powerflex Provider
The Terraform provider for Dell PowerFlex can be used to interact with a Dell PowerFlex array in order to manage the array resources.
Example Usage
provider.tf
/*
Copyright (c) 2023-2026 Dell Inc., or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/
terraform {
required_providers {
powerflex = {
version = "1.9.0"
source = "registry.terraform.io/dell/powerflex"
}
}
}
provider "powerflex" {
username = var.username
password = var.password
endpoint = var.endpoint
insecure = true
timeout = 120
## The provider can also be set using environment variables
## If environment variables are set it will override this configuration
## Example environment variables
# POWERFLEX_USERNAME="username"
# POWERFLEX_PASSWORD="password"
# POWERFLEX_ENDPOINT="https://yourhost.host.com"
# POWERFLEX_INSECURE="true"
# POWERFLEX_TIMEOUT="120"
}
resource "powerflex_protection_domain" "pd" {
name = "domain_1"
}
resource "powerflex_sds" "sds1" {
name = "sds_1"
protection_domain_id = powerflex_protection_domain.pd.id
ip_list = [
{
ip = "10.10.10.1"
role = "all"
}
]
depends_on = [powerflex_protection_domain.pd]
}
resource "powerflex_sds" "sds2" {
name = "sds_2"
protection_domain_id = powerflex_protection_domain.pd.id
ip_list = [
{
ip = "10.10.10.2"
role = "all"
}
]
depends_on = [powerflex_protection_domain.pd]
}
resource "powerflex_sds" "sds3" {
name = "sds_3"
protection_domain_id = powerflex_protection_domain.pd.id
ip_list = [
{
ip = "10.10.10.3"
role = "all"
}
]
depends_on = [powerflex_protection_domain.pd]
}
resource "powerflex_storage_pool" "sp" {
name = "SP"
protection_domain_id = powerflex_protection_domain.pd.id
media_type = "HDD"
use_rmcache = true
use_rfcache = true
}
resource "powerflex_device" "device1" {
name = "device1"
device_path = "/dev/sdb"
sds_id = powerflex_sds.sds1.id
storage_pool_id = powerflex_storage_pool.sp.id
media_type = "HDD"
external_acceleration_type = "ReadAndWrite"
depends_on = [powerflex_storage_pool.sp]
}
resource "powerflex_device" "device2" {
name = "device2"
device_path = "/dev/sdb"
sds_id = powerflex_sds.sds2.id
storage_pool_id = powerflex_storage_pool.sp.id
media_type = "HDD"
external_acceleration_type = "ReadAndWrite"
depends_on = [powerflex_storage_pool.sp]
}
resource "powerflex_device" "device3" {
name = "device3"
device_path = "/dev/sdb"
sds_id = powerflex_sds.sds3.id
storage_pool_id = powerflex_storage_pool.sp.id
media_type = "HDD"
external_acceleration_type = "ReadAndWrite"
depends_on = [powerflex_storage_pool.sp]
}
resource "powerflex_volume" "volume" {
name = "volume1"
protection_domain_id = powerflex_protection_domain.pd.id
storage_pool_id = powerflex_storage_pool.sp.id
size = 16
volume_type = "ThinProvisioned"
depends_on = [powerflex_device.device1, powerflex_device.device2, powerflex_device.device3]
}
resource "powerflex_sdc_volumes_mapping" "map" {
id = "e3d105e900000005"
volume_list = [
{
volume_id = powerflex_volume.volume.id
limit_iops = 140
limit_bw_in_mbps = 19
access_mode = "ReadOnly"
},
]
depends_on = [powerflex_volume.volume]
}
resource "powerflex_package" "upload-test" {
file_path = ["/root/powerflex_packages/PowerFlex_3.6.700.103_RHEL_OEL7/EMC-ScaleIO-lia-3.6-700.103.el7.x86_64.rpm",
"/root/powerflex_packages/PowerFlex_3.6.700.103_RHEL_OEL7/EMC-ScaleIO-mdm-3.6-700.103.el7.x86_64.rpm",
"/root/powerflex_packages/PowerFlex_3.6.700.103_RHEL_OEL7/EMC-ScaleIO-sds-3.6-700.103.el7.x86_64.rpm",
"/root/powerflex_packages/PowerFlex_3.6.700.103_RHEL_OEL7/EMC-ScaleIO-sdc-3.6-700.103.el7.x86_64.rpm",
"/root/powerflex_packages/PowerFlex_3.6.700.103_RHEL_OEL7/EMC-ScaleIO-sdr-3.6-700.103.el7.x86_64.rpm",
"/root/powerflex_packages/PowerFlex_3.6.700.103_RHEL_OEL7/EMC-ScaleIO-sdt-3.6-700.103.el7.x86_64.rpm"]
}
resource "powerflex_user" "user" {
name = "NewUser"
role = "Monitor"
password = "Password123"
}
variables.tf
/*
Copyright (c) 2023-2026 Dell Inc., or its subsidiaries. All Rights Reserved.
Licensed under the Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
*/
variable "username" {
type = string
description = "Stores the username of PowerFlex host."
}
variable "password" {
type = string
description = "Stores the password of PowerFlex host."
}
variable "endpoint" {
type = string
description = "Stores the endpoint of PowerFlex host. eg: https://10.1.1.1:443, here 443 is port where API requests are getting accepted"
}
Schema
Optional
endpoint(String) The PowerFlex Gateway server URL (inclusive of the port). This can also be set using the environment variable POWERFLEX_ENDPOINTinsecure(Boolean) Specifies if the user wants to skip SSL verification. This can also be set using the environment variable POWERFLEX_INSECUREpassword(String, Sensitive) The password required for the authentication. This can also be set using the environment variable POWERFLEX_PASSWORDtimeout(Number) HTTPS timeout. This can also be set using the environment variable POWERFLEX_TIMEOUTusername(String) The username required for authentication. This can also be set using the environment variable POWERFLEX_USERNAME