During an Insight Pavilion Theater presentation, Ezra Tingler, IT Senior Storage Engineer, provided an explanation of using ONTAP APIs, like the NetApp Manageability (NM) Software Development Kit (SDK), to do more than configuration tasks. NetApp IT automates storage administration by writing scripts that are kicked off by monitoring tools to resolve issues without bothering Level 1 and 2 support. Using NM SDK, NetApp IT can install and configure 24 nodes in two hours, enforce 100% consistent configurations across the ONTAP environment, and address aggregate nearly full alerts and volume auto-size issues within minutes.

1. Using NetApp Manageability
SDK to do more than
configuration tasks
Ezra Tingler
IT Senior Storage Engineer

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Ezra Tingler
Senior Storage Engineer
NetApp
linkedin.com/in/ezratingler/
Ezra Tingler is a Senior Storage Engineer in NetApp’s corporate IT team. In
this role, he is a member of Customer-1, which acts as the first adopter of
NetApp’s products and services. Since 2011, he has been the lead for both
the storage ecosystem services and storage capacity and performance
service lines. Ezra is responsible for the automation and management of IT
storage capacity, efficiency, and performance. This includes overseeing its
architecture, procurement, deployment, standards development, and
maintenance.
Ezra has more than 22 years of IT experience and resides in the Raleigh,
NC, area with his family.

3. NMSDK Overview
 Provides infrastructure to develop applications to monitor and
manage NetApp® storage system.
 Bundle of open interfaces (APIs) to enable easy development
of interoperable management solution.
 Enables integration with third party management tool,
orchestration tool, or home-grown tool in a customer
environment.
 Download: https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-
bin/software/?product=NetApp+Manageability+SDK&platform=
All+Platforms
NetApp Manageability Software Development Kit (NMSDK)
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4. ZExplore Development Interface (ZEDI)
 ZEDI is a GUI tool that is bundled with NMSDK. It allows
you to connect to Data ONTAP servers or OCUM and
test APIs on them.
 ZEDI lists APIs and generates code automatically for the
APIs chosen hence reducing developer burden.
 ZEDI can be used to make/save new workflows and use
pre-existing workflows to perform a series of commonly
done tasks easily.
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ZExplore Development Interface (ZEDI)

6. Example: Auto balancing of like aggregates
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START
Pull information
from OCUM
Reporting
Database
Perform volume
move
End
Resolve
violations
YES
NO
Configuration
violations
found?
Aggregate
still over 70%
utilization?
Any
aggregates
with over 70%
utilization?
NO
YES
YES NO

7. Results of automating storage administration tasks
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BEFORE
Volume configuration issues
or conflicted with our standards
 30% in development
 20% in production
Aggregate capacity incident
(opened at >70% level)
 15 incidents per month (avg.)
 6.25 days to resolve (avg.)
Potential new CapEx investment
• Automate volume
moves
• Automate cluster
configuration
• Automate configuration
management
• Enforce standards
AFTER
Scripts automatically resolved
common conflicts
Resolution of aggregate capacity
incidents
 Resolved in minutes, not days
Thin provisioning
 Resolved in minutes not days
 5PB of immediate space savings
Able to control capacity growth

8.  How to use NetApp Manageability SDK to automate storage tasks to save time
and reduce error
 Write scripts to automate storage administration—no coding experience
required!
 Learn where to find automation scripts and general code examples in the SDK
Discussion Forum: http://developer.netapp.com
 Support available through NetApp
 SDK customers and end customers of partner products can contact support to
log issues related to SDK
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