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Rethinking On-premises Storage Management at Scale
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…
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NetApp Console Autonomous Operations: From Managing Infrastructure to Declaring Outcomes
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…
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VDDK Is No Longer Available. NetApp’s Shift Toolkit Never Needed It
Over the past week, I've received several messages from customers asking the same question: Does the removal of public VDDK downloads affect NetApp Shift Toolkit migrations? It's a valid concern. Many migration solutions in the market have historically relied on VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) as a core…
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Need Clarity on on FAS70 to DS212C shelf connectivity
Recently one of our customer has purchase the FAS70 with 2 Qty of DS212C shelf... Now we want to do the connectivity from controller to shelf.. for which I am referring this document : https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-systems/fas-70-90/install-cable.html#step-4-cable-the-shelf-connections . In this document it has show…
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AFX setup failed
4-Node AFX-A1K Installation Version 9.19.1 Wipeconfig was executed in boot_cenu; In loader according to KB（ https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ASAr2/ASAr2_KBs/How_to_reinitialize_disaggregated_storage ）Operated When entering setup cli, the configuration still reports an error: storage pod setup for create failed Is there any…
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NCDA: New Title, Same Credential
As part of an update, the NCDA credential and exam received revised titles in December 2025. NEW Credential Title NetApp Certified Data ONTAP Administrator Professional OLD Credential Title NetApp Certified Data Administrator ONTAP Professional NEW Exam Title NetApp Data ONTAP Administrator Exam (NCDA) OLD Exam Title…
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Expanding C-190 aggregates
I'm really new on ONTAP and got the task of expanding the aggregates on C-190 NETAPP storage. I need help in put down the correct steps to expand the aggregates and the volumes presented to esxi cluster. Can anyone help on this ? thanks
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Uncertified drive detected
A hard drive has failed in a grid node at one of my clients’ sites. We installed a new, previously used hard drive. Now the following message appears in the grid log: Uncertified drive detected. Has anyone else experienced this before? As I understand it, this is because the drive came from a system that had newer firmware…
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get-ncnode on 9.18.1 controllers doesn't work (REST)
On some newly upgraded clusters 9.18.1P6, I receive this error: Get-NcNode: Line | 20 | $nodes = Get-NcNode -Controller $cluster | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Error converting value "All checks passed" to type 'DataONTAP.C.Types.System.Reason'. Path 'ha.takeover_check.reasons[0]', line 143, position 27. Other…
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Use PowerShell Automation to Maximize Performance and Resilience of VMware Datastores on ASA systems
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…