Ansible module for PowerMax
In the previous article I explained that the configuration management ecosystem and the automation in general is too crowded and dynamic and it is easy to make the wrong decision that can be costly in the long term. In my opinion, one tool is emerging as the winner above the rest, and that tool is Ansible. It is no surprise that more and more modules are being released to manage other aspects of the IT infrastructure including on-prem hardware. One example of that is PowerMax/VMAX which got its first release in June 2019. This first version covers all the basics of storage provisioning including snapshots https://github.com/dell/ansible-powermax It leverages the popular PyU4V python library which wraps the REST API that lives in Unisphere. The library provides way more functionality than that, so it wouldn’t surprise anyone to see more versions in the near future that provide more functionality. The “Product Guide” document in the “docs” folder of the DellEMC repo provides inst