How To Deploy Kubernetes With NetApp Trident Persistent Storage

As folks adopt DevOps principals they are using common applications to help them get there. One of those is Docker and usually in the same sentence Kubernetes is mentioned next. To review, Docker is essentially a wrapper for Linux containers (LXC), which similar to FreeBSD jails or Solaris Zones, provides a method for applications (and …

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How To Setup NetApp Harvest Using Docker

2017-07-13: Updated for version 1.3 of my container image which includes some updated dashboards 2017-05-21: Updated for version 1.2 of my container image which includes NetApp SDK 5.7 2016-11-15: Updated for version 1.1 of my container image which includes Grafana 3.1 and NetApp Harvest 1.3 2018-03-18: Updated for version 1.4.1 of my container image which …

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How To Setup Graphite To Visualize OnCommand Performance Manager Data

As you may well know OnCommand Performance Manager 1.1RC1 was recently released which added the ability to send data to an external system such as Graphite. I have created the following tutorial which explains how to setup a CentOS server and install the Graphite application on it. If you run into any issues with the tutorial …

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How To Restore From A LVM-based RHEL6 VMDK

As a customer I ran into a few scenarios where I needed to restore directories or files from a restored LVM-based RHEL 6 VMDK. You cannot simply attach the restored VMDK, mount the filesystem, and copy the directories or files due to the way LVM utilizes UUIDs for logical volumes. In order to restore directories …

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