This time I am going to talk about how to use HashiCorp packer to create a VM master image that can be used as a template to publish a Pool in VMware Horizon. Although there are many How-to’s on how to automatically create a template with packer, all the ones I have seen are oriented to Windows 10/11 and not for Linux. It is for this reason, that I gave myself the task of creating this post. ...
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. ...