ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host module – Module to manage hosts in oVirt/RHV

Note

This module is part of the ovirt.ovirt collection (version 3.2.0).

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

To use it in a playbook, specify: ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host.

New in ovirt.ovirt 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Module to manage hosts in oVirt/RHV

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7

  • ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.4.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

activate

boolean

If state is present activate the host.

This parameter is good to disable, when you don’t want to change the state of host when using present state.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

address

string

Host address. It can be either FQDN (preferred) or IP address.

auth

dictionary / required

Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:

ca_file

string

A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates.

The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates.

If ca_file parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used.

Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILE environment variable.

compress

boolean

Flag indicating if compression is used for connection.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

headers

dictionary

Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.

hostname

string

A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`.

Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAME environment variable.

Either url or hostname is required.

insecure

boolean

A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

kerberos

boolean

A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

password

string

The password of the user.

Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORD environment variable.

timeout

integer

Number of seconds to wait for response.

token

string

Token to be used instead of login with username/password.

Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKEN environment variable.

url

string

A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`.

Default value is set by OVIRT_URL environment variable.

Either url or hostname is required.

username

string

The name of the user, something like admin@internal.

Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAME environment variable.

check_upgrade

boolean

If true and state is upgraded run check for upgrade action before executing upgrade action.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

cluster

string

Name of the cluster, where host should be created.

comment

string

Description of the host.

enroll_certificate

boolean

Enrolls the certificate of the host. Useful in case you get a warning that it is about to expire or has already expired.

The host must be in maintenance status before enrolling the certificates.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

fetch_nested

boolean

If True the module will fetch additional data from the API.

It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

force

boolean

Indicates that the host should be removed even if it is non-responsive, or if it is part of a Gluster Storage cluster and has volume bricks on it.

WARNING: It doesn’t forcibly remove the host if another host related operation is being executed on the host at the same time.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

hosted_engine

string

If deploy it means this host should deploy also hosted engine components.

If undeploy it means this host should un-deploy hosted engine components and this host will not function as part of the High Availability cluster.

Choices:

  • "deploy"

  • "undeploy"

id

string

ID of the host to manage.

iscsi

dictionary

If state is iscsidiscover it means that the iscsi attribute is being used to discover targets

If state is iscsilogin it means that the iscsi attribute is being used to login to the specified targets passed as part of the iscsi attribute

address

string

Address of the iSCSI storage server.

password

string

A CHAP password for logging into a target.

port

string

The port being used to connect with iscsi.

portal

string

The portal being used to connect with iscsi.

target

string

The target IQN for the storage device.

username

string

A CHAP user name for logging into a target.

kdump_integration

string

Specify if host will have enabled Kdump integration.

Choices:

  • "enabled"

  • "disabled"

kernel_params

list / elements=string

List of kernel boot parameters.

Following are most common kernel parameters used for host:

Hostdev Passthrough & SR-IOV: intel_iommu=on

Nested Virtualization: kvm-intel.nested=1

Unsafe Interrupts: vfio_iommu_type1.allow_unsafe_interrupts=1

PCI Reallocation: pci=realloc

Note:

Modifying kernel boot parameters settings can lead to a host boot failure. Please consult the product documentation before doing any changes.

Kernel boot parameters changes require host deploy and restart. The host needs to be reinstalled successfully and then to be rebooted for kernel boot parameters to be applied.

name

string / required

Name of the host to manage.

nested_attributes

list / elements=string

Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API.

This parameter apply only when fetch_nested is true.

override_display

string

Override the display address of all VMs on this host with specified address.

override_iptables

boolean

If True host iptables will be overridden by host deploy script.

Note that override_iptables is false by default in oVirt/RHV.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

password

string

Password of the root. It’s required in case public_key is set to False.

poll_interval

integer

Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent.

Default: 3

power_management_enabled

boolean

Enable or disable power management of the host.

For more comprehensive setup of PM use ovirt_host_pm module.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

public_key

aliases: ssh_public_key

boolean

True if the public key should be used to authenticate to host.

It’s required in case password is not set.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

reboot_after_installation

boolean

If true reboot host after successful installation.

Default value on engine is true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

reboot_after_upgrade

boolean

If true and state is upgraded reboot host after successful upgrade.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

spm_priority

integer

SPM priority of the host. Integer value from 1 to 10, where higher number means higher priority.

ssh_port

integer

The host SSH port.

state

string

State which should a host to be in after successful completion.

iscsilogin and iscsidiscover are supported since version 2.4.

refreshed is supported since 3.1.0

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

  • "maintenance"

  • "upgraded"

  • "started"

  • "restarted"

  • "stopped"

  • "reinstalled"

  • "iscsidiscover"

  • "iscsilogin"

  • "refreshed"

timeout

integer

The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the host to get into desired state.

Default: 600

vgpu_placement

string

If consolidated, each vGPU is placed on the first physical card with available space. This is the default placement, utilizing all available space on the physical cards.

If separated, each vGPU is placed on a separate physical card, if possible. This can be useful for improving vGPU performance.

Choices:

  • "consolidated"

  • "separated"

wait

boolean

yes if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.4.0

Examples

# Examples don't contain auth parameter for simplicity,
# look at ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication:

# Add host with username/password supporting SR-IOV.
# Note that override_iptables is false by default in oVirt/RHV:
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    cluster: Default
    name: myhost
    address: 10.34.61.145
    password: secret
    override_iptables: true
    kernel_params:
      - intel_iommu=on

# Add host using public key
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    public_key: true
    cluster: Default
    name: myhost2
    address: 10.34.61.145
    override_iptables: true

# Deploy hosted engine host
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    cluster: Default
    name: myhost2
    password: secret
    address: 10.34.61.145
    override_iptables: true
    hosted_engine: deploy

# Maintenance
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: maintenance
    name: myhost

# Restart host using power management:
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: restarted
    name: myhost

# Upgrade host
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: upgraded
    name: myhost

# discover iscsi targets
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: iscsidiscover
    name: myhost
    iscsi:
      username: iscsi_user
      password: secret
      address: 10.34.61.145
      port: 3260


# login to iscsi targets
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: iscsilogin
    name: myhost
    iscsi:
      username: iscsi_user
      password: secret
      address: 10.34.61.145
      target: "iqn.2015-07.com.mlipchuk2.redhat:444"
      port: 3260


# Reinstall host using public key
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: reinstalled
    name: myhost
    public_key: true

# Remove host
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: absent
    name: myhost
    force: True

# Retry removing host when failed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1719271)
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: absent
    name: myhost
  register: result
  until: not result.failed
  retries: 6
  delay: 20

# Change host Name
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
    name: "new host name"

- name: Enroll host certificates
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_host:
    state: maintenance
    name: myhost
    enroll_certificate: True

Return Values

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

Key

Description

host

dictionary

Dictionary of all the host attributes. Host attributes can be found on your oVirt/RHV instance at following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/host.

Returned: On success if host is found.

id

string

ID of the host which is managed

Returned: On success if host is found.

Sample: "7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c"

iscsi_targets

list / elements=string

List of host iscsi targets

Returned: On success if host is found and state is iscsidiscover.

Authors

  • Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

  • Martin Necas (@mnecas)