Dell Technologies – PowerStore

V1.3.0: ReadMe

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Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerStore

The Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies (Dell) PowerStore allows Data Center and IT administrators to use Hashicorp Terraform to automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management of Dell PowerStore storage systems.

The Terraform Provider can be used to manage volumes, snapshot rules, protection policies and storage containers.

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerStore

Support

For any Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore issues, questions or feedback, please follow our support process. You can interact with us on GitHub by creating various types of GitHub Issues such as bugs, feature requests, and questions.

License

The Terraform Provider for PowerStore is released and licensed under the MPL-2.0 license. See LICENSE for the full terms.

Prerequisites

Terraform Provider	PowerStore Version	OS	Terraform	Golang
v1.3.0	4.2, 4.3, 4.4	Ubuntu 22.04 RHEL 9.x	1.14.x 1.15.x	1.25.x

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Block Storage Management

File Storage Management

Data Protection Management

Host Access Management

QoS and IO Limit Management

List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Block Storage Management

File Storage Management

Data Protection Management

Host Access Management

QoS and IO Limit Management

Installation of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Installation from Terraform Registry

The provider will be fetched from the Terraform registry and installed by Terraform automatically. Create a file called main.tf in your workspace with the following contents

terraform {
  required_providers {
    powerstore = {
      version = "1.3.0"
      source = "registry.terraform.io/dell/powerstore"
    }
  }
}

Then, in that workspace, run

terraform init

If you are upgrading from a previous version, set the version of powerstore in the required providers block to “1.1.0” as shown above. Then, in your workspace, run

terraform init -upgrade

For more details on how to upgrade provider versions, please check out https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/configuration-language/provider-versioning

Installation from source code

Dependencies: Go 1.22.x, make, Terraform 1.5.x/1.6.x

Run

git clone https://github.com/dell/terraform-provider-powerstore.git
cd terraform-provider-powerstore
make install

Then follow installation from Terraform registry

SSL Certificate Verification

For SSL verifcation on RHEL, these steps can be performed:

Copy the CA certificate to the /etc/pki/ca-trust/source/anchors path of the host by any external means.
Import the SSL certificate to host by running

update-ca-trust extract

For SSL verification on Ubuntu, these steps can be performed:

Copy the CA certificate to the /etc/ssl/certs path of the host by any external means.
Import the SSL certificate to host by running:

 update-ca-certificates

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Terraform Provider for Dell Technnologies PowerStore follows Semantic Versioning.

New version will be released regularly if significant changes(bug fixes or new features) are made in the provider.

Released code versions are located on tags with names of the form “vx.y.z” where x.y.z corresponds to the version number.

Documentation

For more detailed information, please refer to Dell Terraform Providers Documentation.

New to Terraform?

Here are some helpful links to get you started if you are new to terraform before using our provider:

V1.3.0: Product Guide

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V1.3.0: Release Notes

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Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Release Notes 1.3.0

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Content

This release note contains supplemental information about Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore.

Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Revision history

The table in this section lists the revision history of this document.

Table 1. Revision history

Revision	Date	Description
01	Feb 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.0.0
02	June 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.1.0
03	Dec 2023	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.1.1
04	Mar 2024	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.1.2
05	July 2024	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.1.3
06	March 2025	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.2.0
07	June 2025	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.2.1
08	June 2026	Release of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore 1.3.0

Product Description

The Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore allows Data Center and IT administrators to use Hashicorp Terraform to automate and orchestrate the provisioning and management of Dell PowerStore storage systems.

The Terraform Provider can be used to manage volumes, snapshot rules, protection policies, storage containers, volume groups, hosts and host groups.

Bug Fixes

This release addresses bug fixes and security improvements to improve stability and user experience for Dell PowerStore.

Bugfix for iteration over hosts resource (#170)
Static-Check errors fixed (#171)
Security Fix (#173)

Enhancements

Added support for Recycle Bin resource and datasource (#174)
Implemented Metro Replication Support for PowerStore (#177)
Secure snapshot implementation (#178)
Added QoS Policy and I/O Limit Rule resources and datasources (#176)
Implemented remote_system resource with temporary ID/secret support (#179)
Adding remote system FC Replication (#180)
Security: Update golang.org/x/crypto to v0.52.0 to fix critical security vulnerability (#181)

New features & enhancements

Fixed the Bug Related to Host Group and Host Management Resource.

Known issues

The REST API allows modification of snapshot rule attributes, even if “is_read_only” attribute is set to “true”.
There is mismatch in documentation for “nas_access_type” parameter of snapshot rule for which actual default value is “Protocol” whereas it is mentioned as “Snapshot” in the swagger documentation.

Limitations

There are no known limitations.

Distribution

The software package is available for download from the Official Terraform Registry as well as from the Terraform Provider for PowerStore GitHub page.

Dell Technologies – PowerStore

V1.3.0: ReadMe

Terraform Provider for Dell Technologies PowerStore

Table of contents

Support

License

Prerequisites

List of Resources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Block Storage Management

File Storage Management

Data Protection Management

Host Access Management

QoS and IO Limit Management

List of DataSources in Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Block Storage Management

File Storage Management

Data Protection Management

Host Access Management

QoS and IO Limit Management

Installation of Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Installation from Terraform Registry

Installation from source code

SSL Certificate Verification

Releasing, Maintenance and Deprecation

Documentation

New to Terraform?

V1.3.0: Product Guide

V1.3.0: Release Notes

Terraform Provider for Dell PowerStore

Release Notes 1.3.0

Content

Revision history

Product Description

Bug Fixes

Enhancements

New features & enhancements

Known issues

Limitations

Distribution

Documentation