vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_storage_policy module – Updates the storage policy configuration of a virtual machine and/or its associated virtual hard disks.

Note

This module is part of the vmware.vmware_rest collection (version 4.2.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_storage_policy.

New in vmware.vmware_rest 0.1.0

Synopsis

  • Updates the storage policy configuration of a virtual machine and/or its associated virtual hard disks.

Requirements

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

  • vSphere 7.0.3 or greater

  • python >= 3.6

  • aiohttp

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

disks

dictionary

Storage policy or policies to be used when reconfiguring virtual machine diks.

if unset the current storage policy is retained.

When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the key in the field map must be the id of a resource returned by vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_hardware_disk.

session_timeout

float

added in vmware.vmware_rest 2.1.0

Timeout settings for client session.

The maximal number of seconds for the whole operation including connection establishment, request sending and response.

The default value is 300s.

state

string

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

vcenter_hostname

string / required

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter

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

vcenter_password

string / required

The vSphere vCenter password

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

vcenter_rest_log_file

string

You can use this optional parameter to set the location of a log file.

This file will be used to record the HTTP REST interaction.

The file will be stored on the host that runs the module.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of

environment variable VMWARE_REST_LOG_FILE will be used instead.

vcenter_username

string / required

The vSphere vCenter username

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

vcenter_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)

vm

string / required

Virtual machine identifier.

The parameter must be the id of a resource returned by vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_info. This parameter is mandatory.

vm_home

dictionary / required

Storage policy to be used when reconfiguring the virtual machine home.

if unset the current storage policy is retained. This parameter is mandatory.

Valid attributes are:

  • type (str): This option defines the choices for how to specify the policy to be associated with the virtual machine home’s directory. ([‘present’])

This key is required with [‘present’].

  • Accepted values:

  • USE_DEFAULT_POLICY

  • USE_SPECIFIED_POLICY

  • policy (str): Storage Policy identification.

This field is optional and it is only relevant when the value of type is USE_SPECIFIED_POLICY.

When clients pass a value of this structure as a parameter, the field must be the id of a resource returned by vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_storage_policies_info. ([‘present’])

Notes

Note

  • Tested on vSphere 7.0.3

Examples

- name: Look up the VM called test_vm1 in the inventory
  register: search_result
  vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_info:
    filter_names:
    - test_vm1

- name: Collect information about a specific VM
  vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_info:
    vm: '{{ search_result.value[0].vm }}'
  register: test_vm1_info

- name: Prepare the disk policy dict
  ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    vm_disk_policy: "{{ {} | combine({ my_new_disk.id: {'policy': my_storage_policy.policy, 'type': 'USE_SPECIFIED_POLICY'} }) }}"

- name: Adjust VM storage policy
  vmware.vmware_rest.vcenter_vm_storage_policy:
    vm: '{{ test_vm1_info.id }}'
    vm_home:
      type: USE_DEFAULT_POLICY
    disks: '{{ vm_disk_policy }}'
  register: _result

Return Values

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

Key

Description

id

dictionary

moid of the resource

Returned: On success

value

dictionary

Adjust VM storage policy

Returned: On success

Sample: {}

Authors

  • Ansible Cloud Team (@ansible-collections)