The Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies (Dell) Unity allow Data Center and IT administrators to use RedHat Ansible to automate and orchestrate the configuration and management of Dell Unity arrays.
The capabilities of the Ansible modules are managing consistency groups, filesystem, filesystem snapshots, CIFS server, NAS server, NFS server, NFS export, SMB share, interface, hosts, snapshots, snapshot schedules, storage pools, user quotas, quota trees, replication sessions and volumes. Capabilities also include gathering facts 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.
- Code of conduct
- Maintainer guide
- Committer guide
- Contributing guide
- Branching strategy
- List of adopters
- Maintainers
- Support
- License
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- Prerequisites
- List of Ansible modules for Dell Unity
- Installation and execution of Ansible modules for Dell Unity
- Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation
The Ansible collection for Unity is released and licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms. Ansible modules and module utilities that are part of the Ansible collection for Unity are released and licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See MODULE-LICENSE for the full terms.
- Dell Unity Arrays version 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
This table provides information about the software prerequisites for the Ansible Modules for Dell Unity.
| Ansible Modules | Python version | Storops - Python SDK version | Ansible |
|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.0 | 3.11.x 3.12.x 3.13 |
1.2.12 | 2.17 2.18 2.19 |
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.
- Consistency group module
- Filesystem module
- Filesystem snapshot module
- Info module
- Host module
- CIFS server module
- NAS server module
- NFS server module
- NFS export module
- SMB share module
- Interface module
- Snapshot module
- Snapshot schedule module
- Storage pool module
- User quota module
- Quota tree module
- Volume module
- Replication session module
The installation and execution steps of Ansible modules for Dell Unity can be found here.
Ansible Modules for Dell Technnologies Unity follows Semantic Versioning.
New version will be release regularly if significant changes (bug fix or new feature) are made in the collection.
Released code versions are located on "release" branches with names of the form "release-x.y.z" where x.y.z corresponds to the version number. More information on branching strategy followed can be found here. Ansible Modules for Dell Technologies Unity deprecation cycle is aligned with that of Ansible.
The support is available through GitHub Issues or at Dell Community forum.
As Red Hat Ansible Certified Content, this collection is entitled to support through the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) using the Create issue button on the top right corner. If a support case cannot be opened with Red Hat, and the collection was obtained from Ansible Galaxy or GitHub, you can seek community support through the Ansible Forum.