Netapp Posts
NetApp ONTAP 9.7 Simulator Upgrade How To
In this article I’m going to walk you through the steps I used to upgrade my NetApp Simulator from ONTAP 9.6 to the new ONTAP 9.7 RC1 Warning: This is strictly performed on the NetApp […]
Year: 2019
Netapp Posts
Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this: Let’s face it, adding the […]
Vmware Posts
Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director
If you have heard the announcements earlier this year and at VMworld 2019, you will know that VMware is embracing Terraform for VMware vCloud Director. This means that your Automation for VMware vCloud Director just […]
Netapp Posts
Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy […]
Netapp Posts
NetApp Auto Aggregate Volume Evacuation With PowerShell
NetApp Auto Aggregate Evacuation Script This first part checks to see if the DataOntap PowerShell module is loaded. If it isn’t, then it will load the module The second part prompts you to enter in […]
Netapp Posts
Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp simulator, you would have seen that it was one gigantic playbook. Working with one gigantic […]
Netapp Posts
How To Automate NetApp Installations With Ansible
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation with NetApp. I bookmarked a link to a blog article that was posted on NetApp.io […]
Netapp Posts
NetApp Ontap 9.6 Simulator Upgrade
Today has been the release of NetApp Ontap 9.6 RC2 and what better way to get familiar with it than to run it up in the lab as a simulator. The simulator is not yet […]
Vmware Posts
How to Create VMware vSphere 6.7 Lab On Home PC
In this video tutorial, I walk you through how to set up a fully functional VMware vSphere 6.7 Lab within your home pc utilizing VMware Workstation. This is the exact way I started with my […]
Cisco Posts
Cisco UCS FI 6332 Bootflash has unrecoverable error
Last week I was testing a Cisco UCS migration from fabric interconnect 6248UP to 6332. Upon testing I noticed straight out of the box that the 6332’s had the following error: ERROR: bootflash: has unrecoverable […]