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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…
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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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OpenStack Gazpacho (2026.1): Enterprise Grade Storage Advances with NetApp – Part 2 of 2
Gazpacho logo In OpenStack Gazpacho (2026.1): Enterprise Grade Storage Advances with NetApp – Part 1 of 2, I wrote about what is already baked into the upstream Gazpacho release with the NetApp Manila drivers. If you haven’t read Part-1, I’d recommend reading it over once because file services are inherently part of any…
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OpenStack Gazpacho (2026.1): Enterprise Grade Storage Advances with NetApp – Part 1 of 2
OpenStack Gazpacho Release As OpenStack evolves and solidifies its position as a leading choice for top enterprises and service providers, its storage capabilities are increasingly becoming critically important for managing large amounts of data. Modern organizations require a fully integrated private cloud solution, and…
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Unifying Infrastructure with Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Co-author: Firas Yasin, Red Hat You need to modernize, but you can't afford to rewrite every application for containers overnight. The common approach creates a costly divide: your modern apps run in one environment, and your traditional VMs run in another. This forces you to pay for two infrastructures, manage two…
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Simplify VMware and database migration strategies with Matilda Cloud and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Organizations migrating workloads from data centers or other hyperscalers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) often share a common challenge: How to assess and optimize what the future deployment and its end-state architecture will look like from the earliest stages of the planning cycle. Making decisions about your…
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Linux Bridge vs Open vSwitch for Proxmox VE
Proxmox VE supports Linux bridge and OpenvSwitch for networking. Linux Bridge is default option and for OpenvSwitch, need to install openvswitch-switch package. When planning to use VLANs for host storage networking as well as for VM, OpenvSwitch makes it as better option. In this blog, I will explore the concerns with…
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ONTAP Tools for VMware 10.5 (Part 2 of 3): Protecting your VMware vSphere and VCF Deployments
Introduction: In last week's blog, we were excited to announce the latest version of NetApp ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere. The 10.5 update is designed to simplify and secure your VMware Cloud Foundation storage operations. This release includes several new customer-requested features that enhance security, resilience,…
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ONTAP Tools for VMware 10.5 (Part 1 of 3): Hardening Your VMware Private Cloud
Introduction: We’re excited to announce the latest release of NetApp ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere, designed to simplify and secure storage operations for VMware vSphere and Cloud Foundation. This update brings new features that enhance security, resilience, automation, and manageability for modern enterprise…
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Optimize Hyper-V Performance and Capacity Management with NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights
If you’re running Microsoft Hyper-V, you’ve probably felt the pain of juggling many siloed tools, chasing down performance issues, and never quite having the full picture of how your VMs, hosts, and storage all fit together. It’s all too easy to get stuck context-switching between Hyper-V Manager, Perfmon, and your storage…