Lest people start thinking I’m an EMC weenie (no offense, guys), I want to point out some good info NetApp has been making public about their Dynamic Data Center stuff. There’s some really good detail buried in all the marketing guff. The Beginning You’ll want to start here. More specifically,… Read More
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve released a new version of NetAppZAPI, a Python library for managing NetApp Filers using the Zephyr API (their XML-RPC/SOAP style interface). Check it out at the Python Cheeseshop. I’ve added a script to upload files to the Filer, so you… Read More
VMworld is running at the moment, and there’s a bunch of new information coming out from various vendors. One of those vendors is NetApp, makers of storage hardware and software. I’ve had a bunch to do with NetApp in recent years. In fact, I’ve spent almost all of my time… Read More
NetApp provide a Linux version of their DFM/Operations Manager product, but they only support certain versions of Suse and RedHat distros. I run Ubuntu, but I figured could port the installation across. How hard could it be? Not too hard, as it turns out. Here’s how to do it. Getting… Read More
Using multiple redo log areas is something that many Oracle DBAs are used to doing. This post explains why you should stop doing it if you use NetApp storage for your Oracle database. What Would I Know? Once upon a time I was an Oracle DBA. I’d never done it… Read More
Just a quick note to let you know about something I worked on a bit this past weekend. I’ve been adding a bunch of test cases to ModiPy to make the code quality better, and to chase down some corner cases that were really annoying me. I’m pleased to say… Read More
I love Python. I find it really easy to use to write programs with. I’m also pretty into NetApp Filers lately. I spend a bunch of time helping enterprise customers with using them well. So, of course, I want to be able to administer them using Python. Second Class Citizens… Read More
NetAppZAPI is a Python library I wrote back in 2005 to allow me to administer NetApp filers using their more native ZAPI rather than the commandline. The current implementation of ZAPI is still missing some features, but all the ones that exist can be accessed with this library. Prerequisites You’ll… Read More
I’ve made some updates to SCM to assist with finding errors in the messages file. It’s easy to overlook them if you don’t have some sort of process for checking them, such as a central syslog server and some sort of syslog parsing program. Speaking of which, it would be… Read More
For a limited time, you’ll be able to audit NetApp filers with my SCM tool for free, using an email service I knocked together this weekend. I had the idea during the week, and it was surprisingly simple to get working. SCM really is pretty awesome. If you have NetApps,… Read More
