| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
                
                                                            | description 
                    -
                                                                 |  | A user-defined description of the template. Enter up to 256 characters. You can use any characters or spaces except the following: ` (accent mark),  (backslash), ^ (carat), " (double quote), = (equal sign), > (greater than), < (less than), or ' (single quote). aliases: descr
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                                                            | fabric 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The Fabric ID field. The name of the fabric interconnect that vHBAs created with this template are associated with. | 
                            
                                                            | hostname 
                    string
                                             / required                     |  | IP address or hostname of Cisco UCS Manager. | 
                            
                                                            | max_data 
                    -
                                                                 | Default: 
 "2048" | The Max Data Field Size field. The maximum size of the Fibre Channel frame payload bytes that the vHBA supports. Enter an string between '256' and '2112'. | 
                            
                                                            | name 
                    -
                                             / required                     |  | The name of the virtual HBA template. This name can be between 1 and 16 alphanumeric characters. You cannot use spaces or any special characters other than - (hyphen), "_" (underscore), : (colon), and . (period). You cannot change this name after the template is created. | 
                            
                                                            | org_dn 
                    -
                                                                 | Default: 
 "org-root" | Org dn (distinguished name) | 
                            
                                                            | password 
                    string
                                             / required                     |  | Password for Cisco UCS Manager authentication. | 
                            
                                                            | pin_group 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The SAN pin group that is associated with vHBAs created from this template. | 
                            
                                                            | port 
                    integer
                                                                 |  | Port number to be used during connection (by default uses 443 for https and 80 for http connection). | 
                            
                                                            | proxy 
                    string
                                                                 |  | If use_proxy is no, specfies proxy to be used for connection. e.g. 'http://proxy.xy.z:8080' | 
                            
                                                            | qos_policy 
                    -
                                                                 |  | The QoS policy that is associated with vHBAs created from this template. | 
                            
                                                            | redundancy_type 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            none ←primarysecondary | The Redundancy Type used for template pairing from the Primary or Secondary redundancy template. primary — Creates configurations that can be shared with the Secondary template. Any other shared changes on the Primary template are automatically synchronized to the Secondary template. secondary — All shared configurations are inherited from the Primary template. none - Legacy vHBA template behavior. Select this option if you do not want to use redundancy. | 
                            
                                                            | state 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            present ←absent | If present, will verify vHBA templates are present and will create if needed. If absent, will verify vHBA templates are absent and will delete if needed. | 
                            
                                                            | stats_policy 
                    -
                                                                 | Default: 
 "default" | The statistics collection policy that is associated with vHBAs created from this template. | 
                            
                                                            | template_type 
                    -
                                                                 | Choices:
                                                                                                                                                            initial-template ←updating-template | The Template Type field. This can be one of the following: initial-template — vHBAs created from this template are not updated if the template changes. updating-template - vHBAs created from this template are updated if the template changes. | 
                            
                                                            | use_proxy 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If no, will not use the proxy as defined by system environment variable. | 
                            
                                                            | use_ssl 
                    boolean
                                                                 |  | If no, an HTTP connection will be used instead of the default HTTPS connection. | 
                            
                                                            | username 
                    string
                                                                 | Default: 
 "admin" | Username for Cisco UCS Manager authentication. | 
                            
                                                            | vsan 
                    -
                                                                 | Default: 
 "default" | The VSAN to associate with vHBAs created from this template. | 
                            
                                                            | wwpn_pool 
                    -
                                                                 | Default: 
 "default" | The WWPN pool that a vHBA created from this template uses to derive its WWPN address. |