netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency module – NetApp ONTAP enables, disables or modifies volume efficiency

Note

This module is part of the netapp.ontap collection (version 22.10.0).

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_volume_efficiency.

New in netapp.ontap 21.2.0

Synopsis

  • Enable, modify or disable volume efficiency.

  • Either path or volume_name is required.

  • Only admin user can modify volume efficiency.

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.

enable_compression

boolean

Specifies if compression is to be enabled.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

enable_cross_volume_background_dedupe

boolean

Specifies if cross volume background deduplication is to be enabled, this can only be enabled when inline deduplication is enabled.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

enable_cross_volume_inline_dedupe

boolean

Specifies if in-line cross volume inline deduplication is to be enabled, this can only be enabled when inline deduplication is enabled.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

enable_data_compaction

boolean

Specifies if compaction is to be enabled.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

enable_inline_compression

boolean

Specifies if in-line compression is to be enabled.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

enable_inline_dedupe

boolean

Specifies if in-line deduplication is to be enabled, only supported on AFF systems or hybrid aggregates.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

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.

When use_rest is set to auto, this may force a switch to ZAPI based on the version and platform capabilities.

Ignored with ZAPI.

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.

ontapi

integer

The ontap api version to use

password

aliases: pass

string

Password for the specified user.

path

string

Specifies the path for the volume.

Either path or volume_name is required.

Requires ONTAP 9.9.1 or later with REST.

policy

string

Specifies the storage efficiency policy to use.

By default, the following names are available ‘auto’, ‘default’, ‘inline-only’, ‘-‘.

Requires ONTAP 9.7 or later with REST.

schedule

string

Specifies the storage efficiency schedule.

Only supported with ZAPI.

start_ve_build_metadata

boolean

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies the scanner to scan the entire and generate fingerprint database without attempting the sharing.

Only supported with ZAPI.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

start_ve_delete_checkpoint

boolean

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies the scanner to delete existing checkpoint and start the operation from the begining.

Only supported with ZAPI.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

start_ve_qos_policy

string

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies the QoS policy for the operation.

Default is best-effort in ZAPI.

Only supported with ZAPI.

Choices:

  • "background"

  • "best-effort"

start_ve_queue_operation

boolean

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies the operation to queue if an exisitng operation is already running on the volume and in the fingerprint verification phase.

Only supported with ZAPI.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

start_ve_scan_all

boolean

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies the scanner to scan the entire volume without applying share block optimization.

Only supported with ZAPI.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

start_ve_scan_old_data

boolean

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies the operation to scan the file system to process all the existing data.

Requires ONTAP 9.11.1 or later with REST.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

state

string

Whether the specified volume efficiency should be enabled or not.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

stop_ve_all_operations

boolean

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Specifies that all running and queued operations to be stopped.

Only supported with ZAPI.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

storage_efficiency_mode

string

added in netapp.ontap 21.14.0

Storage efficiency mode used by volume. This parameter is only supported on AFF platforms.

Requires ONTAP 9.10.1 or later.

Choices:

  • "default"

  • "efficient"

use_rest

string

Whether to use REST or ZAPI.

always – will always use the REST API if the module supports REST. A warning is issued if the module does not support REST. An error is issued if a module option is not supported in REST.

never – will always use ZAPI if the module supports ZAPI. An error may be issued if a REST option is not supported in ZAPI.

auto – will try to use the REST API if the module supports REST and modules options are supported. Reverts to ZAPI otherwise.

Default: "auto"

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)

volume_efficiency

string

added in netapp.ontap 21.4.0

Start or Stop a volume efficiency operation on a given volume path.

Requires ONTAP 9.11.1 or later with REST.

Choices:

  • "start"

  • "stop"

volume_name

string

added in netapp.ontap 22.3.0

Specifies the volume name.

vserver

string / required

Specifies the vserver for the volume.

Notes

Note

  • supports ZAPI and REST. REST requires ONTAP 9.6 or later.

  • supports check mode.

  • 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: Enable Volume efficiency
  netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency:
    state: present
    vserver: "TESTSVM"
    path: "/vol/test_sis"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    https: true
    validate_certs: false

- name: Disable Volume efficiency test
  netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency:
    state: absent
    vserver: "TESTSVM"
    path: "/vol/test_sis"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    https: true
    validate_certs: false

- name: Modify storage efficiency schedule with ZAPI.
  netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency:
    state: present
    vserver: "TESTSVM"
    path: "/vol/test_sis"
    schedule: "mon-sun@0,1,23"
    enable_compression: true
    enable_inline_compression: true
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    https: true
    validate_certs: false

- name: Start volume efficiency
  netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency:
    state: present
    vserver: "TESTSVM"
    path: "/vol/test_sis"
    volume_efficiency: "start"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    https: true
    validate_certs: false

- name: Stop volume efficiency
  netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency:
    state: present
    vserver: "TESTSVM"
    path: "/vol/test_sis"
    volume_efficiency: "stop"
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    https: true
    validate_certs: false

- name: modify volume efficiency with volume name in REST.
  netapp.ontap.na_ontap_volume_efficiency:
    state: present
    vserver: "TESTSVM"
    volume_name: "test_sis"
    volume_efficiency: "stop"
    enable_compression: True
    hostname: "{{ hostname }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    https: true
    validate_certs: false

Authors

  • NetApp Ansible Team (@carchi8py)