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aix_lvg – Manage LVM volume groups on AIX

New in version 2.8.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples
Status

Synopsis

This module creates, removes or resize volume groups on AIX LVM.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
force boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Force volume group creation.
pp_size integer		The size of the physical partition in megabytes.
pvs list		List of comma-separated devices to use as physical devices in this volume group. Required when creating or extending (`present` state) the volume group. If not informed reducing (`absent` state) the volume group will be removed.
state string	Choices: absent present ← varyoff varyon	Control if the volume group exists and volume group AIX state varyonvg `varyon` or varyoffvg `varyoff`.
vg string / required		The name of the volume group.
vg_type string	Choices: big normal ← scalable	The type of the volume group.

Notes

Note

AIX will permit remove VG only if all LV/Filesystems are not busy.
Module does not modify PP size for already present volume group.

Examples

- name: Create a volume group datavg
  aix_lvg:
    vg: datavg
    pp_size: 128
    vg_type: scalable
    state: present

- name: Removing a volume group datavg
  aix_lvg:
    vg: datavg
    state: absent

- name: Extending rootvg
  aix_lvg:
    vg: rootvg
    pvs: hdisk1
    state: present

- name: Reducing rootvg
  aix_lvg:
    vg: rootvg
    pvs: hdisk1
    state: absent

Status

This module is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]
This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

Kairo Araujo (@kairoaraujo)

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