NetApp® ONTAP® REST APIs are creating a break-through in everyday storage management tasks. ONTAP REST APIs reflect careful consideration of the complexity of traditional storage management through ZAPIs or CLIs. The REST APIs are more focus on simplicity and improved...
There are sites that name all or most of their volumes with the same base name. (Share001, Share002, Share003 or Home001, Home002, Home003). A common question I get asked all the time is , “How to use Ansible to auto create the next X number of volumes in the...
Harvest2 is out now and to help celebrate we have a super easy way for you to set it up. While you can still setup your own Prometheus, Grafana, and install Harvest on your own, you don’t have to. Let me show you how (here) That Git repo has everything you need to...
If you haven’t been made aware, playbooks are now being published to https://www.github.com/netapp-automation/ansible for anyone to use. Most of the playbooks being posted are what I call lookups. Lookups use the na_ontap_info module to pull information about one or...
Sometimes it is useful to create a single playbook or role that does multiple steps, but not steps you want to run every time. You can use ‘tags’ to only include or exclude certain tasks in a playbook. To look at this concept I will use a playbook for creating...
