vmware_portgroup – Create a VMware portgroup

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vmware_portgroup – Create a VMware portgroup

New in version 2.0.


Synopsis

  • Create a VMware portgroup on given host/s or hosts of given cluster

Requirements

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

  • python >= 2.6
  • PyVmomi

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments

cluster_name

-

added in 2.5

Name of cluster name for host membership.

Portgroup will be created on all hosts of the given cluster.

This option is required if hosts is not specified.

hostname

string

The hostname or IP address of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_HOST will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

hosts

-

added in 2.5

List of name of host or hosts on which portgroup needs to be added.

This option is required if cluster_name is not specified.


aliases: esxi_hostname

network_policy

-

added in 2.2

Default:

{"forged_transmits": false, "mac_changes": false, "promiscuous_mode": false}

Network policy specifies layer 2 security settings for a portgroup such as promiscuous mode, where guest adapter listens to all the packets, MAC address changes and forged transmits.

Dict which configures the different security values for portgroup.

Valid attributes are:

- promiscuous_mode (bool): indicates whether promiscuous mode is allowed. (default: false)

- forged_transmits (bool): indicates whether forged transmits are allowed. (default: false)

- mac_changes (bool): indicates whether mac changes are allowed. (default: false)

password

string

The password of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PASSWORD will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.


aliases: pass, pwd

port

integer

added in 2.5

Default:

443

The port number of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_PORT will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

portgroup_name

- / required

Portgroup name to add.

state

-

added in 2.5

  • present

  • absent

Determines if the portgroup should be present or not.

switch_name

- / required

vSwitch to modify.

teaming_policy

-

added in 2.6

Default:

{"inbound_policy": false, "load_balance_policy": "loadbalance_srcid", "notify_switches": true, "rolling_order": false}

Dictionary which configures the different teaming values for portgroup.

Valid attributes are:

- load_balance_policy (string): Network adapter teaming policy. (default: loadbalance_srcid)

- choices: [ loadbalance_ip, loadbalance_srcmac, loadbalance_srcid, failover_explicit ]

- inbound_policy (bool): Indicate whether or not the teaming policy is applied to inbound frames as well. (default: False)

- notify_switches (bool): Indicate whether or not to notify the physical switch if a link fails. (default: True)

- rolling_order (bool): Indicate whether or not to use a rolling policy when restoring links. (default: False)

username

string

The username of the vSphere vCenter or ESXi server.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_USER will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.


aliases: admin, user

validate_certs

boolean

  • no
  • yes

Allows connection when SSL certificates are not valid. Set to false when certificates are not trusted.

If the value is not specified in the task, the value of environment variable VMWARE_VALIDATE_CERTS will be used instead.

Environment variable support added in Ansible 2.6.

If set to yes, please make sure Python >= 2.7.9 is installed on the given machine.

vlan_id

- / required

VLAN ID to assign to portgroup.



Notes

Note

  • Tested on vSphere 5.5, 6.5


Examples

- name: Add Management Network VM Portgroup
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ esxi_username }}"
    password: "{{ esxi_password }}"
    switch_name: "{{ vswitch_name }}"
    portgroup_name: "{{ portgroup_name }}"
    vlan_id: "{{ vlan_id }}"
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Add Portgroup with Promiscuous Mode Enabled
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ esxi_username }}"
    password: "{{ esxi_password }}"
    switch_name: "{{ vswitch_name }}"
    portgroup_name: "{{ portgroup_name }}"
    network_policy:
        promiscuous_mode: True
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Add Management Network VM Portgroup to specific hosts
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    hosts: [esxi_hostname_one]
    switch_name: "{{ vswitch_name }}"
    portgroup_name: "{{ portgroup_name }}"
    vlan_id: "{{ vlan_id }}"
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Add Management Network VM Portgroup to all hosts in a cluster
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    cluster_name: "{{ cluster_name }}"
    switch_name: "{{ vswitch_name }}"
    portgroup_name: "{{ portgroup_name }}"
    vlan_id: "{{ vlan_id }}"
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Remove Management Network VM Portgroup to all hosts in a cluster
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: "{{ vcenter_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ vcenter_username }}"
    password: "{{ vcenter_password }}"
    cluster_name: "{{ cluster_name }}"
    switch_name: "{{ vswitch_name }}"
    portgroup_name: "{{ portgroup_name }}"
    vlan_id: "{{ vlan_id }}"
    state: absent
  delegate_to: localhost

- name: Add Portgroup with teaming policy
  vmware_portgroup:
    hostname: "{{ esxi_hostname }}"
    username: "{{ esxi_username }}"
    password: "{{ esxi_password }}"
    switch_name: "{{ vswitch_name }}"
    portgroup_name: "{{ portgroup_name }}"
    teaming_policy:
      load_balance_policy: 'failover_explicit'
      inbound_policy: True
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: teaming_result

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description

result

dictionary

always

metadata about the portgroup


Sample:

{'esxi01.example.com': {'portgroup_name': 'pg0010', 'switch_name': 'vswitch_0001', 'vlan_id': 1}}




Status

Authors

  • Joseph Callen (@jcpowermac)
  • Russell Teague (@mtnbikenc)
  • Abhijeet Kasurde (@Akasurde) <[email protected]>

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