| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
                
                                                            | activate 
                    boolean
                                                                 added in 2.4 |  | If stateis present activate the host. This parameter is good to disable, when you don't want to change the state of host when using present state. | 
                            
                                                            | address 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Host address. It can be either FQDN (preferred) or IP address. | 
                            
                                                            | auth 
                    dictionary
                                             / required                     |  | Dictionary with values needed to create HTTP/HTTPS connection to oVirt: | 
                                                        
                                                |  | ca_file 
                    string
                                                                 |  | A PEM file containing the trusted CA certificates. The certificate presented by the server will be verified using these CA certificates. If ca_fileparameter is not set, system wide CA certificate store is used. Default value is set by OVIRT_CAFILEenvironment variable. | 
                            
                                                |  | headers 
                    dictionary
                                                                 |  | Dictionary of HTTP headers to be added to each API call. | 
                            
                                                |  | hostname 
                    string
                                                                 |  | A string containing the hostname of the server, usually something like `server.example.com`. Default value is set by OVIRT_HOSTNAMEenvironment variable. Either urlorhostnameis required. | 
                            
                                                |  | insecure 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | A boolean flag that indicates if the server TLS certificate and host name should be checked. | 
                            
                                                |  | kerberos 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | A boolean flag indicating if Kerberos authentication should be used instead of the default basic authentication. | 
                            
                                                |  | password 
                    string
                                             / required                     |  | The password of the user. Default value is set by OVIRT_PASSWORDenvironment variable. | 
                            
                                                |  | token 
                    string
                                                                 |  | Token to be used instead of login with username/password. Default value is set by OVIRT_TOKENenvironment variable. | 
                            
                                                |  | url 
                    string
                                                                 |  | A string containing the API URL of the server, usually something like `https://server.example.com/ovirt-engine/api`. Default value is set by OVIRT_URLenvironment variable. Either urlorhostnameis required. | 
                            
                                                |  | username 
                    string
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the user, something like admin@internal. Default value is set by OVIRT_USERNAMEenvironment variable. | 
                                            
                                                            | check_upgrade 
                    boolean
                                                                 added in 2.4 |  | If true and stateis upgraded run check for upgrade action before executing upgrade action. | 
                            
                                                            | cluster 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Name of the cluster, where host should be created. | 
                            
                                                            | comment 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Description of the host. | 
                            
                                                            | fetch_nested 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If True the module will fetch additional data from the API. It will fetch IDs of the VMs disks, snapshots, etc. User can configure to fetch other attributes of the nested entities by specifying nested_attributes. | 
                            
                                                            | force 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | Indicates that the host should be removed even if it is non-responsive, or if it is part of a Gluster Storage cluster and has volume bricks on it. WARNING: It doesn't forcibly remove the host if another host related operation is being executed on the host at the same time. | 
                            
                                                            | hosted_engine 
                    -
                                                                 |  | If deploy it means this host should deploy also hosted engine components. If undeploy it means this host should un-deploy hosted engine components and this host will not function as part of the High Availability cluster. | 
                            
                                                            | id 
                    -
                                                                 added in 2.8 |  | ID of the host to manage. | 
                            
                                                            | iscsi 
                    -
                                                                 added in 2.4 |  | If stateis iscsidiscover it means that the iscsi attribute is being used to discover targets If stateis iscsilogin it means that the iscsi attribute is being used to login to the specified targets passed as part of the iscsi attribute | 
                            
                                                            | kdump_integration 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            enableddisabled | Specify if host will have enabled Kdump integration. | 
                            
                                                            | kernel_params 
                    -
                                                                 |  | List of kernel boot parameters. Following are most common kernel parameters used for host: Hostdev Passthrough & SR-IOV: intel_iommu=on Nested Virtualization: kvm-intel.nested=1 Unsafe Interrupts: vfio_iommu_type1.allow_unsafe_interrupts=1 PCI Reallocation: pci=realloc Note:
 Modifying kernel boot parameters settings can lead to a host boot failure. Please consult the product documentation before doing any changes. Kernel boot parameters changes require host deploy and restart. The host needs to be reinstalled successfully and then to be rebooted for kernel boot parameters to be applied. | 
                            
                                                            | name 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | Name of the host to manage. | 
                            
                                                            | nested_attributes 
                    list
                                                                 |  | Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API. This parameter apply only when fetch_nestedis true. | 
                            
                                                            | override_display 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | Override the display address of all VMs on this host with specified address. | 
                            
                                                            | override_iptables 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If True host iptables will be overridden by host deploy script. Note that override_iptablesis false by default in oVirt/RHV. | 
                            
                                                            | password 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Password of the root. It's required in case public_keyis set to False. | 
                            
                                                            | poll_interval 
                    integer
                                                                 | Default: 
 3 | Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent. | 
                            
                                                            | power_management_enabled 
                    boolean
                                                                 added in 2.4 |  | Enable or disable power management of the host. For more comprehensive setup of PM use ovirt_host_pmmodule. | 
                            
                                                            | public_key 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | True if the public key should be used to authenticate to host. It's required in case passwordis not set. aliases: ssh_public_key
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                                                            | reboot_after_upgrade 
                    boolean
                                                                 added in 2.6 |  | If true and stateis upgraded reboot host after successful upgrade. | 
                            
                                                            | spm_priority 
                    -
                                                                 |  | SPM priority of the host. Integer value from 1 to 10, where higher number means higher priority. | 
                            
                                                            | state 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            present ←absentmaintenanceupgradedstartedrestartedstoppedreinstallediscsidiscoveriscsilogin | State which should a host to be in after successful completion. iscsilogin and iscsidiscover are supported since version 2.4. | 
                            
                                                            | timeout 
                    integer
                                                                 | Default: 
 600 | The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the host to get into desired state. | 
                            
                                                            | vgpu_placement 
                    -
                                                                 added in 2.8 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            consolidatedseparated | If consolidated, each vGPU is placed on the first physical card with available space. This is the default placement, utilizing all available space on the physical cards. If separated, each vGPU is placed on a separate physical card, if possible. This can be useful for improving vGPU performance. | 
                            
                                                            | wait 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | yesif the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.
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