community.general.ibm_sa_vol – Handle volumes on IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family storage systems.

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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 community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.ibm_sa_vol.

Synopsis

  • This module creates or deletes volumes to be used on IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family storage systems.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • pyxcli

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
endpoints
string / required
The hostname or management IP of Spectrum Accelerate storage system.
password
string / required
Password for username on the spectrum accelerate storage system.
pool
string
Volume pool.
size
string
Volume size.
state
string
    Choices:
  • present ←
  • absent
Volume state.
username
string / required
Management user on the spectrum accelerate storage system.
vol
string / required
Volume name.

Notes

Note

  • This module requires pyxcli python library. Use ‘pip install pyxcli’ in order to get pyxcli.

Examples

- name: Create a new volume.
  community.general.ibm_sa_vol:
    vol: volume_name
    pool: pool_name
    size: 17
    state: present
    username: admin
    password: secret
    endpoints: hostdev-system

- name: Delete an existing volume.
  community.general.ibm_sa_vol:
    vol: volume_name
    state: absent
    username: admin
    password: secret
    endpoints: hostdev-system

Authors

  • Tzur Eliyahu (@tzure)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/ibm_sa_vol_module.html