# ovirt_cluster – Module to manage clusters in oVirt/RHV

- Synopsis

- Requirements

- Parameters

- Notes

- Examples

- Return Values

- Status

## Synopsis

- Module to manage clusters in oVirt/RHV

## Requirements

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

- python >= 2.7

- ovirt-engine-sdk-python >= 4.3.0

## Parameters

Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments
--- | --- | ---
auth dictionary / required |  | Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt:
| ca_file string |  | A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates. The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates. If `ca_file` parameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used. Default value is set by `OVIRT_CAFILE` environment variable.
| headers dictionary |  | Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call.
| hostname string |  | A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`. Default value is set by `OVIRT_HOSTNAME` environment variable. Either `url` or `hostname` is required.

insecure
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked.

kerberos
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication.

| password string / required |  | The password of the user. Default value is set by `OVIRT_PASSWORD` environment variable.
| token string |  | Token to be used instead of login with username/password. Default value is set by `OVIRT_TOKEN` environment variable.
| url string |  | A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`. Default value is set by `OVIRT_URL` environment variable. Either `url` or `hostname` is required.
| username string / required |  | The name of the user, something like admin@internal. Default value is set by `OVIRT_USERNAME` environment variable.

ballooning
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enable memory balloon optimization. Memory balloon is used to re-distribute / reclaim the host memory based on VM needs in a dynamic way.

comment - |  | Comment of the cluster.
compatibility_version - |  | The compatibility version of the cluster. All hosts in this cluster must support at least this compatibility version.

cpu_arch
-

Choices:
- x86_64
- ppc64
- undefined

CPU architecture of cluster.

cpu_type - |  | CPU codename. For example Intel SandyBridge Family.
data_center - |  | Datacenter name where cluster reside.
description - |  | Description of the cluster.
external_network_providers - added in 2.5 |  | List of references to the external network providers available in the cluster. If the automatic deployment of the external network provider is supported, the networks of the referenced network provider are available on every host in the cluster. This is supported since oVirt version 4.2.
| id - |  | ID of the external network provider. Either `name` or `id` is required.
| name - |  | Name of the external network provider. Either `name` or `id` is required.
fence_connectivity_threshold - |  | The threshold used by `fence_skip_if_connectivity_broken`.

fence_enabled
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enables fencing on the cluster.
Fencing is enabled by default.

fence_skip_if_connectivity_broken
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True fencing will be temporarily disabled if the percentage of hosts in the cluster that are experiencing connectivity issues is greater than or equal to the defined threshold.
The threshold can be specified by `fence_connectivity_threshold`.

fence_skip_if_gluster_bricks_up
boolean
added in 2.8

Choices:
- no
- yes

A flag indicating if fencing should be skipped if Gluster bricks are up and running in the host being fenced.
This flag is optional, and the default value is `false`.

fence_skip_if_gluster_quorum_not_met
boolean
added in 2.8

Choices:
- no
- yes

A flag indicating if fencing should be skipped if Gluster bricks are up and running and Gluster quorum will not be met without those bricks.
This flag is optional, and the default value is `false`.

fence_skip_if_sd_active
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True any hosts in the cluster that are Non Responsive and still connected to storage will not be fenced.

fetch_nested
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True the module will fetch additional data from the API.
It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying `nested_attributes`.

firewall_type
string
added in 2.8

Choices:
- firewalld
- iptables

The type of firewall to be used on hosts in this cluster.
Up to version 4.1, it was always iptables. Since version 4.2, you can choose between iptables and firewalld. For clusters with a compatibility version of 4.2 and higher, the default firewall type is firewalld.

gluster
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True, hosts in this cluster will be used as Gluster Storage server nodes, and not for running virtual machines.
By default the cluster is created for virtual machine hosts.

gluster_tuned_profile string added in 2.8 |  | The name of the https://fedorahosted.org/tuned to set on all the hosts in the cluster. This is not mandatory and relevant only for clusters with Gluster service. Could be for example virtual-host, rhgs-sequential-io, rhgs-random-io

ha_reservation
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enables the oVirt/RHV to monitor cluster capacity for highly available virtual machines.

host_reason
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enables an optional reason field when a host is placed into maintenance mode from the Manager, allowing the administrator to provide an explanation for the maintenance.

id - added in 2.8 |  | ID of the cluster to manage.

ksm
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

I True MoM enables to run Kernel Same-page Merging KSM when necessary and when it can yield a memory saving benefit that outweighs its CPU cost.

ksm_numa
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enables KSM `ksm` for best performance inside NUMA nodes.

mac_pool - added in 2.4 |  | MAC pool to be used by this cluster. `Note:` This is supported since oVirt version 4.1.

memory_policy
-

Choices:
- disabled
- server
- desktop

disabled - Disables memory page sharing.
server - Sets the memory page sharing threshold to 150% of the system memory on each host.
desktop - Sets the memory page sharing threshold to 200% of the system memory on each host.

migration_auto_converge
-

Choices:
- true
- false
- inherit

If True auto-convergence is used during live migration of virtual machines.
Used only when `migration_policy` is set to legacy.
Following options are supported:
`true` - Override the global setting to true.
`false` - Override the global setting to false.
`inherit` - Use value which is set globally.

migration_bandwidth
-

Choices:
- auto
- hypervisor_default
- custom

The bandwidth settings define the maximum bandwidth of both outgoing and incoming migrations per host.
Following bandwidth options are supported:
`auto` - Bandwidth is copied from the rate limit [Mbps] setting in the data center host network QoS.
`hypervisor_default` - Bandwidth is controlled by local VDSM setting on sending host.
`custom` - Defined by user (in Mbps).

migration_bandwidth_limit - |  | Set the custom migration bandwidth limit. This parameter is used only when `migration_bandwidth` is custom.

migration_compressed
-

Choices:
- true
- false
- inherit

If True compression is used during live migration of the virtual machine.
Used only when `migration_policy` is set to legacy.
Following options are supported:
`true` - Override the global setting to true.
`false` - Override the global setting to false.
`inherit` - Use value which is set globally.

migration_policy
-

Choices:
- legacy
- minimal_downtime
- suspend_workload
- post_copy

A migration policy defines the conditions for live migrating virtual machines in the event of host failure.
Following policies are supported:
`legacy` - Legacy behavior of 3.6 version.
`minimal_downtime` - Virtual machines should not experience any significant downtime.
`suspend_workload` - Virtual machines may experience a more significant downtime.
`post_copy` - Virtual machines should not experience any significant downtime. If the VM migration is not converging for a long time, the migration will be switched to post-copy. Added in version 2.4.

name - / required |  | Name of the cluster to manage.
nested_attributes list |  | Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API. This parameter apply only when `fetch_nested` is true.
network - |  | Management network of cluster to access cluster hosts.
poll_interval integer | Default: 3 | Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent.

resilience_policy
-

Choices:
- do_not_migrate
- migrate
- migrate_highly_available

The resilience policy defines how the virtual machines are prioritized in the migration.
Following values are supported:
`do_not_migrate` - Prevents virtual machines from being migrated.
`migrate` - Migrates all virtual machines in order of their defined priority.
`migrate_highly_available` - Migrates only highly available virtual machines to prevent overloading other hosts.

rng_sources - |  | List that specify the random number generator devices that all hosts in the cluster will use. Supported generators are: hwrng and random.
scheduling_policy - |  | Name of the scheduling policy to be used for cluster.
scheduling_policy_properties - added in 2.6 |  | Custom scheduling policy properties of the cluster. These optional properties override the properties of the scheduling policy specified by the `scheduling_policy` parameter.
serial_policy - |  | Specify a serial number policy for the virtual machines in the cluster. Following options are supported: `vm` - Sets the virtual machine's UUID as its serial number. `host` - Sets the host's UUID as the virtual machine's serial number. `custom` - Allows you to specify a custom serial number in `serial_policy_value`.
serial_policy_value - |  | Allows you to specify a custom serial number. This parameter is used only when `serial_policy` is custom.
spice_proxy - |  | The proxy by which the SPICE client will connect to virtual machines. The address must be in the following format: protocol://[host]:[port]

state
-

Choices:
- present ←
- absent

Should the cluster be present or absent.

switch_type
-

Choices:
- legacy
- ovs

Type of switch to be used by all networks in given cluster. Either legacy which is using linux bridge or ovs using Open vSwitch.

threads_as_cores
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True the exposed host threads would be treated as cores which can be utilized by virtual machines.

timeout integer | Default: 180 | The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the instance to get into desired state.

trusted_service
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enables integration with an OpenAttestation server.

virt
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True, hosts in this cluster will be used to run virtual machines.

vm_reason
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes

If True enables an optional reason field when a virtual machine is shut down from the Manager, allowing the administrator to provide an explanation for the maintenance.

wait
boolean

Choices:
- no
- yes ←

`yes` if the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.

## Notes

Note

- In order to use this module you have to install oVirt Python SDK. To ensure it’s installed with correct version you can create the following task: pip: name=ovirt-engine-sdk-python version=4.3.0

## Examples

    # Examples don't contain auth parameter for simplicity,
    # look at ovirt_auth module to see how to reuse authentication:

    # Create cluster
    - ovirt_cluster:
        data_center: mydatacenter
        name: mycluster
        cpu_type: Intel SandyBridge Family
        description: mycluster
        compatibility_version: 4.0

    # Create virt service cluster:
    - ovirt_cluster:
        data_center: mydatacenter
        name: mycluster
        cpu_type: Intel Nehalem Family
        description: mycluster
        switch_type: legacy
        compatibility_version: 4.0
        ballooning: true
        gluster: false
        threads_as_cores: true
        ha_reservation: true
        trusted_service: false
        host_reason: false
        vm_reason: true
        ksm_numa: true
        memory_policy: server
        rng_sources:
          - hwrng
          - random

    # Create cluster with default network provider
    - ovirt_cluster:
        name: mycluster
        data_center: Default
        cpu_type: Intel SandyBridge Family
        external_network_providers:
          - name: ovirt-provider-ovn

    # Remove cluster
    - ovirt_cluster:
        state: absent
        name: mycluster

    # Change cluster Name
    - ovirt_cluster:
        id: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
        name: "new_cluster_name"

## Return Values

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

Key | Returned | Description
--- | --- | ---
cluster dictionary | On success if cluster is found. | Dictionary of all the cluster attributes. Cluster attributes can be found on your oVirt/RHV instance at following url: http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-engine-api-model/master/#types/cluster.
id string | On success if cluster is found. | ID of the cluster which is managed Sample: 7de90f31-222c-436c-a1ca-7e655bd5b60c

## Status

- This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

- This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

### Authors

- Ondra Machacek (@machacekondra)

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