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community.general.proxmox_storage_info – Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE storages

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.proxmox_storage_info.

New in version 2.2.0: of community.general

Synopsis

  • Retrieve information about one or more Proxmox VE storages.

Requirements

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

  • proxmoxer
  • requests

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
api_host
string / required
Specify the target host of the Proxmox VE cluster.
api_password
string
Specify the password to authenticate with.
You can use PROXMOX_PASSWORD environment variable.
api_token_id
string
added in 1.3.0 of community.general
Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret
string
added in 1.3.0 of community.general
Specify the token secret.
api_user
string / required
Specify the user to authenticate with.
storage
string
Only return informations on a specific storage.

aliases: name
type
string
Filter on a specifc storage type.
validate_certs
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
If no, SSL certificates will not be validated.
This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes

Note

Examples

- name: List existing storages
  community.general.proxmox_storage_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
  register: proxmox_storages

- name: List NFS storages only
  community.general.proxmox_storage_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    type: nfs
  register: proxmox_storages_nfs

- name: Retrieve information about the lvm2 storage
  community.general.proxmox_storage_info:
    api_host: helldorado
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: "{{ password | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_id: "{{ token_id | default(omit) }}"
    api_token_secret: "{{ token_secret | default(omit) }}"
    storage: lvm2
  register: proxmox_storage_lvm

Return Values

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

Key Returned Description
proxmox_storages
list / elements=dictionary
on success
List of storage pools.
content
list / elements=string
on success
Proxmox content types available in this storage
digest
string
on success
Storage's digest
nodes
list / elements=string
on success, if storage is not local
List of nodes associated to this storage
path
string
on success
Physical path to this storage
prune-backups
list / elements=dictionary
on success
Backup retention options
shared
boolean
on success
Is this storage shared
storage
string
on success
Storage name
type
string
on success
Storage type


Authors

  • Tristan Le Guern (@tleguern)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/proxmox_storage_info_module.html