Automate Storage Administration Using ONTAP REST API and Ansible

Module 1: ONTAP REST API

• What is REST API?
• ONTAP REST API documentation
• Python client library

Module 2: REST API Use Cases: Python Programming

• Create an aggregate, a storage VM, and a volume
• Volume management
• Create a Snapshot copy

Module 3: Windows PowerShell for REST API

• Introduction to NetApp PowerShell Toolkit
• Use case scenario of REST API methods

Module 4: Automation Using Ansible

• Introduction to Ansible
• Basics of YAML and YML
• Basics of Ansible
• Installing Ansible
• Ansible Playbooks
• Ansible Modules
• Coding Demonstration of Simple Playbooks

Module 5: CIFS Configuration

• CIFS configuration by a Python program
• CIFS configuration by an Ansible playbook

Module 6: NFS Configuration

• NFS configuration by a Python program
• NFS configuration by an Ansible playbook

Module 7: SAN Configuration

• SAN REST API documents
• iSCSI configuration
• FCP and NVMe-oF configuration
• Ansible modules and playbooks

Module 8: Performance Monitoring

• ONTAP performance
• Performance Metrics
• Collecting ONTAP Metrics

• Python programming experience required
• Familiarity with Unix commands

This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:

• Describe ONTAP REST APIs and the Ansible framework
• Implement REST API methods in your Python programs to create, access, update, and delete ONTAP resources such as aggregates, storage VMs, volumes, and so on
• Illustrate how to invoke ONTAP REST API methods from within the PowerShell environment
• Illustrate the Ansible framework to call NetApp ONTAP modules from within a playbook for automation of storage administration
• Configure CIFS, NFS, and SAN protocols programmatically by using Python programs and Ansible playbooks
• Describe performance monitoring of an ONTAP based system