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In this demo, we will cover how to use Intersight to use predefined workflows and create customized workflows to save time and automate administrative tasks. Before we get started, let's take a look at our data stores. Navigate to operate solutions and select a flex pod. Click on the inventory object. virtualizationthen data stores. Here we will demonstrate how to update an NFS data stores capacity. To do so, go to configure orchestration sample workflows. Select the update NAS data store option. Click the three dots on the right hand side and select execute. Choose your organization name and type a name for the workflow instance. Click the hypervisor manager link and select the respective vsenter server. Click the data center link and then select the respective data center. Repeat these steps for the cluster, host, data store and storage device objects. Type in the new capacity and select the unit of measurement in this case teabyte. Click on the execute button which will kick off the expansion job. After a few moments, the job should show as complete. Let's check to see how VMware is reporting the capacity through our single pane of management provided by Interite.Navigate to operate solutions. Select the flex pod in question and check out inventory. The virtualization object gives us a clear look at what vsenter is reporting under data stores. The new capacity is present. In the next example, we will demonstrate how to create a customized workflow that creates a new volume named intersight test volume. Here we can see the volume does not currently exist. To create a customized workflow, navigate to configure orchestration and click the create workflow button. Type a name for the new workflow and save it. Go to the designer object to see the various actions that can be taken. In this example, we will be creating a new storage volume. The new storage volume object shows up in the designer. Connect the start success and failed objects to this new object. Once complete, select the new storage volume object so that we can start mapping inputs. First, choose the map link on the storage device and select the array you wish to carry the action out on. Next, select map on the storage virtual machine and select the corresponding SVM. Next, select map on storage vendor aggregate. In this example, we will use the first aggregate for the array we chose previously. Next, select map on storage vendor volume options. Type the name of the volume. Select NFS and then type the mount path. Finally, select map on volume capacity and enter a value for the capacity of the new volume. Be sure to save your work. Once all inputs have been mapped, we can execute the workflow. While the task is running, we can take a look at the details for the inputs that we put in previously. After a few moments, the workflow will complete. We can see both from the logs and the outputs that the test completed successfully. We can then check the inventory of our storage array to verify that the volume was created. I hope you enjoyed this tech demo. Thank you for watching.
Cisco Intersight Cloud Orchestrator empowers automation at various levels. Learn about the low/no-code capabilities of automating common storage tasks through the pre-defined library, as well as creating a customized workflow.