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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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Kubernetes Meets Google Cloud NetApp Volumes ONTAP-Mode: Now Preview in Trident
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…
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ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 10.6: More Control, Less Overhead, and Stronger Operations
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…
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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.…
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How to back up databases in seconds and restore them in minutes with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Databases are at the heart of many business‑critical applications and services. They underpin essential functions such as order processing, billing, inventory management, customer portals, analytics, and much more. When a database becomes unavailable, the consequences are immediate: users lose access to vital information,…
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Is your SAN strategy stuck in the past? Here’s the ROI of modernization
Are you still managing your SAN with a “if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it” mindset? It might be time to rethink that approach. According to a recent IDC Business Value Solution Brief, sponsored by NetApp, Interviewed companies reported a 49% faster identification of root causes for issues, thanks to unified dashboards and…
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Deciding between NFSv3 or NFSv4.x? The choice is getting clearer…
* What does NFSv4 bring to the equation? * Sounds great… why don’t more people use it? * What is NetApp AFX? * NFSv4.x improvements in ONTAP 9.18.1 using AFX * Sequential IO results * Metadata-heavy workload results * So now what? NFS version 3 has been a gold standard for NFS applications for decades – starting all the…
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Announcing the release of NetApp Connector v1.1 (for Microsoft 365 Copilot)
IMPORTANT - This article is now out-of-date and refers to the initial release of the NetApp Connector. The connector has seen significant development since the release of this article and a new post for v3.x of NetApp Connector (aka Project Neo) is due imminently. What's New in v1.1? * Item level ACL extraction - preserves…