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How many times in your career have you tested something that totally blew you away? Your mind racing with use cases both past and present. The first VM you created? Check. Your first vMotion? Check. Your first storage vMotion? Check. But what next? I just found one to add to my list and its SQL Server Live Mounts in Rubrik Alta (4.0). So what exactly is it and why is it so amazing? Glad you asked, read on!
Having your own home lab is one of the best tools you can have to progress your knowledge and career in IT. But, having lots of VMs and hardware can equal a decent load on your home internet connection. This gets even worse when you start using replication and archiving technologies. So how can you stop your home lab from saturating your internet connection, interrupting the family movie night (yes this happened to me), and the plethora of streaming services used in a modern household?
Following hot on the heels of my first post on an “Introduction to Rubrik REST APIs using PowerShell & Swagger” I’d now like to show you how to easily automate the recovery and boot ordering of VMs as a Recovery Plan.
In the Rubrik HTML5 interface, you can easily recover any VM in just a few clicks with the VMs running on a whopping 30,000 IOPS per brik (Rubrik appliance) giving you a sub 1 minute RTO. However, at scale, clicking on each VM to recover can become tedious, hard to manage and it will always require human interaction. This is where using PowerShell to interact with REST APIs is going to make your life easier by automating the entire process for anything from 1 to 10,000+ VMs. Use cases include: Read more of this post
One thing I’ve always been passionate about is writing scripts that are easy to read and consume. By showing you how to directly interact with REST APIs this enables you to do anything, and not be limited to the PowerShell functions provided by the vendor.
When it comes to working with REST APIs and PowerShell this starts to pay dividends when you want to take all the knowledge you’ve learned from working with 1 platform then use the same skills to connect and leverage another.
My first example of porting skills between platforms follows my recent journey of switching from working for Zerto to Rubrik. In this post I will give you all the information needed to connect and leverage Rubrik REST APIs using PowerShell.
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