by Jacob Andathethu | Oct 21, 2019 | NFS, ONTAP, thePub, Trident, Uncategorized, Use Cases
Disaster Recovery Workflow Using Snapmirror SVM SnapMirror SVM Setup Preparing the SVM for disaster recovery involves preparing the destination cluster, creating the destination SVM, creating the SVM peer relationship, creating a SnapMirror relationship, initializing...
by Jacob Andathethu | Oct 15, 2019 | Containers, MetroCluster, NFS, ONTAP, thePub, Uncategorized
Trident and Disaster Recovery Workflow Using MetroCluster Welcome to the second installment of Trident and Disaster Recovery using ONTAP Data Replication Technologies. In this blog, we will be discussing a MetroCluster configuration. MetroCluster Setup Configuring...
by Jacob Andathethu | Oct 8, 2019 | Automation, Backup, Containers, DevOps, FlexVol, Kubernetes, NFS, ONTAP, Operations, thePub, Trident, Uncategorized
Understanding Different NetApp Data Replication Technologies and DR Best Practices It is important that we understand different disaster recovery methodologies for Trident and stateful containerized applications in the event of a disaster for business continuance....
by David Blackwell | Sep 18, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Playbooks, thePub
Ansible has asked us to change the name of one of our modules. The module ‘na_ontap_gather_facts’ will be known simply as ‘na_ontap_info’ from Ansible release 2.9 and onwards. The gather_facts version is being deprecated but will still work in the 2.9 release so...
by David Blackwell | Aug 5, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Playbooks, Use Cases
“Unexpected Error”. If you have been using the NetApp Ansible modules and seen this error, you know it can be frustrating as it doesn’t give any useful information. This error is 99.9% of the time one of the following four issues, and I will do my best to explain how...
by David Blackwell | Jul 17, 2019 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks
In all the examples we have shared so far, we haven’t been using an inventory file; instead we are simply setting ‘hosts: localhost’. A question I get asked from time to time is “How can a playbook be run against multiple clusters without having to use outside...
