The demand to consume IT resources “as a service” continues to grow. This trend is changing how storage infrastructure is deployed, maintained, and consumed. At the same time, the consumers of our storage infrastructure are also changing. To serve these new needs, storage infrastructure management must be driven through automation. Thus, traditional enterprise IT organizations face a challenge to adapt and foster new practices and skillsets needed to deliver these “infrastructure as code” solutions. In this webinar, IT Director Eduardo Rivera will cover how NetApp IT has been evolving its sto ..read more

 As storage management experts, NetApp IT leans on tools like Red Hat Ansible to help automate the delivery of consistent storage environments, reduce configuration errors, and respond to threshold limits. The team uses ONTAP Ansible modules to reduce day 0 build times from a 2-day manual process to a 10-minute automated process. At the same time, the team is constantly looking for new ways to increase operational security. Perhaps now more than ever, organizations need to protect themselves from cyberattacks, data breaches, or ransomware. Learn how NetApp IT integrated CyberArk with Ans ..read more

By Victor Ifediora As storage management experts, NetApp IT leans on tools like Red Hat Ansible to help automate the delivery of consistent storage environments, reduce configuration errors, and respond to threshold limits. Two years ago, our team started using ONTAP® Ansible modules to reduce day 0 build times from a 2-day manual process to a 10-minute automated process. Today, our use of Ansible has grown to include the following: – Manage adaptive quality of service (AQoS) – Enforce Snapshot policies – Manage inode full alerts – Provision end-to-end storage virtual machines ..read more

https://youtu.be/5XLmrexxIJ4 Like other organizations, NetApp IT is constantly looking for ways to improve operational efficiency and automate delivery for the hybrid cloud world. Using NetApp Trident, a fully automated persistent storage provisioner for Red Hat OpenShift, NetApp IT can quickly spin up compute resources for containerized applications while doing the same for storage. The team also uses Red Hat Ansible Automation to maintain the desired state configuration on thousands of servers to eliminate hours of manual effort. In this month’s NetApp on NetApp INFORM Session, learn how IT ..read more

Leyddy Portas Okay, good afternoon, everyone and welcome to this NetApp on NetApp inform session. I’m going to be your host today, my name is Leyddy Portas and I am a technical partner manager here at NetApp. Just a quick note for those who are new to these informed sessions, we’re hosting these every month. So if you’re not receiving invitations through me, just contact us, me or Elias, and we’ll be happy to add you to our DL. I’ll be posting our emails on the chat just in a few minutes. So today we have a lot of people on the call, so if you have any doubts or any questions during ..read more

At the 2020 NetApp INSIGHT Digital Event, Senior Systems Administrator Matt Norton demonstrated IT’s second-generation Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering inside NetApp.   From a self-service portal built on ServiceNow, users can register their business applications directly into the CMDB. As a service, it automatically provisions and deprovisions virtual machines, logical load balancers, storage (NAS, block, object), and performs “Day 2” operations like start, stop, and resize.   T ..read more

Automation & Containerized Apps Success with NetApp Trident and RedHat OpenShift & Ansible Leyddy Portas: Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to this NetApp on NetApp INFORM session. I’m going to be your host today. My name is Leyddy Portas and I am a technical partner manager at NetApp. Just a quick note for those who are new to these NetApp INFORM webinars. We are hosting them every month, so if you haven’t received the invitations through me, please contact me or Elias. I’ll put the email on the chat now, and we’ll be happy to add you to our distribution list. Today, we have a lot ..read more

DEM-1182-2 | Watch Presented by Ram Kodialbail, Sr. IT Storage Engineer NetApp IT implemented a greenfield DevOps platform called CloudOne to provide a highly automated, self-service, cloud-based application development platforms. On this platform, database backups to StorageGRID are automatically created. Learn how IT created an “S3 as a Service” offering using StorageGRID and Ansible to automatically create a S3 bucket. Key Takeaways Short demo of Ansible playbook to provide S3 as a Service using StorageGRID Learn how NetApp IT created an automated way to create resources, i.e. buckets and ..read more

At the 2020 NetApp INSIGHT Digital Event, Senior Storage Engineer Ram Kodialbail gave a quick demonstration on how NetApp IT is using StorageGRID and Ansible to create “S3 as a Service.”  NetApp IT has built a hybrid, multicloud platform called CloudOne to provide a highly automated, self-service, cloud-based application development platforms. On this platform, database backups to StorageGRID are automatically created.   In a 12-minute video, Ram describes how IT created an “S3 as a Service” offering using Sto ..read more

At the 2020 NetApp INSIGHT Digital Event, Senior IT Systems Engineer Dave Fox presented a demo on the NetApp IT Automation Use Case for Trident, OpenShift and Ansible. Like other organizations, NetApp IT is constantly looking for ways to improve operational efficiency and automate delivery. Using NetApp Trident—a fully automated persistent storage provisioner for Red Hat OpenShift—NetApp IT can quickly spin up compute resources for containerized applications while doing the same for storage. The team also uses Red Hat Ansible automation to maintain the desired state configuration on thousands ..read more