Ansible delivers a powerful, yet simple automation engine that ends manual, time-consuming repetitive tasks and frees up IT teams for more strategic work. Dell EMC is developing a collection of storage modules to automate storage administration, provisioning, and consumption for a growing list of storage platforms. These modules enable the operations teams to rapidly provision storage infrastructure with accuracy to respond to the fast-paced needs of application developers.
PowerMax/VMAX Ansible Plugin > Watch Demo >
Puppet is one of the popular DevOps automation tools to manage the state of infrastructure. Users can use sequential task execution as well as use declarative infrastructure state control. Puppet plans specify the series of tasks that need to be executed. The plans can be defined as YAML files or in Puppet programming language. The Puppet modules below can be used both in Bolt as well as Puppet Enterprise. Puppet Forge is a rapidly growing repository of third-party modules written for Puppet execution. Following are the links to the modules available on Puppet Forge repository:
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) is an IT process automation tool that allows automated management and operational tasks across both VMware and third-party applications. Dell EMC Storage Workflows for vRO augment the capabilities of VMware’s vRealize Orchestrator solution by providing access to storage array-specific management workflows, such as storage administration, provisioning and consumption.
PowerMax vRO Plugin > Watch Demo >
Dell EMC Unity XT vRO Plugin >
Container technologies tremendously increase speed, efficiency and portability of application deployment. However, stateful applications require persistent storage which has a lifecycle that is independent of the pod that uses it. Container Storage Interface is a standardized API for container orchestration platforms (COs) to talk to storage plugins for persistent storage. Dell EMC is building CSI plugins for a growing list of storage platforms to enable new and legacy applications to be deployed in a containerized environment.
PowerMax CSI Plugin > Watch Demo >
PowerShell by Microsoft is a cross-platform automation platform that is rapidly gaining in popularity. PowerShell offers functionality that is lot more than typical sell scripting environment. The .NET object support with easy to discover functionality makes it much more powerful in building automation and configuration management that connects applications and infrastructure across applications, databases and operating systems. PowerShell Gallery has thousands of third-party contributed packages and is a must-have in any IT environment.
PowerShell module for PowerMax >
PowerShell module for PowerStore >
PowerShell module for PowerFlex (Community maintained) >
PowerShell module for PowerStore (Community maintained) >
Explore APIs/SDKs to support programmatic monitoring and control of the Dell EMC storage array by mechanisms ranging from scripting languages to automation products.
PowerMax Python Library (Community maintained) >
Dell EMC Unity Unisphere APIs >
PowerScale Python SDK (Community maintained) >
Dell EMC storage array products provide the integrations and interfaces to let you deploy and control your storage the way you want – from basic scripting for simple operation through deep integration with automation frameworks to help you on the journey to Infrastructure as Code.
