PowerCLI: Show HBA Path Status
When you have a lot of hosts, with a lot of LUNs, it can be difficult to keep abreast of the status of the paths for them. I have encountered issues where a path was unknowingly marked as dead, plus...
View ArticlePowerCLI: Balance LUN paths for a Cluster
As I’ve been managing more and more infrastructures using fibre channel storage, I’ve found that it’s been somewhat difficult to keep the LUN paths to each host balanced. By balanced, I mean that for...
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Changing the vCenter 5.5 Appliance Hostname
How to change the hostname of the vCenter appliance, including updating the self-signed SSL certificates… Log into the administrative web page for your appliance using your browser of choice....
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Executing WFA workflows from vCenter Orchestrator using REST
In the previous post I showed how to execute a NetApp OnCommand Workflow Automation (WFA) workflow using the REST cmdlets available in Powershell version 4. However, any language or platform can be...
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Using the NetApp OnCommand WFA package for vCO
The last two posts have shown some interesting possibilities regarding integration between VMware’s vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) and NetApp Workflow Automation (WFA), however both methods were rather...
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Connecting vCenter Orchestrator to the WFA database
The last few posts have been describing how to use REST to execute NetApp Workflow Automation (WFA) workflows remotely. The most recent post showed how to use the NetApp Workflow Automation Package for...
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Using the vCO-to-WFA database connection
Previously we connected vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) to the NetApp Workflow Automation (WFA) database in order to perform queries against it. By itself this isn’t terribly useful when we are wanting to...
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Getting data from NetApp Workflow Automation using Finders and REST
Using the database to get information from Workflow Automation (WFA) and create dynamic vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflows is one way to add dynamic data fields to those workflows. However, it just...
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Using REST + WFA Finders to Create Dynamic vCO Workflows
In the last post we covered how to create Filters and Finders in WFA so that we could access WFA data through a RESTful interface. This creates a nice separation between the two systems and decouples...
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Populate vRO workflow inputs from WFA 3.0 using REST
One of the challenges when using the NetApp vRO Package for WFA has been making the inputs dynamically populate with the correct information from WFA. If you add a new volume, aggregate, SVM, or other...
View ArticleNetApp’s Integration with VMware’s Ecosystem
As I have transitioned from being a customer to being an employee with NetApp I have become aware of the breadth of integration between VMware and NetApp. I have realized that as a customer, I was only...
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NetApp vRealize Integration Package for OnCommand WFA version 3.0.1
Not too long ago we released a new version of the vRealize Integration Package for OnCommand WFA v3.0, which had a significant number of improvements around speed, flexibility, and overall robustness....
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