There are many use cases where VxRAIL manager, VMware vCenter Console, or vSuite will not be enough for your goals in mind. So, for monitoring and management of your VxRAIL cluster, you can utilize the VxRAIL REST API for achieving your end goal in mind. There are multiple […]
When we think about automation use cases we typically think about automated provisioning and software releases. But this is only a portion of what engineers have to deal with. Sooner or later things break, pagers ring (yes, I guess I am old enough to know what a pager […]
In this article we will explore how to create incidents in ServiceNow using the REST API. This article was a stepping stone for this video that shows how to integrate ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams and alerts from infrastructure. You might also be interested in the second post in this […]
This article is part of a series that discusses the REST API’s of various DellEMC storage platforms. In a previous article we introduced the PowerStore REST API and showed a few tricks and best practices. In this article we will show a step-by-step example of using the DellEMC […]
This blog post is 4th part of REST API with DellEMC Storage blog series. In earlier posts we discussed what is REST API and how to use it with XtremIO, PowerMax and Unity. In this post, we will discuss how you can manage Dell EMC PowerStore storage system […]
Today we will be discussing the details and artefacts of Project Vision. This project leverages Postman’s import collection capabilities to provide sample API calls. It provides API examples for the following products: PowerMax XtremIO Unity PowerFlex(formerly ScaleIO and VxFlex) PowerStore PowerOne VPLEX – Courtesy of Ankur Patel […]
In today’s article I wanted to share some work I have been doing recently, specifically a prototype for an on-prem Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) with DellEMC PowerStore A few years ago we used to hear a lot the “we have a cloud-first policy” and this of course meant “public cloud”. […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (5th part) of this blog series, we discussed how to install Ansible AWX / Tower in a docker container and Dell EMC Ansible modules inside the Ansible AWX / Tower container. In this […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In this 5th part, we will discuss about Ansible Tower (using AWX) and how to install and configure the same. Overview In my posts till now you might noticed that I have only used command line option to […]
Recently while I was trying to install AWX using Ansible I came across below error on Centos. While this error was referring to missing pip package “docker-compose”, but when I tried to install the same it gave below error stating that it’s already installed. After trying multiple solutions […]