Module for CreateGroupSnapshot

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Summary

Create Group Snapshot takes a list of volumes, whereas CreateSnapshot takes a VolumeID (in na_elementsw_snapshot that's src_volume_id (string, required)).

{
    "method": "CreateSnapshot",
    "params": {
        "volumeID": <Volume ID>,
        "snapshotID": <Optional Source Snapshot ID>,
        "name": <Optional Snapshot Name>,
        "enableRemoteReplication": <Optional Boolean true or false>,
        "retention": "<Optional amount of time to retain the snapshot in HH:mm:ss>"
        "attributes": {}
    },
    "id": 1
}

Because of that it's not possible to provide a list of volume IDs to src_volume_id's and take a group snapshot.

{
    "method": "CreateGroupSnapshot",
    "params": {
        "volumes": [<CSV List of Volume IDs>],
        "name": "<Optional Group Snapshot Name>",
        "enableRemoteReplication": <Optional Boolean true or false>,
        "retention": "<Optional amount of time to retain the snapshot in HH:mm:ss>",
        "attributes": {}
    },
    "id": 1
}

Component Name

na_elementsw_snapshot

Additional Information

If src_volume_id could optionally be a list and use CreateGroupSnapshot, then dedicated na_elementsw_group_snapshot module wouldn't be required.

If we want to take a group snapshot with Ansible we can't unless we create a snapshot schedule for a list of volumes (I haven't tested that yet, but that looks like a workaround for situations when group snapshots can be scheduled).