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 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 Madhuri Vemulakonda | Oct 20, 2017 | Automation, DevOps, Jenkins, Use Cases
One of the key charters of NetApp Product Tools Analytics Globalization Services (PTAGS) is to enable a service-oriented cloud platform for big-data telemetry across the NetApp product portfolio to derive analytical insights and simplify the customer experience...
by John Klassa | Jul 12, 2017 | Use Cases
As an internal IT service provider to NetApp engineering, we have the need to track who’s using our tools and services. This lets us make sound business decisions about where to invest our limited time and energy, and generally enables us to have insightful and...
