NetApp Virtual Storage Console – Migrating to a New Server

by Matthew KimlerNo Comments
I ran into this with a customer this week and felt it was a good note to point out for those that are migrating customers or themselves to a new version of vCenter. In this particular case, the customer was upgrading from vCenter 5.1 to 6.5 through another 5.5 upgrade, and additionally was going to migrate from the Windows-based vCenter to the VCSA. Like many NetApp customers that have been using NetApp as their datastore storage platform, the customer had the Virtual Storage Console (VSC) plugin for vCenter setup and running many backup jobs. The VSC software is installed on a Windows server and typically, customers that were running vCenter on Windows also installed the VSC on the same Windows server. This is fine except when the upgrade path will take the customer from the Windows-based vCenter to the appliance, where the vCenter migration will shut down the existing vCenter to make use of the original IP address and FQDN. In...
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Family Update

by Matthew KimlerNo Comments
It's been a while since I posted something about the family. That's because it's been an extremely busy year thus far and I have neglected to post on the blog. But let's give a quick update. Jameson is getting so big and really moving around now. Weighing in at just over 25 pounds, he's starting to pick up new talents like throwing balls and moving around on his own feet while sitting in his little car or on his construction truck. It's still a wonder to see how humans advance over time. Just when you think things are moving slowly, it suddenly jumps into fast mode with several new things happening at once. He also cut a new tooth and we feel there's probably a few others coming in. You have to feel bad for them when they can't express themselves verbally and there is something going on that's probably painful. It breaks your heart in a way but you know they'll...
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Red Hat Summit 2018 – Ansible Demo with NetApp Cloud Manager – Part Two – The Playbooks

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It was asked to have the playbooks shared with the community from the Ansible demo that was presented at the Red Hat Summit. Down below, I have each of the playbooks posted for anyone to take a look at and review. Please note that since this was my first time messing around with Ansible, there are most likely cleaner ways to do some of these activities, but these worked for our demo and should be a good starting point for others that want to try it out. Each playbook was broken into sections, but there's no reason that you could not put all of these into a single playbook. With that said, here you go! Playbook #1 - Basic Provisioning of EC2 instances in AWS. --- # Basic provisioning of EC2 instances. - name: Create AWS resources hosts: localhost connection: local gather_facts: False tasks: - name: Create an EC2 instance ec2: aws_access_key:...
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