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Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies PowerStore

The Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies (Dell) PowerStore allow Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration and management of Dell PowerStore arrays.

The capabilities of the Ansible modules are managing volumes, volume groups, vCenters, hosts, host groups, snapshots, snapshot rules, replication rules, replication sessions, protection policies, file systems, NAS servers, SMB shares, user and tree quotas, file system snapshots, NFS exports, Clusters, Networks, Local users, Jobs, Roles, Certificates, Remote systems, security configuration, DNS server, Email notification destination, NTP server, Remote support configuration, Remote support contacts, SMTP configuration, LDAP accounts, LDAP domain configuration, storage containers, File DNS, File interface, File NIS, NFS server, SMB Server and service config. It also allows gathering high level info from the array. The options available for each are list, show, create, modify and delete. These tasks can be executed by running simple playbooks written in yaml syntax. The modules are written so that all the operations are idempotent, so making multiple identical requests has the same effect as making a single request.

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License

The Ansible collection for PowerStore is released and licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms. Ansible modules and modules utilities that are part of the Ansible collection for PowerStore are released and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See MODULE-LICENSE for the full terms.

Prerequisites

Ansible Modules PowerStore Version SDK version Python version Ansible
v3.3.0 2.9.x
3.2.x
3.5.x
3.6.x
4.0.x
3.2.0 3.6.x
3.9.x
3.10.x
3.11.x
2.14
2.15
2.16

Idempotency

The modules are written in such a way that all requests are idempotent and hence fault-tolerant. It essentially means that the result of a successfully performed request is independent of the number of times it is executed.

List of Ansible Modules for Dell PowerStore

Installation and execution of Ansible modules for Dell PowerStore

The installation and execution steps of Ansible modules for Dell PowerStore can be found here

Maintenance

Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies PowerStore deprecation cycle is aligned with Ansible.