InfoScale Ansible Examples

This repository contains examples of playbooks to accompany my Veritas VOX blog post on deploying InfoScale with Ansible. You can find that blog post here:

Howto

The playbooks are divided into two parts. The first part, vmware_ansible contains playbooks showing how I prepared the virtual machines in my lab for InfoScale installation.

The second part, infoscale_ansible contains playbooks showing how I installed InfoScale and configured a Clustered File System.

vmware_ansible Playbook

This is an example playbook I use for cloning and deploying VMware Virtual Machines.

Notes

The playbook is organized to make it easier to manage tasks. Look in the roles/vmware/tasks directory to find the operations I use in this example.

The file group_vars/vars should be encrypted as it will require your vsphere credentials. See these instructions: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/ansible-vault.html

Usage

ansible-playbook site.yml --ask-vault-pass

infoScale_ansible Playbook

This is an example InfoScale Ansible Playbook.

Notes

This playbook is divided into two parts. The first, roles/common performs the instaallation of pre-requisites required for InfoScale. The second, roles/infoscale contains InfoScale related tasks such as installing InfoScale software, configuring InfoScale, etc.

For more information and official documentation, please see the following web page: https://sort.veritas.com/utility/ansible

Usage

Installing Pre-requisites

ansible-playbook pre_infoscale.yml

This playbook performs the following tasks:

• Configure local RHEL repos
• Update the OS. At the time of the writing of this playbook, the dnf module didn't support the --nobest flag, thus the command modules was used.
• Install python2
• Install the netaddr python2 module
• Add the /opt/VRTS/bin to the path.
• Set the default kernel to 147.
• Add host entries for all the InfoScale nodes in the primary and secondary clusters.

Installing InfoScale

ansible-playbook infoscale_install.yml

Configuring InfoScale

ansible-playbook infoscale_configure.yml

Create Disk Groups and Volumes

ansible-playbook infoscale_dg_create.yml

Create Cluster File System

ansible-playbook infoscale_cfs_create.yml

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