Summary: <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> This week, Chris and Martin discuss the automation of storage. In a follow-on from the <a href="https://techfieldday.com/appearance/dell-emc-presents-devops-at-storage-field-day-19/">Dell EMC presentation</a> at Storage Field Day 19, this conversation looks at the challenges of opening storage provisioning and management to the wider developer community.<br> <br> <br> <br> In the past, SRM tools have focused on providing the “record of truth” for storage and well as the interface to provision resources to hosts. Dell EMC tried to create a separate data and management plane with ViPR, but the industry didn’t adopt this approach – potentially because Dell/EMC continued to own the technology.<br> <br> <br> <br> Today, Dell EMC is focusing on automation through tools like Ansible and Python. How will enterprises continue to reduce over-provisioning and protect production systems? How should billing work? What about documentation? These questions and more, answered in this week’s podcast.<br> <br> <br> <br> Elapsed Time: 00:31:17<br> <br> <br> <br> Timeline<br> <br> <br> <br> * 00:00:00 – Intros* 00:00:46 – Dell EMC & DevOps at TFD* 00:01:45 – The Storage Admin is a gatekeeper* 00:03:00 – SRM software has been universally terrible* 00:04:43 – Dell acquires iWave to create ViPR* 00:06:35 – Should we use wrappers or simply script?* 00:08:49 – Storage platforms must have multi-tenancy* 00:09:50 – How is storage billing achieved in the public cloud?* 00:11:00 – Shout out to DFHSM!* 00:13:02 – How efficient are storage system APIs?* 00:15:57 – How are RBAC and credentials managed?* 00:18:10 – What happens to documentation with automation?* 00:20:52 – Storage desired state and actual state* 00:23:27 – Which vendors are delivering best practice automation?* 00:24:09 – Do we simply need better (software-based) storage products? * 00:27:27 – Should Dell be doing ViPR or just simple automation? * 00:28:00 – Could standards’ bodies do more? * 00:30:50 – Wrap Up <br> <br> <br> <br> Related Podcasts & Blogs<br> <br> <br> <br> * <a href="https://www.architecting.it/blog/storage-management-devops/">Storage Management and DevOps</a>* <a href="https://storageunpacked.com/2019/11/129-persistent-container-storage-tolia/">#129 – Choices for Persistent Container Storage with Niraj Tolia</a>* <a href="https://www.architecting.it/blog/apis-storage-data-protection/">The Need for APIs in Storage and Data Protection</a>* <a href="https://techfieldday.com/appearance/dell-emc-presents-devops-at-storage-field-day-19/">Dell EMC Presents DevOps at Storage Field Day 19</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Copyright (c) 2016-2020 Storage Unpacked. No reproduction or re-use without permission. Podcast episode #LTVN.<br>
