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Chef-client on Arista?

May 5, 2017 opsadmin 0

I created this page as I was constantly on the hunt as to how to load chef on Arista switches. I cant say I was super happy with the Arista / chef integration, I actually […]

Automation

Short cuts for doing chef automation in my LAB #chef server install yum install wget wget https://packages.chef.io/stable/el/7/chef-server-core-12.6.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh chef-server-core-12.6.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm chef-server-ctl reconfigure chef-server-ctl user-create admin andy parsons aparsons@purestorage.com password –filename admin chef-server-ctl user-create andyp andy […]

Networking

High Performance Networking with Flashblade and VMware

December 2, 2019 0

This has been a journey of epic proportions so to speak. It has been over the course of at least a year and a half of testing. Here at pure storage we have an appliance […]

Networking

Automate your Network Infrastructure with Ansible, and ZTP.

May 7, 2018 0

In my production environment I was faced with the challenge of how can i scale quickly and efficiently from 20 racks to 100 racks on a skeleton crew with out having to manually build everything. […]

Networking

Flashblade / MLAG configuration

June 20, 2017 0

I have built so many of these that I decided to document the buggy little network things so I can reproduce the same build over and over. I have been building on 10/40g Arista switches […]