This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed getting started with the installation of dependencies for the Ansible and DellEMC Ansible module, followed by Ansible installation. Part 2 was about the high-level basics of Ansible to get you started quickly. Part […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed getting started with the installation of dependencies for the Ansible and DellEMC Ansible module, followed by Ansible installation. In Part 2 we discussed the high-level basics of Ansible to get you started quickly. The […]
This blogs lists the steps around creating RAID5 volume on Linux using local disks. We will start by installing software RAID on Linux system Now let’s identify disks which we will use for creating RAID5 volume. These disks can be local or storage LUNs. You can list the […]
This blog is not to explain what is iSCSI but rather a reference to steps which an administrator should follow for configuring iSCSI on their Linux host (CentOS in my case) Prerequisites Make sure Linux host has IP connectivity to storage appliance which is acting as iSCSI target […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage series. Earlier we discussed about getting started with installation of dependencies for Ansible and DellEMC Ansible module, followed by Ansible installation. In this blog let’s talk more around Ansible architecture and it’s concepts. So let’ get started. Similar […]
There are many blogs which cover what is Ansible and why we should care. But this multi-part blog series will cover how DellEMC and Ansible can help you automate many storage tasks. Ansible is being used in many organizations nowadays to manage a vast range of infrastructure, ranging […]
In this blog we will talk about how DellEMC can help you to store you databases smartly and efficiently. But firstly let’s talks about CDM and why it’s important. In the world of DBAs everyone’s always talking about performance, million IOPS and double/triple digit bandwidth with lowest possible […]
Containers are everywhere and they are here to stay. They are great level-playing ground to break the infrastructure dependency and allow developers to release their code to any environment. Containers also help customers to operate at greater scales with ability to quickly scaling up and down, patching with […]
In daily life of an administrator worst day is when you’ve to co-relate logs across the stack for performance troubleshooting or when you need to troubleshoot an issue which is not consistent. Usually for such issues you’ll need to enable continuous log collection and hope that issue will […]
This section seems pretty straight-forward but is the must for all the Ansible deployments. Follow below steps to get through the password maze in Ansible environments Firstly we will need to generate the SSH authentication keys. This needs to be done on the server from which you want […]