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purefa_pgsnap – Manage protection group snapshots on Pure Storage FlashArrays

New in version 2.6.

Synopsis

  • Create or delete protection group snapshots on Pure Storage FlashArray.
  • Recovery of replicated snapshots on the replica target array is enabled.

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.7
  • purestorage

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_token
string / required
FlashArray API token for admin privileged user.
apply_retention
boolean
added in 2.9
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Apply retention schedule settings to the snapshot
eradicate
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Define whether to eradicate the snapshot on delete or leave in trash.
fa_url
string / required
FlashArray management IPv4 address or Hostname.
name
string / required
The name of the source protection group.
now
boolean
added in 2.9
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Whether to initiate a snapshot of the protection group immediately
overwrite
boolean
added in 2.8
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Define whether to overwrite the target volume if it already exists.
remote
boolean
added in 2.9
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Force immeadiate snapshot to remote targets
restore
string
added in 2.7
Restore a specific volume from a protection group snapshot.
state
string
    Choices:
  • absent
  • present ←
  • copy
Define whether the protection group snapshot should exist or not. Copy (added in 2.7) will create a full read/write clone of the snapshot.
suffix
-
Suffix of snapshot name.
target
string
added in 2.8
Volume to restore a specified volume to.
If not supplied this will default to the volume defined in restore

Notes

Note

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

Examples

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

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

- name: Restore volume data from local protection group snapshot named foo.snap to volume data2
  purefa_pgsnap:
    name: foo
    suffix: snap
    restore: data
    target: data2
    overwrite: true
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: copy

- name: Restore remote protection group snapshot arrayA:pgname.snap.data to local copy
  purefa_pgsnap:
    name: arrayA:pgname
    suffix: snap
    restore: data
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: copy

- name: Create snapshot of existing pgroup foo with suffix and force immeadiate copy to remote targets
  purefa_pgsnap:
    name: pgname
    suffix: force
    now: True
    apply_retention: True
    remote: True
    fa_url: 10.10.10.2
    api_token: e31060a7-21fc-e277-6240-25983c6c4592
    state: copy

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