by David Blackwell | May 26, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub
Active IQ is a digital advisor providing insights into NetApp environments allowing the proactive care and optimization of those systems. The web-based dashboard (aiq.netapp.com) makes it easy to monitor your systems and provides the steps to remediate any potential...
by David Blackwell | May 15, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Cluster, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, Operations, Playbooks, thePub, Use Cases
Fully automated Day-0 setup is a goal of the “next-gen” datacenter. This is 99.9% possible with ONTAP and Ansible. The only console work that needs to be done is to assign a password to the ‘admin’ account and to make note of the DHCP address assigned to the nodes,...
by Bala RameshBabu | Apr 28, 2020 | Containers, ONTAP, Trident
The Trident Operator is now available with Trident 20.04! With the operator, users can install Trident 20.04 and take advantage of the self-healing features that it provides. This lays the foundation for automatically managing a Trident installation; the operator is...
by Matt Trudewind | Apr 3, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, thePub
It is very important to ensure that your data is able to meet your organization’s security objectives. ONTAP includes many security capabilities and features. However, since each organization’s security objectives are different, not all of the security...
by Bala RameshBabu | Jan 31, 2020 | Containers, ONTAP, thePub, Trident
As part of our first major release of 2020, the Trident team has introduced a host of new features. This includes Virtual Storage Pools support for ONTAP backends, enhancing Trident’s ability to define StorageClasses to be backend-agnostic and employ key-value pairs...
by David Blackwell | Jan 29, 2020 | Ansible, Automation, Configuration Management, DevOps, ONTAP, thePub
This is the third installment in my series on ‘Working with AWX Tower’. I have already covered installing AWX Tower and setting up credentials for working with an ONTAP cluster previously. Now I am going to show you how to add a Project and the first Template from...
