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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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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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Application-Consistent Snapshots for Oracle on GCNV- ONTAP mode with Consistency Groups
Why this matter? For many Oracle environments, the biggest challenge is not creating backups—it is recovering fast enough when a failure occurs. Traditional RMAN backups are copy-based, meaning backup and restore times grow with database size. As databases scale into tens or hundreds of terabytes, backup windows expand,…
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Optimizing Cloud Storage Costs: Auto-Tiering with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Flex Unified
You are grappling with explosive data growth—yet not all data is equal. Some datasets are “hot” and frequently accessed, while others quietly age into “cold” data that sits idle but still consumes expensive storage. How can you pay less for data that isn’t accessed often, or is so old you don’t even know what it is but you…
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NetApp Trident Orchestrates Google Cloud NetApp Volumes Block for Kubernetes
Authors: Zach Ward & Diane Patton, NetApp Exciting update for container developers and operators! If your applications need high-performance block storage, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) now has you covered. With the general availability of Enterprise block (iSCSI) with Flex Unified storage pools in GCNV and the latest…
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How Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) Cuts SQL Server TCO
Enterprises running Microsoft SQL Server on Google Cloud are constantly looking for ways to simplify architectures, improve resilience, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Traditionally, conversations around cost optimization have often pushed teams toward choosing one high‑availability deployment model over…
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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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Introducing Autonomous Ransomware Protection Powered by AI in NetApp ONTAP 9.17.1
Understanding ARP/AI Functionality The ARP/AI operates by analyzing file characteristics without accessing actual file contents, ensuring data privacy while identifying suspicious encrypted files through probabilistic modeling. * It monitors saved data for signals such as data entropy, encrypted file content and headers to…