netapp.ontap.na_ontap_partitions module – NetApp ONTAP Assign partitions and disks to nodes.

Note

This module is part of the netapp.ontap collection (version 22.13.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: netapp.ontap.na_ontap_partitions.

New in netapp.ontap 21.8.0

Synopsis

  • Assign the specified number of partitions or disks eligible for partitioning to a node.

  • There is some overlap between this module and the na_ontap_disks module.

  • If you don’t have ADP v1 or v2 then you should be using the na_ontap_disks module to assign whole disks.

  • Partitions/disks are added in the following order

    1. Any unassigned partitions are added.

    1. Any unassigned disks of the correct type are added and will be partitioned when added to an aggregate if required.

    1. Any spare partner partitions will be re-assigned.

    1. Any partner spare disks will be re-assigned and be partitioned when added to an aggregate.

  • If you specify a partition_count less than the current number of partitions, then spare partitions will be unassigned.

  • If a previously partitioned disk has the partitions removed, and even if it is “slow zeroed” the system will consider it a shared partitioned disk rather than a spare.

  • In a root-data-data configuration (ADPv2) if you specify data1 as the partition_type then only P1 partitions will be counted.

  • Disk autoassign must be turned off before using this module to prevent the disks being reassigned automatically by the cluster.

  • This can be done through na_ontap_disk_options or via the cli “disk option modify -node <node_name> -autoassign off”.

Requirements

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

  • Ansible 2.9 or later - 2.12 or later is recommended.

  • Python3 - 3.9 or later is recommended.

  • When using ZAPI, netapp-lib 2018.11.13 or later (install using ‘pip install netapp-lib’), netapp-lib 2020.3.12 is strongly recommended as it provides better error reporting for connection issues.

  • A physical or virtual clustered Data ONTAP system, the modules support Data ONTAP 9.1 and onward, REST support requires ONTAP 9.6 or later.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

cert_filepath

string

added in netapp.ontap 20.6.0

path to SSL client cert file (.pem).

not supported with python 2.6.

disk_type

string / required

The type of disk that the partitions that should use.

Choices:

  • "ATA"

  • "BSAS"

  • "FCAL"

  • "FSAS"

  • "LUN"

  • "MSATA"

  • "SAS"

  • "SSD"

  • "SSD_NVM"

  • "VMDISK"

  • "unknown"

feature_flags

dictionary

added in netapp.ontap 20.5.0

Enable or disable a new feature.

This can be used to enable an experimental feature or disable a new feature that breaks backward compatibility.

Supported keys and values are subject to change without notice. Unknown keys are ignored.

force_ontap_version

string

added in netapp.ontap 21.23.0

Override the cluster ONTAP version when using REST.

The behavior is undefined if the version does not match the target cluster.

This is provided as a work-around when the cluster version cannot be read because of permission issues. See https://github.com/ansible-collections/netapp.ontap/wiki/Known-issues.

This should be in the form 9.10 or 9.10.1 with each element being an integer number.

hostname

string / required

The hostname or IP address of the ONTAP instance.

http_port

integer

Override the default port (80 or 443) with this port

https

boolean

Enable and disable https.

Ignored when using REST as only https is supported.

Ignored when using SSL certificate authentication as it requires SSL.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

key_filepath

string

added in netapp.ontap 20.6.0

path to SSL client key file.

min_spares

integer

Minimum spares disks or partitions required per type for the node.

node

string / required

Specifies the node that the partitions and disks should be assigned to.

partition_count

integer / required

Total number of partitions that should be assigned to the owner.

partition_type

string / required

The type of partiton being assigned either root, data, data1 or data2,

Choices:

  • "data"

  • "root"

  • "data1"

  • "data2"

partitioning_method

string / required

The type of partiton method being used, either root_data or root_data1_data2.

Choices:

  • "root_data"

  • "root_data1_data2"

password

aliases: pass

string

Password for the specified user.

use_rest

string

This module only supports REST.

always – will always use the REST API. A warning is issued if the module does not support REST.

Default: "always"

username

aliases: user

string

This can be a Cluster-scoped or SVM-scoped account, depending on whether a Cluster-level or SVM-level API is required.

For more information, please read the documentation https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/nmsdk/9.4/.

Two authentication methods are supported

  1. basic authentication, using username and password,

  2. SSL certificate authentication, using a ssl client cert file, and optionally a private key file.

To use a certificate, the certificate must have been installed in the ONTAP cluster, and cert authentication must have been enabled.

validate_certs

boolean

If set to no, the SSL certificates will not be validated.

This should only set to False used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • The modules prefixed with na_ontap are built to support the ONTAP storage platform.

  • https is enabled by default and recommended. To enable http on the cluster you must run the following commands ‘set -privilege advanced;’ ‘system services web modify -http-enabled true;’

Examples

- name: Assign specified total partitions to node cluster-01
  na_ontap_disk_partitions_custom:
    node: cluster-01
    partition_count: 56
    disk_type: FSAS
    partition_type: data
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ admin username }}"
    password: "{{ admin password }}"

Authors

  • NetApp Ansible Team (@carchi8py)