Emre Kurnaz's IT Diary

I have been using Isilon simulator for a long time to test some features and prepare myself to some projects. Knowing that this is a home environment, I am also performing patch installations when I have time. Lets first power on the Powerscale nodes on my Vmware Workstation. We will need to wait some time for all nodes to totally up and running. Lets check if we are able to login from the cli and run "isi status" to check the cluster status. Next, we will need to download the Rollup Patch from the Dell Technologies Support page. After downloading we will need to extract the file. You will see that the contents of the file similar to below; here we will need to upload the file with the pkg extension to the /ifs/data/Isilon_Support/ .  I am using FileZilla to perform the upload I can verify that the file is there. Here we are ready to Perform  the code upgrade. This part really important since we are here only performing the code upgrade, in a real work scenario, you will nee...

For a long time, I have been using a home lab environment for many things. The way, I am doing is that, cloning from my template virtual machines to provision new ones, and change settings manually. This is not rocket science, however I wanted to ease and automate one of my basic processes. Using Vmware Workstation Pro 16 in my environment, I noticed that there is a Rest Api provided within the software, and noticed that there is no option for creating a virtual machine from the scratch however, there is an option to clone a VM to another, which I was surprised to see but liked a lot. While further digging, I noticed that I can use Terraform to do such provisioning using Vmware Workstation provider , which I was thinking to use. I was super excited to use Terraform for the first time in my life, so I cloned a new Virtual Machine, set its IP Address, create the DNS records as I described in my blog article  etc. I checked Terraform deployment article, prepare the prerequisites and i...