosts mapped to the consistency group.

Returned: success

UnityBlockHostAccessList

list / elements=string

List of hosts mapped to consistency group.

Returned: success

UnityBlockHostAccess

dictionary

Details of host.

Returned: success

id

string

The ID of the host.

Returned: success

name

string

The name of the host.

Returned: success

cg_replication_enabled

boolean

Whether or not the replication is enabled..

Returned: success

id

string

The system ID given to the consistency group.

Returned: success

luns

dictionary

Details of volumes part of consistency group.

Returned: success

UnityLunList

list / elements=string

List of volumes part of consistency group.

Returned: success

UnityLun

dictionary

Detail of volume.

Returned: success

id

string

The system ID given to volume.

Returned: success

name

string

The name of the volume.

Returned: success

relocation_policy

string

FAST VP tiering policy for the consistency group.

Returned: success

snap_schedule

dictionary

Snapshot schedule applied to consistency group.

Returned: success

UnitySnapSchedule

dictionary

Snapshot schedule applied to consistency group.

Returned: success

id

string

The system ID given to the snapshot schedule.

Returned: success

name

string

The name of the snapshot schedule.

Returned: success

snapshots

list / elements=string

List of snapshots of consistency group.

Returned: success

creation_time

string

Date and time on which the snapshot was taken.

Returned: success

expirationTime

string

Date and time after which the snapshot will expire.

Returned: success

name

string

Name of the snapshot.

Returned: success

storageResource

dictionary

Storage resource for which the snapshot was taken.

Returned: success

UnityStorageResource

dictionary

Details of the storage resource.

Returned: success

id

string

The id of the storage resource.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Akash Shendge (@shenda1)