hpe.nimble.hpe_nimble_snapshot_collection – Manage the HPE Nimble Storage snapshot collections

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples

Synopsis

• Manage the snapshot collections on an HPE Nimble Storage group.

Requirements

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

• Ansible 2.9 or later
• Python 3.6 or later
• HPE Nimble Storage SDK for Python
• HPE Nimble Storage arrays running NimbleOS 5.0 or later

Parameters

Notes

Examples

# if state is create , then create a snapshot collection if not present. Fails if already present.
# if state is present, then create a snapshot collection if not present. Succeeds if it already exists
- name: Create snapshot collection if not present
  hpe.nimble.hpe_nimble_snapshot_collection:
    host: "{{ host }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    state: "{{ state | default('present') }}"
    name: "{{ name | mandatory}}"
    volcoll: "{{ volcoll | mandatory}}"
    description: "{{ description }}"

- name: Delete snapshot collection (must be offline)
  hpe.nimble.hpe_nimble_snapshot_collection:
    host: "{{ host }}"
    username: "{{ username }}"
    password: "{{ password }}"
    name: "{{ name }}"
    volcoll: "{{ volcoll }}"
    state: absent

Authors

• HPE Nimble Storage Ansible Team (@ar-india) <nimble-dcs-storage-automation-eng@hpe.com>