scaleoutSean's demos and how-to's

An quick introduction to and demo of NetApp BeeGFS CSI for ThinkParQ BeeGFS filesystem: easily provision statica and dynamic PVs to CSI workloads that can access them on a parallel filesystem at a high speed (InfiniBand, for example). More at: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/04/09/beegfs-csi-introduction.html

PowerShell script that generates overall capacity and efficiency report in text and HTML format, with additional volume and account details (HTML-only). There are 2 options to omit volume and account names if you need to share report details externally: - Overall: set the script switch to omit all names (in which case Accounts and Volumes are identified by a numeric ID) and HTML report should contain no Account or Volume Names - Accounts & Volumes tab: toggle Account or Volume Name column and export charts as PDF, PNG, TXT... (I misspoke at the very end of the video when I said these tables can be exported in the HTML format) Blog: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/30/solidfire-capacity-report-html5.html

Kestra looks promising and this video shows simple examples of how data-heavy workflows can be built with it. The first example is a single task flow that uses SolidFire API (that could be developed into a full blown flow) and the second uses my SGAC script to convert StorageGRID log into JSON and upload to Elasticsearch. Additional details: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/22/solidfire-storagegrid-data-workflows-kestra.html

This is a more detailed walk-through demo of Nomad with SolidFire: - Deploy Nomad service job to SolidFire-backed Host Volume - Deploy Nomad service job to SolidFire-backed Dynamic Volume (Docker) - Backup, snapshot, restore of Host and Dynamic volumes with SolidFire - video contains about 20 seconds long crash course on how SolidFire storage works Short demo (80 seconds) that shows only dynamic provisioning: https://rumble.com/vych5f-hashicorp-nomad-with-dynamically-provisioned-solidfire-iscsi.html Details: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/23/nomad-solidfire-hostpath-volumes.html

Video shows HashiCorp Nomad-scheduled service job that deploys Apache to Nomad client backed by NetApp SolidFire iSCSI storage. iSCSI volume is created on the fly with Trident Docker Volume Plugin. Another, longer video shows both this approach as well as the manual "host volume" approach which uses iSCSI volumes manually provisioned and mounted on Nomad client. Details: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/23/nomad-solidfire-hostpath-volumes.html

tldr; it ships with outdated SRPMS. You need to build them from source and then it works, with some quirks https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/11/vmware-photon-iscsi-solidfire.html

This is a very simple test of a SELECT query with Goofys and S3FS (related to another article on "native" S3 Select for CSV). Details: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/10/s3-select-vs-remote-csv-over-fuse.html

Short demo of Elasticsearch Helm chart deployed on NetApp SolidFire using Trident CSI (physical Ubuntu 20.04 ARM64 nodes) and Cinder CSI (Debian 10 x86_64 VM on Openstack Yoga) Details: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/06/elastic-elk-stack-on-netapp.html

Short video demo of Elasticsearch 8 with Trident Docker volume plugin. Details: https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/06/elastic-elk-stack-on-netapp.html

I create a list of all possible valid configurations for SolidFire clusters, upload it to a StorageGRID bucket and then use a toy sizing script to get results in less than 2 seconds. Beats clicking around the sizer for 10 minutes! More on S3 Select with StorageGRID

Quick demo of S3 Select in NetApp StorageGRID 11.6

This part (Part 2) shows Cinder CSI and SolidFire Cinder driver integration and use (create Storage Class, PVC, PV, snapshot, delete). Additional details and notes are available in blog post for Part 2 (see below). Part 1 - getting started - https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/02/22/openstack-solidfire.html Video: https://rumble.com/vw4zdc-using-openstack-xena-with-cinder-and-solidfire-12.3.html Part 2 - Kubernetes and Cinder CSI with SolidFire Cinder - https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/03/02/openstack-solidfire-part-2.html

Video walk-through of using Openstack Xena with SolidFire 12.3 that walks through configuring and using Cinder driver to create volume types, QoS, volumes, snapshots, clones. https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2022/02/22/openstack-solidfire.html

Demo of binary replication of SolidFire volumes to Digital Ocean volumes over SSH. This free and simple approach [1] can be automated and used for scheduled DR/BC of small environments to (or from) the cloud. [1] https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2021/11/30/digital-ocean-volume-to-solidfire-volume-and-back.html

In this short video we create a test SolidFire volume, back it up to Wasabi S3, delete it, and then successfully restore it from that backup on Wasabi. If you're interested in automating SolidFire backup or restore to/from S3, this post has the details. https://scaleoutsean.github.io/2021/04/21/solidfire-backup-to-s3.html