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Postman collections for DellEMC block storage

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Today I will be discussing the details and artefacts of Project Vision. This new Avengers' project leverages Postman's import collection capabilities to provide sample API calls. For more details about the IaC Avengers initiative you can read this other article: http://anzpiper.blogspot.com/2019/12/confiure-vxflex-scaleio-api-with-python.html This first release Project Vision provides API examples for the following products: PowerMax XtremIO Unity PowerFlex/VxFlex (formerly ScaleIO) PowerStore - Added in June 2020 PowerOne - Added in June 2020 VPLEX - Added in June 2020 - Courtesy of Ankur Patel The goal of the project is to help customers of these products to automate day 1 and day 2 operations by looking at handy examples. API reference guides can sometimes be many hundred pages long and take considerable effort to understand. So by looking at some of the most common operational examples one can kickstart coding efforts. Each collection has been built to pro

Configure VxFlex / ScaleIO API with Python

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Today I wanted to share with you my contribution to a project I have been working on within the IaC Avengers team. By the way, the Avengers team is an initiative that we have created internally at DellEMC in APJ to create materials and workshops to help customers of our traditional block storage products to fast-track their automation journey. Internal IT teams are under pressure to transform the way their enterprise infrastructure is delivered to the business to match the agility and self service capabilities that their internal customers experience in public cloud. The mission of the IaC Avengers team is to help customers in that journey The project I am referring to today was dubbed "Project Rocket", like the Racoon in the Avengers movies ... indeed, by choosing Avengers as the team name, we get access to almost unlimited cool project names, specially after the "Endgame" movie! Project Rocket was a prototype that set dynamic per VM IO limits in VxFlex (forme