SYSADMINTUTORIALS IT TECHNOLOGY BLOG

Getting Started with Terraform and VMware vCloud Director

December 2, 2019 sysadmintutorials 1

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.

Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible

November 23, 2019 sysadmintutorials 0

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 it as much.

NetApp Auto Aggregate Volume Evacuation With PowerShell

October 14, 2019 sysadmintutorials 0

Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate or decommission an aggregate? This week I had to evacuate about 50+ volumes from an aggregate that is being decommissioned. Instead of typing out the vol move command 50+ times I decided to automate it with NetApp Powershell module.

Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware

August 21, 2019 sysadmintutorials 2

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.

How To Automate NetApp Installations With Ansible

August 4, 2019 sysadmintutorials 0

Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation with NetApp.

NetApp Ontap 9.6 Simulator Upgrade

June 26, 2019 sysadmintutorials 2

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.

How to Create VMware vSphere 6.7 Lab On Home PC

May 10, 2019 sysadmintutorials 2

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.

Cisco UCS FI 6332 Bootflash has unrecoverable error

April 21, 2019 sysadmintutorials 0

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:

Automating The Installation Of VMware ESXi With PowerCLI

March 30, 2019 sysadmintutorials 1

I saved a tweet a while back from William Lam about the ability to send keystrokes to a VM via PowerCLI. The first thing that popped into mind is “Automating a nested ESXi installation”. As you could imagine this would be extremely convenient in spinning up a new VMware Lab.