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dladm_vnic - Manage VNICs on Solaris/illumos systems.

New in version 2.2.

Synopsis

  • Create or delete VNICs on Solaris/illumos systems.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
link
 yes
VNIC underlying link name.
mac
 no
Sets the VNIC's MAC address. Must be valid unicast MAC address.
aliases: macaddr
name
 yes
VNIC name.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
Create or delete Solaris/illumos VNIC.
temporary
 no
  • true
  • false
Specifies that the VNIC is temporary. Temporary VNICs do not persist across reboots.
vlan
 no
Enable VLAN tagging for this VNIC. The VLAN tag will have id vlan.
aliases: vlan_id

Examples

# Create 'vnic0' VNIC over 'bnx0' link
- dladm_vnic:
    name: vnic0
    link: bnx0
    state: present

# Create VNIC with specified MAC and VLAN tag over 'aggr0'
- dladm_vnic:
    name: vnic1
    link: aggr0
    mac: '00:00:5E:00:53:23'
    vlan: 4

# Remove 'vnic0' VNIC
- dladm_vnic:
    name: vnic0
    link: bnx0
    state: absent

Return Values

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

name description returned type sample
state
state of the target
 always string present
temporary
VNIC's persistence
 always boolean True
name
VNIC name
 always string vnic0
link
VNIC underlying link name
 always string igb0
vlan
VLAN to use for VNIC
 success int 42
mac
MAC address to use for VNIC
 if mac is specified string 00:00:5E:00:53:42

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dladm_vnic_module.html