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Locking to Enable Trident Controller Scalability
Several blogs (From hours to minutes: Trident 26.06 controller concurrency at 1000 volume scale and Trident Controller Parallelism) have described the improvements made, starting in Trident 25.06, to add concurrency to the Trident controller to increase throughput and scalability. Here we will do a deep dive into how this…
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XCP support / workaround for RHEL / Oracle 9
Hi I got about 1pb nfs data to migrate, and was hoping to use XCP, however all my strong hosts running Oracle 9.4. At first, I taught putting libffi.so.6 in xcp-lib and loading as below worked, but it' didn't… LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/xcp-lib /tmp/xcp194p1/xcp/linux/xcp I keep getting random issues on each command, so I assume…
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NetApp Extends Symmetric Active-Active SAN Pathing to Unified AFF
Figure 1: Symmetric Active-Active SAN pathing on NetApp AFF Modern enterprise SAN environments cannot tolerate downtime. Mission‑critical databases and large‑scale VMware deployments demand continuous availability and predictable I/O behavior, with little tolerance for controller failovers or path transition delays. At the…
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internal hard drive wiping
Good afternoon, I need some assistance. How can I perform a secure erase or format on the hard drives of a NetApp server (models FAS2040 and FAS2650)?
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Is there any way to get a report or list of cascade snapmirror relationships
I have a setup of snapmirror and snapvault with with A>B is snapmirror and B>C is snapvault. Looking for an option to get the report or list which can list these cascade relationship with details. Is there any way we can get this?
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Unlock precision at scale with NetApp Harvest: Real-time GCNV insights directly on Cloud Monitoring
In our previous blog post, we explored how NetApp Harvest provides a single collection layer across your entire storage estate, whether you are using ONTAP on-prem or in the cloud across Google Cloud, Azure, AWS etc. We also walked through the set up for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) Flex Unified pools with ONTAP-mode…
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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 10.6 Granular Datastore Protection
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…