community.vmware.vmware_cluster_vsan module – Manages virtual storage area network (vSAN) configuration on VMware vSphere clusters

Note

This module is part of the community.vmware collection (version 6.0.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.vmware.vmware_cluster_vsan.

Synopsis

  • Manages vSAN on VMware vSphere clusters.

Requirements

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

  • vSAN Management SDK, which needs to be downloaded from VMware and installed manually.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

advanced_options

dictionary

Advanced VSAN Options.

automatic_rebalance

boolean

If enabled, vSAN automatically rebalances (moves the data among disks) when a capacity disk fullness hits proactive rebalance threshold.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

disable_site_read_locality

boolean

For vSAN stretched clusters, reads to vSAN objects occur on the site the VM resides on.

Setting to true will force reads across all mirrors.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

large_cluster_support

boolean

Allow > 32 VSAN hosts per cluster; if this is changed on an existing vSAN cluster, all hosts are required to reboot to apply this change.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

object_repair_timer

integer

Delay time in minutes for VSAN to wait for the absent component to come back before starting to repair it.

thin_swap

boolean

When true, swap objects would not reserve 100% space of their size on vSAN datastore.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

cluster_name

string / required

The name of the cluster to be managed.

datacenter

aliases: datacenter_name

string / required

The name of the datacenter.

enable

boolean

Whether to enable vSAN.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_HOST will be used instead.

password

aliases: pass, pwd

string

The password of the vSphere vCenter server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PASSWORD will be used instead.

port

integer

The port number of the vSphere vCenter server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PORT will be used instead.

Default: 443

proxy_host

string

The 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 VMWARE_PROXY_HOST will be used instead.

proxy_port

integer

The 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 VMWARE_PROXY_PORT will be used instead.

username

aliases: admin, user

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_USER will be used instead.

validate_certs

boolean

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

vsan_auto_claim_storage

boolean

Whether the VSAN service is configured to automatically claim local storage on VSAN-enabled hosts in the cluster.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Notes

Note

  • All modules require API write access and hence are not supported on a free ESXi license.

  • All variables and VMware object names are case sensitive.

  • Modules may rely on the ‘requests’ python library, which does not use the system certificate store by default. You can specify the certificate store by setting the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable. Note having this variable set may cause a ‘false’ value for the ‘validate_certs’ option to be ignored in some cases. Example: ‘export REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/your/ca_bundle.pem’

Examples

- name: Enable vSAN
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_vsan:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: datacenter
    cluster_name: cluster
    enable: true
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Enable vSAN and automatic rebalancing
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_vsan:
    hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
    username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
    password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
    datacenter_name: datacenter
    cluster_name: cluster
    enable: true
    advanced_options:
      automatic_rebalance: true
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Enable vSAN and claim storage automatically
  community.vmware.vmware_cluster_vsan:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    datacenter_name: DC0
    cluster_name: "{{ cluster_name }}"
    enable: true
    vsan_auto_claim_storage: true
  delegate_to: localhost

Authors

  • Joseph Callen (@jcpowermac)

  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde)

  • Mario Lenz (@mariolenz)