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How to Upgrade Your NetApp Simulator to ONTAP 9.7

December 11, 2019 sysadmintutorials 0

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

Ansible vars_prompt - Authentication Prompt

Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt

December 5, 2019 sysadmintutorials 0

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:

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.

VMworld 2018 Day 1 Announcements

August 28, 2018 sysadmintutorials 0

VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New

VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements from Pat Gelsinger that I want to highlight in this post.

NetApp Ontap 9 Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning

July 29, 2018 sysadmintutorials 0

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