purefa_snap - Manage volume snapshots on Pure Storage FlashArrays

New in version 2.4.

Synopsis

• Create or delete volumes and volume snapshots on Pure Storage FlashArray.

Requirements

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

• python >= 2.7
• purestorage

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
api_token required		FlashArray API token for admin privilaged user.
eradicate bool	Choices: no ← yes	Define whether to eradicate the snapshot on delete or leave in trash.
fa_url required		FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
name required		The name of the source volume.
overwrite bool	Choices: no ← yes	Define whether to overwrite existing volume when creating from snapshot.
state	Choices: absent copy present ←	Define whether the volume snapshot should exist or not.
suffix		Suffix of snapshot name.
target		Name of target volume if creating from snapshot.

Notes

Note

• This module requires purestorage python library
• You must set PUREFA_URL and PUREFA_API environment variables if url and api_token arguments are not passed to the module directly

Examples

- name: Create snapshot foo.ansible
  purefa_snap:
    name: foo
    suffix: ansible
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: present

- name: Create R/W clone foo_clone from snapshot foo.snap
  purefa_snap:
    name: foo
    suffix: snap
    target: foo_clone
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: copy

- name: Overwrite existing volume foo_clone with snapshot foo.snap
  purefa_snap:
    name: foo
    suffix: snap
    target: foo_clone
    overwrite: true
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: copy

- name: Delete and eradicate snapshot named foo.snap
  purefa_snap:
    name: foo
    suffix: snap
    eradicate: true
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: absent

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

• Simon Dodsley (@sdodsley)

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