yetiwilson / ansible-dellemc-unity

This project provides Ansible playbooks than configure and manage Dell/EMC Unity systems.

EMC Unity Configuration and Management

• Requires Ansible 2.2 or newer
• Supports running from OSX/RHEL (and derivatives)/Ubuntu (and derivatives)

These playbooks configures and manages EMC Unity storage appliance. To use them, first connect the Unity system's management interface to a network with DHCP service, and note the assigned IP address of Unity's management interface. Then, edit the group_vars/all file to set any Unity configuration parameters you need, including the Unity management interface IP.

To run the playbook:

the hosts file should only have localhost
ansible-playbook -i hosts -c local site.yml -K 

When the playbook run completes, you should be able to see the Unity system running with the configuration parameters that you set.

Currently, the playbook only handles the following configurations:

• Accept Unity EULA
• Update default admin user password
• Licensing
• Update DNS server list
• Update NTP server list

If the Unity system time is more than 1000 seconds different from the NTP servers, a restart of the Unity system is going to be initiated. The system will be offline for a while and then become available again.

This is a very simple playbook and could serve as a starting point for more complex Unity management tasks.

The following configurations are to be added to the playbook soon:

• Pool Creation
  • Protection Scheme
  • Select Drives for pool
  • Set compression/dedupe settings
• Alternative Admin Account
• Alternative Admin Password
• ESRS Setup
• Logging settings
• Others as needed to finish initial configuration

The following configuration tasks are to be added to the playbook at a later stage:

• Configure host registration
• Configure luns and add to storage groups
• Configuring correct path options
• Check current configuration against configuration best practices
• Host type settings
• Others as needed