NetApp Ontap Upgrades Read This Before Proceeding
After doing many NetApp Ontap upgrades, there was one thing that made an upgrade last 6 hours more than it…
Veeam Backup and Replication V10 – VM And NAS File Backups
Veeam Backup and Replication V10 was recently released and I was keen to get this deployed in the lab and…
NetApp ONTAP 9.7 Simulator Upgrade How To
In this article I’m going to walk you through the steps I used to upgrade my NetApp Simulator from ONTAP…
Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the…
Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy…
NetApp Auto Aggregate Volume Evacuation With PowerShell
Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate or decommission an aggregate?…
Creating Multi-Part Ansible Playbook With Variables – NetApp and VMware
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp…
How To Automate NetApp Installations With Ansible
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation…
NetApp Ontap 9.6 Simulator Upgrade
Today has been the release of NetApp Ontap 9.6 RC2 and what better way to get familiar with it than…
VMworld 2018 Day 1 Announcements
VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements from Pat Gelsinger that…
NetApp Ontap 9 Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap 9.x that saves a…
NetApp – Sense Data SCSI:aborted command
NetApp scsi.cmd.checkCondition Warning A quick blog post to highlight an EMS event that we have encountered after upgrading to Ontap…