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Measuring Oracle Data Guard Fast-Start Failover RTO and RPO on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Measuring Oracle Data Guard Fast-Start Failover RTO and RPO on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes“Zero data loss” and “automatic failover” are common claims for Oracle Data Guard deployments. Those claims only hold weight when validated under real failure conditions, with evidence that would satisfy an Oracle DBA reviewing the…
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SnapMirror Active Sync + ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere Granular Datastore Protection (OTV10.6)
Co-Author: @ChanceBingen Active-Active VM Storage at Datastore Granularity: SnapMirror Active Sync meets ONTAP tools Granular Datastore Protection The two things to remember Active-active with synchronous SnapMirror (SnapMirror active sync / SM-as) — ONTAP TOOLSONTAP tools Granular Datastore Protection (GDP) lets you…
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From hours to minutes: Trident 26.06 controller concurrency at 1000 volume scale
We first introduced the Trident concurrent core as a tech preview feature in Trident release 25.06. With traditional Trident, all operations in the k8s cluster were effectively serialized with a global lock. With concurrent core enabled, Trident can safely perform many provisioning operations concurrently, drastically…
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Independent Storage Scaling with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes NFS Datastores for Google Cloud VMware Engine
Overview Google Cloud VMware Engine gives you a familiar vSphere environment in Google Cloud. As VM estates grow, storage often becomes the bottleneck — and the cost driver. Adding ESXi nodes just to get more datastore capacity is rarely the most efficient answer. With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Unified, you can…
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Supercharge team collaboration with FlexPod Datacenter for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Supercharge team collaboration with FlexPod Datacenter for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops A validated VDI architecture for scalable, high-performance Citrix workloads Modern datacenters face many challenges including how to deliver a consistent end-user experience across applications, devices, and locations. Many…
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Becoming a Frontier Enterprise: Why AI Success Starts with Your File Data
Enterprises today are striving to become Frontier organizations. They want to move beyond AI experimentation and begin embedding AI into the way they operate, make decisions, and serve customers. But there is a common misconception that AI success is primarily about models or compute infrastructure. In reality, the biggest…
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Zero RPO, Zero RTO for NAS: SnapMirror active sync Comes to File Workloads
Zero-RPO and Zero-RTO for NAS For years, zero recovery point objective (RPO) for NAS workloads has been achieved through synchronous replication, but achieving zero recovery time objective (RTO) has been a major bottleneck to achieving business continuity. Although synchronous copies of data were available, accessing those…
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Move iSCSI Volumes Live with Trident 26.06: A Hands-on Guide
Move iSCSI Volumes Live with Trident 26.06: A Hands-on Guide to Volume MoveOverview Kubernetes environments change constantly: aggregates fill, nodes need maintenance, and performance hot spots appear. With Trident 26.06, you can now move an iSCSI-backed volume non-disruptively to a different ONTAP node and aggregate…
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Connecting file data with AWS AI and analytics services: A governance-first approach
Enterprise organizations have been storing enterprise file‑based data for decades. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a range of AI and analytics services that unlock new ways to extract insights, automate decisions, and build differentiated applications. There is value in making on-premises file data available to…
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Enhanced Virtual Machine Protection with NetApp Trident Protect
NetApp Trident Protect enables you to back up and restore KubeVirt virtual machines (VMs) running on OpenShift Virtualization or KubeVirt. You can protect all VMs across one or more namespaces at once or use the newly introduced includedVirtualMachines field to target specific VMs by name. Trident Protect automatically…
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Why storage assessment is critical when planning your migration to the AWS Cloud
Cloud migration has become a strategic priority for organizations seeking greater agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. However, while early planning discussions often focus on applications and compute resources, storage decisions are often deferred or simplified, even though they have a critical impact on…
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Move Faster and Get Back to Business: Rapid Multi-VM Migration Using NetApp Shift Toolkit and Red Hat’s MTV
Modern virtualization strategies are evolving rapidly. As organizations embrace Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a strategic platform for running both their virtual machines (VMs) and containers, one challenge consistently rises to the top - how to migrate at scale without adding complexity, risk and extended business…
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Oracle & SQL Server Best Practices on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Practical configuration guidance for block storage (iSCSI/LUN) deployments on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) — storage, host, and database layers for both Oracle and SQL Server. Core Principles * Multipathing — GCNV presents each iSCSI volume over two target portal IPs. Connect and use both; this is a baseline…
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FLI with iSCSI
ONTAP 9.19.1 expands Foreign LUN Import (FLI) by adding iSCSI backend support, giving more SAN teams a built-in, no-cost, ONTAP-native path to move block workloads from qualified third-party and ONTAP source arrays to modern NetApp storage. Since the first introduction in ONTAP 8.3, FLI has simplified LUN migrations by…
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Fibre Channel Direct Attach With NetApp Storage: Simpler SAN For The Right Environments
Fibre Channel Direct Attach With NetApp Storage: Simpler SAN For The Right Environments SAN complexity is often treated as a fixed cost of block storage. Fibre Channel Direct Attach, available with NetApp’s ONTAP 9.19.1, gives customers a simpler option when they do not need the scale and policy model of a full FC fabric.…
