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FAS50 upgrade 9.16.1P7 to 9.17.1P10 - SnapCenter 5.0 EOVS compatibility?
Hi all, We are planning upgrade of a FAS50 from ONTAP 9.16.1P7 to 9.17.1P10. Reason for upgrade is controller panic/reboot related with mgwd becoming unresponsive. Fix for our issue is confirmed on 9.17.1P10 and not available on 9.16.1 patches. Before upgrade we want make sure nothing on our environment can be affected.…
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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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Optimize Oracle databases on AWS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp Workload Factory
This blog was co-authored by Bruno Almeida, Technology Advisor, bruno@exce.pt. Oracle databases remain the foundation of many enterprise applications. As organizations adopt cloud-first strategies, migrating and managing these critical workloads on AWS presents a whole new operating model. AWS offers multiple options for…
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SnapMirror active sync and the active-active data center
* SnapMirror active sync and the active-active data center * RPO=0 * RTO=0 * SnapMirror active sync architecture * SAN design with SnapMirror active sync * Uniform access * Uniform access with local proximity * Nonuniform access * Uniform access with ASA * SnapMirror active sync vs MetroCluster * SnapMirror active sync…
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Large Oracle Database Deployment in Google Cloud
High throughput and mission-critical Oracle VLDB put a heavy demand on backend database storage. To meet the service level agreement (SLA), the database storage must deliver the required capacity and high input/output operations per second (IOPS) while maintaining sub-millisecond latency performance. This is particularly…
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Automated Oracle Clone Lifecycle on ANF with ASM
The solution provides an Ansible-based automation toolkit for setting up, cloning, and refreshing Oracle clone databases from the physical standby database of Oracle Data Guard hosted in Azure cloud on Azure NetApp Files storage with ASM configuration. Attached is the link to the details of the toolkit's documentation.…
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Symmetric active-active Oracle clustering with ONTAP
Active-active data center (with Oracle!) I've worked with Oracle customers on DR solutions for 15+ years. The perfect solution would, of course, be RPO=0 and RTO=0*, but not all applications can tolerate the write latency involved in an RPO=0 synchronous solution. Sometimes you have to settle for an RPO of 15 minutes or a…
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SVM Migrate without reading the documentation
This is a post about how I expectedly needed to use an ONTAP feature in order to test a completely different ONTAP feature. If you haven't heard of it, SVM Migrate is a high availability feature that allows you to migrate a running storage environment from one cluster to a completely different cluster, nondisruptively.…
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Announcing General Availability of SnapCenter 5.0
SnapCenter software provides centralized control and oversight, allowing users to manage applications aware backup, restore, and clone operations across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments. In addition, we are also introducing the SnapCenter plugin for VMware vSphere 5.0 version to manage vm aware…
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NFSv3 and NFSv4: What's the difference?
* Why NFSv4? * What this post is not * NFSv4 versions * NFSv4 features * Exception #1 * "Upgrading" from NFSv3 to NFSv4 * NFS through a firewall * NFS Security * NFS Security - Kerberos * NFS Security - Private VLANs * NFS Security - IPSec * NFS Security - Application Layer * NFSv4.1 Locks and Leases * Locking * Leases *…