Learn to automate NetApp ONTAP using Ansible. This lab provides an overview of GIT and Ansible to understand how they work together to simplify the automation of NetApp storage solutions.

*** This is a read-only lab that gives you view permissions on a lab array. If you'd like to have full access to a FlashArray, check out one of our other Pure Storage labs (ActiveCluster, ActiveDR, FA Files, Remote Client/vVols) as those labs give you full access to make changes. *** The FlashArray //X Series is the Pure Storage primary all flash, NVMe offering. This lab is intended to give users experience with the Purity operating system via both HTML 5 Web Interface and the Purity CLI on real hardware in the WWT ATC.

In this lab you will walk through the simple configuration to setup and configure FA Files on a FlashArray along with setting up replication to a second FlashArray.

If you are familiar with Ansible and want to learn how to use Ansible with the Pure Storage FlashArray, continue on with this lab that demonstrates how to simplify automation of a Pure Storage FlashArray. *** If you are a Storage admin, new to automation, and want to learn how to automate your Pure Storage environment using Ansible, check out this lab instead that teaches the basics of Ansible from a storage admin point of view.- "Ansible Automation Workshop - Pure Ansible Lab" (https://www.wwt.com/lab/ansible-automation-workshop-pure-ansible-lab)

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is a powerful, cost-effective, and easy-to-use data management solution for your cloud workloads. The familiar and reliable Cloud Volumes ONTAP data management software with its data protection and storage efficiency features is available in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Pure Storage FlashArray //C lets you consolidate workloads and simplify storage with consistent all-flash performance at a lower TCO over hybrid storage. This lab consists of Pure's capacity-optimized array offering - FlashArray //C60 running Purity 6.x with File Services enabled.

The Pure Storage FlashBlade family is an elastic scale out file and object, all flash storage solution that gives customers an advanced data-hub approach to managing their data. WWT has partnered with Pure Storage to provide this lab giving access to the Purity//FB operating environment on FlashBlade//S and FlashBlade//E Hardware in the Advanced Technology Center. This lab showcases Pure's RapidFile Toolkit that supercharges common Linux operating system commands running against NFS File Shares on the FlashBlade.

NetApp BlueXP Tiering service extends your on-premises ONTAP clusters to the cloud by combining their SSD storage with a low-cost object storage of your choice to one pool. Without compromising on manageability and performance, BlueXP Tiering efficiently manages your storage pool by seamlessly placing your data at the right tier at the right time, based on its usage.