vm_clone – Handles cloning of the VM

Use scale_computing.hypercore.vm_clone to clone a specified virtual machine.

New in version 0.0.1.

Examples

- name: Clone VM
  scale_computing.hypercore.vm_clone:
    vm_name: demo-vm-clone
    source_vm_name: demo-vm
    cloud_init:
      user_data: "{{ lookup('file', 'cloud-init-user-data-example.yml') }}"
      meta_data: |
        #cloud-config
        valid:
          yaml: 3
          expression: 4
    tags:
      - test
      - tag
  register: output

Notes

Note

check_mode is not supported.

Parameters

cloud_init (optional)

Configuration to be used by cloud-init (Linux) or cloudbase-init (Windows).

When non-empty will create an extra ISO device attached to VirDomain as a NoCloud datasource.

There has to be cloud-config comment present at the beginning of cloud_init file or raw yaml.

type: dict

meta_data (optional)

Configuration meta-data to be used by cloud-init (Linux) or cloudbase-init (Windows).

Valid YAML syntax.

type: str

user_data (optional)

Configuration user-data to be used by cloud-init (Linux) or cloudbase-init (Windows).

Valid YAML syntax.

type: str

cluster_instance (optional)

Scale Computing HyperCore instance information.

type: dict

host (required)

The HyperCore instance URL.

If not set, the value of the SC_URL environment variable will be used.

For example “https://10.1.2.3:443”.

type: str

password (required)

Password used for authentication.

If not set, the value of the SC_PASSWORD environment variable will be used.

type: str

timeout (optional)

Timeout in seconds for the connection with the Scale Computing HyperCore API instance.

If not set, the value of the SC_TIMEOUT environment variable will be used.

type: float

username (required)

Username used for authentication.

If not set, the value of the SC_USERNAME environment variable will be used.

type: str

source_vm_name (required)

Name of the source virtual machine, to be cloned.

Used to identify selected virtual machine by name.

type: str

tags (optional)

Virtual machine tags.

Used to group virtual machine.

type: list

vm_name (required)

Name of the VM clone.

Used to identify a clone of the virtual machine by name.

type: str

Return Values

msg

Return message.

sample:

Virtual machine - VM-TEST - cloning complete to - VM-TEST-clone