An application owner pings Anna on Teams: "We need 500 GB for a new service, today, if possible." She knows the drill. She opens NetApp® ONTAP® System Manager on the target cluster to check aggregates, Active IQ Unified Manager to see whether anything is already alerting on that system, and NetApp Digital Advisor® to…
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Unified is now a first-class citizen in the Google Cluster Toolkit. Starting with release v1.102.0, the netapp-storage-pool and netapp-volume modules provision Flex Unified pools and volumes directly from a blueprint, including zonal and regional pools, large capacity (scale-out) pools,…
The industry has largely converged on what an AI agent is, but not all product labeling has caught up. There are tools that adopted the term early and use it for things that are not agents under the current definition. An “agent” in a product menu may or may not reflect what the term means now, which makes it worth stating…
Hybrid multicloud operations have reached an inflection point. For years, infrastructure teams have worked across disconnected tools, fragmented management planes, and environment-specific workflows to keep storage estates running. That model worked when estates were smaller, more centralized, and easier to reason about…
Exciting news for Kubernetes storage management! NetApp Trident 26.06.1 is now available in Preview for use with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) ONTAP-mode. This update enables Trident to create and manage your Kubernetes volumes when your GCNV storage pool is in ONTAP-mode! Why ONTAP-mode? While Flex Unified default…
With the release last year of our new generation of ASA series of controllers, you may have noticed that I updated the VMware vSphere with ONTAP Best Practices to recommend using the latency policy option on the round-robin Path Selection Plugin (PSP) with ASA systems. You can also set this option when using the newer…
For years, protecting VMware datastores with ONTAP tools meant an all-or-nothing choice: protect an entire host cluster, or protect nothing at all. With ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 10.6, that trade-off goes away. This release introduces Granular Datastore Protection, a new right-sized deployment option for smaller…
August 20, 2026- San Jose, CA The NetApp® Support Site won an Association of Support Professionals Best Support Website in 2026 award for the ninth year in a row. The Association of Support Professionals (ASP) has held this competition for over 20 years. It has changed in that time to keep pace with ever-evolving…
If you have been following this blog for a while, you have probably noticed that the majority of my recent posts have dealt with KV cache offloading. This is not by accident. As AI initiatives reach operational maturity, ROI is coming under increasing scrutiny while compute infrastructure remains structurally scarce and…
At first glance, Azure NetApp Files (ANF) can look pricey. If you line it up next to other Azure storage options and just compare list prices, it’s easy to think, “Why would I pay a premium for cloud storage?” But here’s the thing; list price isn’t what you pay. And once you look at the effective price, the number that…
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