Dell PowerMax: Ansible Modules Best Practices

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  Overview
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  Audience
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  Revisions
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  We value your feedback

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  Introduction
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  Requirements for Using Ansible with PowerMax Storage
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  Obtaining official Dell content for Ansible
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  Setting up and Installing Ansible and Collections for PowerMax
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  Upgrading Your Ansible Environment
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  Ansible Galaxy
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  YAML – Yet Another Markup Language
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  Idempotency and Ansible

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  Getting started with playbooks
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  Getting Started with Ansible Modules
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  Writing a playbook to provision PowerMax Storage
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  Creating Hosts and Host Groups
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  Creating Port Groups
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  Creating Storage Groups
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  Creating cascaded storage groups
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  Creating a masking view
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  Running a playbook

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  Introduction
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  Adding volumes
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  Increasing the size of an existing volume

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  Introduction
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  Using verbose options to identify values for the registry
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  Using the debug task to print to the terminal
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  Parsing JSON Output

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  Enforcing Naming Standards on Storage Objects

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  Using Ansible Vault

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  SnapVX overview
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  Taking a snapshot with Ansible
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  Snapshot Policies

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  SRDF setup overview
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  Setting up two-site SRDF with Ansible
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  Adding volumes to SRDF configuration
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  Controlling SRDF states with Ansible

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  Introduction
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  Check Mode Support for PowerMax
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  Creating and Using Ansible Roles
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  Making REST API calls with the Ansible URI module

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  Creating Ansible execution environments using Ansible Builder

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  Working with Ansible Automation Controller/AWX

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  Introduction
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  Developing your own service catalog
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  Dell Professional Services

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  Log locations
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  Dell Community pages
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  Dell Customer Service
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  Ansible Forum Google Groups

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  Summary

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  Dell Technologies documentation
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  Red Hat Ansible documentation
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  Other Documentation