cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template module – Configures vHBA templates on Cisco UCS Manager

Note

This module is part of the cisco.ucs collection (version 1.14.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template.

Synopsis

  • Configures vHBA templates on Cisco UCS Manager.

Requirements

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

  • ucsmsdk

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

description

aliases: descr

string

A user-defined description of the template.

Enter up to 256 characters.

You can use any characters or spaces except the following:

` (accent mark), (backslash), ^ (carat), ” (double quote), = (equal sign), > (greater than), < (less than), or ‘ (single quote).

fabric

string

The Fabric ID field.

The name of the fabric interconnect that vHBAs created with this template are associated with.

Choices:

  • "A" ← (default)

  • "B"

hostname

string / required

IP address or hostname of Cisco UCS Manager.

Modules can be used with the UCS Platform Emulator https://cs.co/ucspe

max_data

string

The Max Data Field Size field.

The maximum size of the Fibre Channel frame payload bytes that the vHBA supports.

Enter an string between ‘256’ and ‘2112’.

Default: "2048"

name

string / required

The name of the virtual HBA template.

This name can be between 1 and 16 alphanumeric characters.

You cannot use spaces or any special characters other than - (hyphen), “_” (underscore), : (colon), and . (period).

You cannot change this name after the template is created.

org_dn

string

Org dn (distinguished name)

Default: "org-root"

password

string / required

Password for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

pin_group

string

The SAN pin group that is associated with vHBAs created from this template.

port

integer

Port number to be used during connection (by default uses 443 for https and 80 for http connection).

proxy

string

If use_proxy is no, specfies proxy to be used for connection. e.g. ‘http://proxy.xy.z:8080’

qos_policy

string

The QoS policy that is associated with vHBAs created from this template.

redundancy_type

string

The Redundancy Type used for template pairing from the Primary or Secondary redundancy template.

primary — Creates configurations that can be shared with the Secondary template.

Any other shared changes on the Primary template are automatically synchronized to the Secondary template.

secondary — All shared configurations are inherited from the Primary template.

none - Legacy vHBA template behavior. Select this option if you do not want to use redundancy.

Choices:

  • "none" ← (default)

  • "primary"

  • "secondary"

state

string

If present, will verify vHBA templates are present and will create if needed.

If absent, will verify vHBA templates are absent and will delete if needed.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

stats_policy

string

The statistics collection policy that is associated with vHBAs created from this template.

Default: "default"

template_type

string

The Template Type field.

This can be one of the following:

initial-template — vHBAs created from this template are not updated if the template changes.

updating-template - vHBAs created from this template are updated if the template changes.

Choices:

  • "initial-template" ← (default)

  • "updating-template"

use_proxy

boolean

If no, will not use the proxy as defined by system environment variable.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

use_ssl

boolean

If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

username

string

Username for Cisco UCS Manager authentication.

Default: "admin"

vsan

string

The VSAN to associate with vHBAs created from this template.

Default: "default"

wwpn_pool

string

The WWPN pool that a vHBA created from this template uses to derive its WWPN address.

Default: "default"

Examples

- name: Configure vHBA template
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    name: vHBA-A
    fabric: A
    vsan: VSAN-A
    wwpn_pool: WWPN-Pool-A

- name: Remote vHBA template
  cisco.ucs.ucs_vhba_template:
    hostname: 172.16.143.150
    username: admin
    password: password
    name: vHBA-A
    state: absent

Authors

  • David Soper (@dsoper2)

  • John McDonough (@movinalot)

  • CiscoUcs (@CiscoUcs)