Veritas InfoScale™ Installation, Upgrade, and Configuration Using Ansible - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0.2, 8.0, 7.4.3, 7.4.2, 7.4.1)
Platform: Linux

Introduction to Ansible

Ansible is a popular configuration management tool that automates various configuration and deployment operations in your environment. Ansible playbooks are files written in the YAML format, which contain human-readable code. Ansible playbooks can be used to define operations in your environment.

Veritas now provides an Ansible module that can be used to run Ansible playbooks to deploy Veritas InfoScale products and configure features. The Ansible module for Linux is SonarQube compliant.

Table: Operations that can be performed by using Ansible

Deployment-related operations

Feature-related operations

  • Installation

  • Licensing

  • Component configuration

  • Starting a product

  • Stopping a product

  • Full upgrade

  • Rolling upgrade

  • Uninstallation

  • Configuring a Cluster File System (CFS) resource

  • Creating a disk group volume

  • Configuring an File System (FS) resource

  • Configuring VVR and CVR

  • Configuring LLT over UDP

  • Configuring I/O Fencing

  • Adding node

  • Deleting node

  • Creating a single-node cluster

  • Disk Tagging

  • Tagging based volume creation

  • Enable/Disable EO Logging

  • Setting tunables

  • Setting Routes and Rules for subnets across AZ on AWS

  • Add/Remove disks in diskgroup

  • Change Replication State

  • Unconfigure Replication

Supported platforms

You can use Ansible to deploy and configure Veritas InfoScale on all RHEL distributions supported by InfoScale.

Also, you can use Ansible to deploy and configure Veritas InfoScale 7.4.2, 8.0, and 8.0.2 on SLES15 SP3 / SP4 platform with limited playbooks [install, configuration, patch upgrade, full upgrade, rolling upgrade, start services, and stop services].

Supported cloud platforms

The InfoScale Ansible module supports Azure and AWS cloud platforms. You can perform Veritas InfoScale product deployments and configuration operations using playbooks. Following is the list of playbooks supported on the cloud platform for AWS and Azure.

Table: Cloud Azure and AWS playbooks

Azure

AWS

  • Installation

  • Licensing

  • Component configuration

  • Starting a product

  • Stopping a product

  • Full upgrade

  • Rolling upgrade

  • Uninstallation

  • Configuring a Cluster File System resource

  • Configuring an File System resource

  • Resize a File System

  • Creating a disk group volume

  • Configuring GCO

  • Configuring VVR and CVR

  • Configuring CPS based fencing

  • Adding node

  • Deleting node

  • Installation

  • Licensing

  • Component configuration

  • Starting a product

  • Stopping a product

  • Full upgrade

  • Rolling upgrade

  • Uninstallation

  • Configuring a Cluster File System resource

  • Configuring an File System resource

  • Resize a File System

    Creating a disk group volume

  • Configuring CPS based fencing

  • Patch upgrade

  • Deleting node

  • Adding node

  • Configuring GCO

  • Configuring VVR and CVR

Supported Ansible version

Veritas InfoScale products can be deployed and configured using Ansible version 1.9.2 or later.