In the previous blog article we explained how to use the DellEMC PowerStore REST API to extract metrics. In this article we are going to use those skills to create a Prometheus exporter for PowerStore and some useful dashboards in Grafana This article will cover the following topics: […]
In this blog post we are going to cover how to use DellEMC PowerStore’s REST API to get performance metrics. This skill is very important if you are planning to integrate PowerStore with a monitoring solution. In particular we will use this knowledge to create a Prometheus exporter […]
In this video we show how to leverage a popular Service Management tool such as ServiceNow as well as Ansible to allow end-users to consume on-prem physical IT resources in a cloud-like fully automated fashion from both the web interface and their mobile app. When people talk about […]
Python has a great package manager called “pip”. I guess if you have come to this page you don’t need many introductions. As we know it is a good practice to deploy Python applications in their own virtual environments. When running a virtual environment we typically have to […]
This blog is the continuation of Ansible with DellEMC storage multi-part blog. In the last (6th Part) of this blog series, we discussed how to prepare Ansible Tower/AWX with Dell EMC storage credentials. In this blog post, we will install Dell EMC PowerStore collection on Ansible AWX and go […]
In the last few weeks I have spent some time creating a small emulator of the DellEMC PowerStore’s REST API. This was done for some educational requirement, but it might benefit other people out there, hence I am making it public The emulator provides: 2 API calls to […]
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”. […]