rustic phoenix
One of my firm's goals is end to end build of an ONTAP cluster via automation. We often hit various issues with this and was wondering how close or if anyone has gotten a close to zero touch build out working? What tools are you using and what prep work are you having done to start the cluster builds?
< I will devulge more information as we get going here >.
velvet lagoon
we tried a lot but it's not really possible... you can basically only automate stuff after the basic cluster setup is through, and even then, with the new REST API, lots of system level stuff is hidden and cannot be managed/renamed/...
So basically all you can do is set up the BMC for DHCP and use good old expect(1) or similar automation tools.
rustic phoenix
Yup, it is primarily the issues we have with expect and uncontrollable differences between the BMC versions and responses.
lyric wren
Open a support case and ask about swordfish (the storage version of redfish (the RestAPI interface standard for OOB management)). Not because it’s there, but because engineering needs to know that real customers are looking for it.