The ever-expanding demands of data storage in today's information-intensive landscape place a significant burden on IT professionals tasked with managing storage infrastructure. Manual processes for provisioning resources, troubleshooting issues, and performing routine maintenance tasks can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, hindering overall efficiency.

This IBM Redpaper equips you with the knowledge and skills to automate essential IBM Storage FlashSystem and IBM SAN Volume Controller tasks through the implementation of REST APIs, scripting languages, and Ansible. Practical examples are provided to illustrate the concepts and guide your learning process.

The target audience of this book is IBM Storage FlashSystem administrators and Storage Automation Professionals.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. User management and security

Chapter 3. Automation with CLI scripting

Chapter 4. Automation with REST API

Chapter 5. Automation with Red Hat Ansible