zhmc_storage_volume – Create storage volumes

Synopsis

  • Gather facts about a storage volume in a storage group associated with a CPC (Z system).

  • Create, delete, or update a storage volume in a storage group associated with a CPC.

Requirements

  • The targeted Z system must be of generation z14 or later (to have the “dpm-storage-management” firmware feature) and must be in the Dynamic Partition Manager (DPM) operational mode.

  • The HMC userid must have these task permissions: ‘Configure Storage - System Programmer’.

  • The HMC userid must have object-access permissions to these objects: Target storage groups.

Parameters

hmc_host

The hostnames or IP addresses of a single HMC or of a list of redundant HMCs. A single HMC can be specified as a string type or as an HMC list with one item. An HMC list can be specified as a list type or as a string type containing a Python list representation.

The first available HMC of a list of redundant HMCs is used for the entire execution of the module.

required: True
type: raw
hmc_auth

The authentication credentials for the HMC.

required: True
type: dict
userid

The userid (username) for authenticating with the HMC. This is mutually exclusive with providing session_id.

required: False
type: str
password

The password for authenticating with the HMC. This is mutually exclusive with providing session_id.

required: False
type: str
session_id

HMC session ID to be used. This is mutually exclusive with providing userid and password and can be created as described in :ref:`zhmc_session_module`.

required: False
type: str
ca_certs

Path name of certificate file or certificate directory to be used for verifying the HMC certificate. If null (default), the path name in the ‘REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE’ environment variable or the path name in the ‘CURL_CA_BUNDLE’ environment variable is used, or if neither of these variables is set, the certificates in the Mozilla CA Certificate List provided by the ‘certifi’ Python package are used for verifying the HMC certificate.

required: False
type: str
verify

If True (default), verify the HMC certificate as specified in the ca_certs parameter. If False, ignore what is specified in the ca_certs parameter and do not verify the HMC certificate.

required: False
type: bool
default: True
cpc_name

The name of the CPC associated with the storage group containing the target storage volume.

required: True
type: str
storage_group_name

The name of the storage group containing the target storage volume.

required: True
type: str
name

The name of the target storage volume.

required: True
type: str
state

The desired state for the storage volume. All states are fully idempotent within the limits of the properties that can be changed:

* absent: Ensures that the storage volume does not exist in the specified storage group.

* present: Ensures that the storage volume exists in the specified storage group, and has the specified properties.

* facts: Returns the storage volume properties.

required: True
type: str
choices: absent, present, facts
properties

Dictionary with desired properties for the storage volume. Used for state=present; ignored for state=absent|facts. Dictionary key is the property name with underscores instead of hyphens, and dictionary value is the property value in YAML syntax. Integer properties may also be provided as decimal strings.

The possible input properties in this dictionary are the properties defined as writeable in the data model for Storage Volume resources (where the property names contain underscores instead of hyphens), with the following exceptions:

* name: Cannot be specified because the name has already been specified in the name module parameter.

Properties omitted in this dictionary will remain unchanged when the storage volume already exists, and will get the default value defined in the data model for storage volumes in the :term:`HMC API` when the storage volume is being created.

required: False
type: dict
log_file

File path of a log file to which the logic flow of this module as well as interactions with the HMC are logged. If null, logging will be propagated to the Python root logger.

required: False
type: str

Examples

---
# Note: The following examples assume that some variables named 'my_*' are set.

- name: Gather facts about a storage volume
  zhmc_storage_volume:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
    cpc_name: "{{ my_cpc_name }}"
    storage_group_name: "{{ my_storage_group_name }}"
    name: "{{ my_storage_volume_name }}"
    state: facts
  register: sv1

- name: Ensure the storage volume does not exist
  zhmc_storage_volume:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
    cpc_name: "{{ my_cpc_name }}"
    storage_group_name: "{{ my_storage_group_name }}"
    name: "{{ my_storage_volume_name }}"
    state: absent

- name: Ensure the storage volume exists
  zhmc_storage_volume:
    hmc_host: "{{ my_hmc_host }}"
    hmc_auth: "{{ my_hmc_auth }}"
    cpc_name: "{{ my_cpc_name }}"
    storage_group_name: "{{ my_storage_group_name }}"
    name: "{{ my_storage_volume_name }}"
    state: present
    properties:
      description: "Example storage volume 1"
      size: 1
  register: sv1

Notes

Note

This module manages only the knowledge of the Z system about its storage, but does not perform any actions against the storage subsystems or SAN switches attached to the Z system.

Return Values

changed

Indicates if any change has been made by the module. For state=facts, always will be false.

returned: always
type: bool
msg

An error message that describes the failure.

returned: failure
type: str
storage_volume

For state=absent, an empty dictionary.

For state=present|facts, the resource properties of the storage volume after any changes.

returned: success
type: dict
sample:
{
    "active-size": 128.0,
    "class": "storage-volume",
    "description": "Boot volume",
    "element-id": "f02e2632-200a-11e9-8748-00106f239c31",
    "element-uri": "/api/storage-groups/edd782f2-200a-11e9-a142-00106f239c31/storage-volumes/f02e2632-200a-11e9-8748-00106f239c31",
    "fulfillment-state": "complete",
    "name": "MGMT1_MGMT1-boot",
    "parent": "/api/storage-groups/edd782f2-200a-11e9-a142-00106f239c31",
    "paths": [
        {
            "device-number": "0015",
            "logical-unit-number": "0000000000000000",
            "partition-uri": "/api/partitions/009c0f4c-3588-11e9-bad3-00106f239d19",
            "target-world-wide-port-name": "5005076810260382"
        }
    ],
    "size": 128.0,
    "type": "fcp",
    "usage": "boot",
    "uuid": "600507681081001D4800000000000083"
}
name

Storage volume name

type: str
type

Type of the storage volume (‘fc’ or ‘fcp’), as defined in its storage group.

type: str
{property}

Additional properties of the storage volume, as described in the data model of the ‘Storage Volume’ element object of the ‘Storage Group’ object in the :term:`HMC API` book. The property names have hyphens (-) as described in that book.

type: raw