| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
                
                                                            | 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. | 
                                            
                                                            | ballooning_enabled 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If true, use memory ballooning. Memory balloon is a guest device, which may be used to re-distribute / reclaim the host memory based on instance type needs in a dynamic way. In this way it's possible to create memory over commitment states. | 
                            
                                                            | boot_devices 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            cdromhdnetwork | List of boot devices which should be used to boot. For example [ cdrom, hd ]. Default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | cpu_cores 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Number of virtual CPUs cores of the Instance Type. Default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | cpu_mode 
                    -
                                                                 |  | CPU mode of the instance type. It can be some of the following: host_passthrough, host_model or custom. For host_passthrough CPU type you need to set placement_policyto pinned. If no value is passed, default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | cpu_pinning 
                    -
                                                                 |  | CPU Pinning topology to map instance type CPU to host CPU. CPU Pinning topology is a list of dictionary which can have following values: cpu- Number of the host CPU.
 vcpu- Number of the instance type CPU.
 | 
                            
                                                            | cpu_sockets 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Number of virtual CPUs sockets of the Instance Type. Default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | cpu_threads 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Number of virtual CPUs sockets of the Instance Type. Default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | description 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Description of the instance type. | 
                            
                                                            | 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. | 
                            
                                                            | graphical_console 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Assign graphical console to the instance type. Graphical console is a dictionary which can have following values: headless_mode- If true disable the graphics console for this instance type.
 protocol- Graphical protocol, a list of spice, vnc, or both.
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                                                            | high_availability 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If yes Instance Type will be set as highly available. If no Instance Type won't be set as highly available. If no value is passed, default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | high_availability_priority 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Indicates the priority of the instance type inside the run and migration queues. Instance Type with higher priorities will be started and migrated before instance types with lower priorities. The value is an integer between 0 and 100. The higher the value, the higher the priority. If no value is passed, default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | host 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Specify host where Instance Type should be running. By default the host is chosen by engine scheduler. This parameter is used only when stateis running or present. | 
                            
                                                            | id 
                    -
                                                                 |  | ID of the Instance Type to manage. | 
                            
                                                            | io_threads 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Number of IO threads used by instance type. 0 means IO threading disabled. | 
                            
                                                            | memory 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Amount of memory of the Instance Type. Prefix uses IEC 60027-2 standard (for example 1GiB, 1024MiB). Default value is set by engine. | 
                            
                                                            | memory_guaranteed 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Amount of minimal guaranteed memory of the Instance Type. Prefix uses IEC 60027-2 standard (for example 1GiB, 1024MiB). memory_guaranteedparameter can't be lower thanmemoryparameter.
 Default value is set by engine. | 
                            
                                                            | memory_max 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Upper bound of instance type memory up to which memory hot-plug can be performed. Prefix uses IEC 60027-2 standard (for example 1GiB, 1024MiB). Default value is set by engine. | 
                            
                                                            | name 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Name of the Instance Type to manage. If instance type don't exists nameis required. Otherwiseidornamecan be used. | 
                            
                                                            | nested_attributes 
                    list
                                                                 |  | Specifies list of the attributes which should be fetched from the API. This parameter apply only when fetch_nestedis true. | 
                            
                                                            | nics 
                    -
                                                                 |  | List of NICs, which should be attached to Virtual Machine. NIC is described by following dictionary. name- Name of the NIC.
 profile_name- Profile name where NIC should be attached.
 interface-  Type of the network interface. One of following virtio, e1000, rtl8139, default is virtio.
 mac_address- Custom MAC address of the network interface, by default it's obtained from MAC pool.
 NOTE - This parameter is used only when stateis running or present and is able to only create NICs. To manage NICs of the instance type in more depth please use ovirt_nic module instead. | 
                            
                                                            | operating_system 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Operating system of the Instance Type. Default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. Possible values: debian_7, freebsd, freebsdx64, other, other_linux, other_linux_kernel_4, other_linux_ppc64, other_linux_s390x, other_ppc64, other_s390x, rhcos_x64, rhel_3, rhel_3x64, rhel_4, rhel_4x64, rhel_5, rhel_5x64, rhel_6, rhel_6_9_plus_ppc64, rhel_6_ppc64, rhel_6x64, rhel_7_ppc64, rhel_7_s390x, rhel_7x64, rhel_8x64, rhel_atomic7x64, sles_11, sles_11_ppc64, sles_12_s390x, ubuntu_12_04, ubuntu_12_10, ubuntu_13_04, ubuntu_13_10, ubuntu_14_04, ubuntu_14_04_ppc64, ubuntu_16_04_s390x, windows_10, windows_10x64, windows_2003, windows_2003x64, windows_2008, windows_2008R2x64, windows_2008x64, windows_2012R2x64, windows_2012x64, windows_2016x64, windows_2019x64, windows_7, windows_7x64, windows_8, windows_8x64, windows_xp | 
                            
                                                            | placement_policy 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The configuration of the instance type's placement policy. Placement policy can be one of the following values: migratable- Allow manual and automatic migration.
 pinned- Do not allow migration.
 user_migratable- Allow manual migration only.
 If no value is passed, default value is set by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | poll_interval 
                    integer
                                                                 | Default: 
 3 | Number of the seconds the module waits until another poll request on entity status is sent. | 
                            
                                                            | rng_bytes 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Number of bytes allowed to consume per period. | 
                            
                                                            | rng_device 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Random number generator (RNG). You can choose of one the following devices urandom, random or hwrng. In order to select hwrng, you must have it enabled on cluster first. /dev/urandom is used for cluster version >= 4.1, and /dev/random for cluster version <= 4.0 | 
                            
                                                            | rng_period 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Duration of one period in milliseconds. | 
                            
                                                            | serial_console 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | True enable VirtIO serial console, False to disable it. By default is chosen by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | smartcard_enabled 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If true, use smart card authentication. | 
                            
                                                            | soundcard_enabled 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If true, the sound card is added to the instance type. | 
                            
                                                            | state 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            absentpresent ← | Should the Instance Type be present/absent. present state will create/update instance type and don't change its state if it already exists. | 
                            
                                                            | timeout 
                    integer
                                                                 | Default: 
 180 | The amount of time in seconds the module should wait for the instance to get into desired state. | 
                            
                                                            | usb_support 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | True enable USB support, False to disable it. By default is chosen by oVirt/RHV engine. | 
                            
                                                            | virtio_scsi 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If true, virtio scsi will be enabled. | 
                            
                                                            | wait 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | yesif the module should wait for the entity to get into desired state.
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                                                            | watchdog 
                    -
                                                                 |  | Assign watchdog device for the instance type. Watchdogs is a dictionary which can have following values: model- Model of the watchdog device. For example: i6300esb, diag288 or null.
 action- Watchdog action to be performed when watchdog is triggered. For example: none, reset, poweroff, pause or dump.
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