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After doing many NetApp Ontap upgrades, there was one thing that made an upgrade last 6 hours more than it should of, and it’s to do with the serial port and service processor
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
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:
We then have our source cluster name. As this is an LS-Mirror the source and destination cluster name will be the same.
This first part checks to see if the DataOntap PowerShell module is loaded. If it isn’t, then it will load the module
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.
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation with NetApp.
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.
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap 9.x that saves a tonne of time called – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning. In this post I will show you what steps to go through when using option 9 – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
A quick blog post to highlight an EMS event that we have encountered after upgrading to Ontap 9.3 whereby the EMS throws up the following warning:
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