In part 3 of our Ansible for SAN Automation series I'm going to document how I build automations targeting deployment and configuration management and routine tasks on a Pure Storage FlashArray//X. Take my word for it, Pure Storage's FlashArray//X has to be the nicest all-flash storage array on the...
The most difficult hurdle I see in automating a SAN infrastructure is with network equipment like Fiber Channel switches. Typically these tend to be devices that the network team dont want to administer so this equipment management usually falls to the storage team, and rightly so. A problem I see...
Here is a quick how to for enabling Cisco MDS & Nexus scheduled backups via CLI. The following procedure will allow your switches will log into a SFTP server nightly where it will drop a backup of its config.
It has been quite a while since I posted. Sorry for the year + long hiatus. I have a lot of work that I would like to document on my Blog. About 9 months ago I accepted a new role at a new job. That came with the usual flurry of new work, learning their environments and equipment. But one of the...
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Tony Lucent
Blog Owner - System Engineer - Technology Enthusiast
I excel in data storage, storage area networking, disaster recovery, and virtualization.
