ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot module – Module to manage Virtual Machine Snapshots 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_snapshot.

New in ovirt.ovirt 1.0.0

Synopsis

  • Module to manage Virtual Machine Snapshots 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

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.

description

string

Description of the snapshot.

disk_id

string

Disk id which you want to upload or download

To get disk, you need to define disk_id or disk_name

disk_name

string

Disk name which you want to upload or download

disks

list / elements=dictionary

List of disks which should be created with snapshot.

id

string

Id of the disk which should will be created.

name

string

Name of the disk which should will be created.

download_image_path

string

Path on a file system where snapshot should be downloaded.

Note that you must have an valid oVirt/RHV engine CA in your system trust store or you must provide it in ca_file parameter.

Note that the snapshot is not downloaded when the file already exists, but you can forcibly download the snapshot when using force I (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

keep_days_old

integer

Number of days after which should snapshot be deleted.

It will check all snapshots of virtual machine and delete them, if they are older.

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.

poll_interval

integer

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

Default: 3

snapshot_id

string

ID of the snapshot to manage.

state

string

Should the Virtual Machine snapshot be restore/present/absent.

Choices:

  • "restore"

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

timeout

integer

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

Default: 180

upload_image_path

string

Path to disk image, which should be uploaded.

use_memory

aliases: restore_memory, save_memory

boolean

If true and state is present save memory of the Virtual Machine if it’s running.

If true and state is restore restore memory of the Virtual Machine.

Note that Virtual Machine will be paused while saving the memory.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

vm_id

string

added in ovirt.ovirt 2.2.0

ID of the Virtual Machine to manage. Required one of vm_name or vm_id.

vm_name

string

Name of the Virtual Machine to manage. Required one of vm_name or vm_id.

wait

boolean

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

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Notes

Note

  • Note that without a guest agent the data on the created snapshot may be inconsistent.

  • Deleting a snapshot does not remove any information from the virtual machine - it simply removes a return-point. However, restoring a virtual machine from a snapshot deletes any content that was written to the virtual machine after the time the snapshot was taken.

  • 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:

# Create snapshot:
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    vm_name: rhel7
    description: MySnapshot
  register: snapshot

# Create snapshot and save memory:
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    vm_name: rhel7
    description: SnapWithMem
    use_memory: true
  register: snapshot

# Restore snapshot:
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    state: restore
    vm_name: rhel7
    snapshot_id: "{{ snapshot.id }}"

# Remove snapshot:
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    state: absent
    vm_name: rhel7
    snapshot_id: "{{ snapshot.id }}"

# Upload local image to disk and attach it to vm:
# Since Ansible 2.8
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    name: mydisk
    vm_name: myvm
    upload_image_path: /path/to/mydisk.qcow2

# Download snapshot to local file system:
# Since Ansible 2.8
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    snapshot_id: 7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c
    disk_name: DiskName
    vm_name: myvm
    download_image_path: /home/user/mysnaphost.qcow2

# Delete all snapshots older than 2 days
- ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    vm_name: test
    keep_days_old: 2

- name: Select which disks should be add to snapshot
  ovirt.ovirt.ovirt_snapshot:
    vm_name: test
    disks:
      - id: 7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c
      - name: my_disk_name

Return Values

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

Key

Description

id

string

ID of the snapshot which is managed

Returned: On success if snapshot is found.

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

snapshot

dictionary

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

Returned: On success if snapshot is found.

snapshots

list / elements=string

List of deleted snapshots when keep_days_old is defined and snapshot is older than the input days

Returned: On success returns deleted snapshots

Authors

  • Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

  • Martin Necas (@mnecas)