Josh Atwell

Josh Atwell is a Developer Advocate for NetApp, focused on building a developer community and enabling customers and partner success. Over the last 15+ years he has worked very hard to allow little pieces of code to do his work for him through various automation tools. Josh is a contributing author to the popular Mastering vSphere series and the DevOps for VMware Administrators book. He is a serial community builder and loves getting people together to talk technology or tell stories of pain and success. Never known for lacking an opinion he blogs at vtesseract.com and tweets at @josh_atwell.

Insight 2017

September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 by Josh Atwell

Insight, NetApp’s annual conference, returns to Vegas next week. Last year we introduced thePub to the world with a demo on the main stage and the Developer Cafe. We had a great time! And this year we’ve stepped it up a notch. This year Insight attendees will have an opportunity to join us in the … Read more

How To: Get Awesome Stickers

July 12, 2017April 1, 2017 by Josh Atwell

I have small children. They love stickers. They like to put them everywhere as small children will do. Who are we to judge? We love our stickers as well. Hit up any Meetup or conference and you’ll see sticker graffiti decorating laptops in all directions. Like sticky tattoos for our digital devices we use our stickers … Read more

Changing Mounted Script Directory for SolidFire PowerShell Docker Image

March 29, 2017March 30, 2017 by Josh Atwell

Last month the NetApp SolidFire integrations team released the latest PowerShell Tools for managing SolidFire systems. This release (1.3.1.4) is the first release to also include direct support for the module outside of Microsoft Windows operating environments. Leveraging the recently open-sourced .Net Core, this release allows us to deploy the SolidFire PowerShell Tools on Linux, … Read more

Using Connect-SFCluster in SolidFire PowerShell Module

October 7, 2016September 9, 2016 by Josh Atwell

SolidFire’s architecture and API provides a wide range of capabilities. However, implementation of some features, and the collection of some information, requires connecting to both SolidFire Nodes and Clusters. The Connect-SFCluster cmdlet provides the necessary parameters and capabilities to service a wide range of needs. In this post we’ll discuss the Connect-SFCluster cmdlet and the … Read more