Currently our IBM Fusion-HCI platform is a large focus in our storage sales teams efforts. It brings the wows and eye awaking moment to actually see a VM running in an OpenShift cluster, and to actually be able to demonstrate a migration from VMWare vCenter of a working VM to now being hosted on OSV and able to be used exactly as it was prior to migration is that WOW we all want.
Yet the next step is the how to enable the networking, and the changes to the VM to make that above wow a reality for the VMWare admin.
I have searched till I'm blue in the face with BLOGs from Red Hat and the internet, and have used our Fusion documentation as it relates to IBM Cloud Satellite, and have NNCP, NAD enabled and can manually alter a VM once migrated from a live vCenter managed vSphere cluster to OCP running on Fusion-HCI. I can even manually add the NAD definition to the OCP Namespace/Project to make that reality of the VM still being supported with the old IP address.
Yet the goal I have been on, is how to configure the NNCP, NAD and VM configuration changes via Ansible Playbooks of the configuration, when your migrating not one VM, or 3 VMs in a vCenter folder to 10, 100, etc.
That is my goal, and my hope via this BLOG post we can obtain. I believe this would be an ESSENTIAL aid to our IBM and BP technical sellers.
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Lloyd Dean
Principal Storage Technical Specialist
IBM Advanced Technology Group
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