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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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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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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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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…
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Supercharge team collaboration with FlexPod Datacenter for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops
Supercharge team collaboration with FlexPod Datacenter for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops A validated VDI architecture for scalable, high-performance Citrix workloads Modern datacenters face many challenges including how to deliver a consistent end-user experience across applications, devices, and locations. Many…
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does Netapp have plugin for Nutanix such as vmware snapcenter plugin?
we are moving our VMWare VMs to Nutanix, just wonder if we have VM plugin for Nutanix to take VM snapshots such as VMWare Snapcenter plugin? thank you
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can two vcenters point to same VMWare plugin server?
we have created second Vcenter, just wonder if we can point the new vCenter to the same snapcenter VMWare plugin server without creating second plugin server. thank you,
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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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Automate Amazon Elastic VMware Service migrations with Workload Factory inventory upload mode
VMware teams are facing growing pressure to modernize infrastructure and reduce costs while maintaining fast, reliable, and secure operations. To meet these demands strategically and at scale, Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) can be the next step for these teams, offering scalability and access to a wide range of…
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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.5 setup - vCenter insufficient privileges
Hi, this is a new installation of ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.5. When we click on the OTV plugin within vCenter, buttons are all greyed out - hovering over displays "Insufficient privilege" Per the following NetApp KB, we've verified that both forward and reverse DNS is functioning…