NetApp Ontap Mediator Installation and Configuration

Hello everyone, Today I will be talking a bit about how to install and configure the Ontap Mediator application that is used as an alternate way to validate the health status of a cluster collection. To set up the role of this application I will use as reference the NetApp portal documentation: ONTAP Mediator provides an alternate health path to the peer cluster, with the intercluster LIFs providing the other health path. With the Mediator’s health information, clusters can differentiate between intercluster LIF failure and site failure. When the site goes down, Mediator passes on the health information to the peer cluster on demand, facilitating the peer cluster to fail over. With the Mediator-provided information and the intercluster LIF health check information, ONTAP determines whether to perform an auto failover, if it is failover incapable, continue or stop. ...

July 11, 2021 · 10 min · Jon Colon

Installing Minio on Centos Linux 8

The Problem In the last few months I have been studying for the VEEAM VMCE Arquitect certification and one of the requirements is to implement the Scale Out Backup Repository option. A simple way to achieve this is by using the Minio service. About Minio Minio is an open source object storage service compatible with the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. Applications that have been configured to communicate with Amazon S3 can also be configured to communicate with Minio, allowing Minio to be a viable alternative to S3. ...

May 14, 2021 · 2 min · Jonathan Colon Feliciano