community.solidfire

Community SolidFire Collection

Copyright (c) 2026 scaleoutSean, NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved.

Installation

To use this collection in your playbook add the following at the top of your playbook:

collections:
  - community.solidfire

Local installation (development)

If you do not plan to publish the fork and just want to use it locally, build and install the collection into your local Ansible collections path:

cd /home/sean/code/netapp.solidfire
ansible-galaxy collection build  # creates community-solidfire-<version>.tar.gz
ansible-galaxy collection install ./community-solidfire-*.tar.gz --force

Alternatively, for development you can symlink the checkout into your local collections path so edits are picked up immediately:

mkdir -p ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/
ln -s /home/sean/code/netapp.solidfire ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/solidfire

Or run Ansible with an explicit collections path for a single run:

ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS=/home/sean/code/netapp.solidfire ansible-playbook site.yml

Module documentation

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/collections/netapp/elementsw/ [pre-fork]

Release Notes

26.1.0

New

• na_elementsw_info - add cluster_initiators (pull request #11)
• na_elementsw_volume - add purge option (issue #2)
• na_elementsw_group_snapshot - add GroupSnapshot (issue #5)
• na_elementsw_backup_s3 - add S3 backup module (StartBulkVolumeRead to S3-compatible endpoints) (issue #1)
• Passing CI/Coverage uses Ansible Core 2.20.1, Python 3.12 and SolidFire Python SDK 12.3

Minor changes

• Updates in variouis places (probably not 100% complete) to use community.solidfire collection name

21.7.0

Minor changes

• all modules - enable usage of Ansible module group defaults - for Ansible 2.12+.

21.6.1

Bug Fixes

• requirements.txt: point to the correct python dependency

21.3.0

New Options

• na_elementsw_qos_policy: explicitly define minIOPS, maxIOPS, burstIOPS as int.

Minor changes

• na_elementsw_info - add cluster_nodes and cluster_drives.

Bug Fixes

• na_elementsw_drive - latest SDK does not accept force_during_bin_sync and force_during_upgrade.
• na_elementsw_qos_policy - loop would convert minIOPS, maxIOPS, burstIOPS to str, causing type mismatch issues in comparisons.
• na_elementsw_snapshot_schedule - change of interface in SDK ('ScheduleInfo' object has no attribute 'minutes')

20.11.0

Minor changes

• na_elementsw_snapshot_schedule - Add retention in examples.

Bug Fixes

• na_elementsw_drive - Object of type 'dict_values' is not JSON serializable.

20.10.0

New Modules

• na_elementsw_info: support for two subsets cluster_accounts, node_config.

New Options

• na_elementsw_cluster: encryption to enable encryption at rest. order_number and serial_number for demo purposes.
• na_elementsw_network_interfaces: restructure options, into 2 dictionaries bond_1g and bond_10g, so that there is no shared option. Disallow all older options.
• na_elementsw_network_interfaces: make all options not required, so that only bond_1g can be set for example.

20.9.1

Bug Fixes

• na_elementsw_node: improve error reporting when cluster name cannot be set because node is already active.
• na_elementsw_schedule - missing imports TimeIntervalFrequency, Schedule, ScheduleInfo have been added back

20.9.0

New Modules

• na_elementsw_qos_policy: create, modify, rename, or delete QOS policy.

New Options

• na_elementsw_node: cluster_name to set the cluster name on new nodes.
• na_elementsw_node: preset_only to only set the cluster name before creating a cluster with na_elementsw_cluster.
• na_elementsw_volume: qos_policy_name to provide a QOS policy name or ID.

Bug Fixes

• na_elementsw_node: fix check_mode so that no action is taken.

20.8.0

New Options

• na_elementsw_drive: add all drives in a cluster, allow for a list of nodes or a list of drives.

Bug Fixes

• na_elementsw_access_group: fix check_mode so that no action is taken.
• na_elementsw_admin_users: fix check_mode so that no action is taken.
• na_elementsw_cluster: create cluster if it does not exist. Do not expect MVIP or SVIP to exist before create.
• na_elementsw_cluster_snmp: double exception because of AttributeError.
• na_elementsw_drive: node_id or drive_id were not handled properly when using numeric ids.
• na_elementsw_initiators: volume_access_group_id was ignored. volume_access_groups was ignored and redundant.
• na_elementsw_ldap: double exception because of AttributeError.
• na_elementsw_snapshot_schedule: ignore schedules being deleted (idempotency), remove default values and fix documentation.
• na_elementsw_vlan: AttributeError if VLAN already exists.
• na_elementsw_vlan: fix check_mode so that no action is taken.
• na_elementsw_vlan: change in attributes was ignored.
• na_elementsw_volume: double exception because of AttributeError.
• na_elementsw_volume: Argument '512emulation' in argument_spec is not a valid python identifier - renamed to enable512emulation.

Module documentation changes

• use a three group format for version_added. So 2.7 becomes 2.7.0. Same thing for 2.8 and 2.9.
• add type: str (or int, dict) where missing in documentation section.
• add required: true where missing.
• remove required: true for state and use present as default.

20.6.0

Bug Fixes

• galaxy.xml: fix repository and homepage links

20.2.0

Bug Fixes

• galaxy.yml: fix path to github repository.
• netapp.py: report error in case of connection error rather than raising a generic exception by default.

20.1.0

New Module

• na_elementsw_access_group_volumes: add/remove volumes to/from existing access group

19.11.0

19.10.0

Changes in 19.10.0 and September collection releases compared to Ansible 2.9

Documentation Fixes:

• na_elementsw_drive: na_elementsw_drive was documented as na_element_drive