Amazon AWS Posts
How To Easily Create An AWS Linux EC2 Instance
This is a beginner’s guide to creating your first Amazon AWS EC2 Linux Instance in one of the world’s largest hyper scalers.
Vmware Posts
How To Join Existing vCenter Servers By Enhanced Linked Mode
Last month I was asked to join two existing VMware vCenter Servers each with embedded platform services controllers, in enhanced linked mode. Additionally, this will create one SSO domain and enable vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode.
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
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:
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.
Netapp Posts
Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Ansible Playbooks for NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirror
Steps involved in Creating a NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirror
Ansbile Files for NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirror Creation
Variables.yml
We then have our source cluster name. As this is an LS-Mirror the source and destination cluster name will be the same.
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
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.
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.
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.