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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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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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Simplify SAN deployments with FlexPod ASA SAN solutions
Why ASA The new NetApp® All-flash SAN Array (ASA) scale-out storage systems are simple, powerful, optimized for SAN deployments and support advanced data management and protection features. The ASA systems support IP-based and FC-based SAN protocols with symmetric active-active multipathing for mission-critical enterprise…
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How to improve the Dell PowerMax end-user experience with NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights
You may be asking yourself why we’re talking about a Dell storage platform alongside a NetApp service, but I assure you it’s for very good reasons. If you’re new to the topic, you may have missed our first discussion on PowerMax. For an introduction to managing PowerMax on Data Infrastructure Insights, check out the…
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How to improve Dell PowerMax operational resiliency with NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights
Wondering how a NetApp service like Data Infrastructure Insights can enhance the performance of your Dell PowerMax estate? You're not alone. Data Infrastructure Insights is a versatile IT observability platform explicitly designed for heterogeneous storage landscapes, including your Dell estate. Whether you’re managing a…
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Reducing Mean-Time-To-Innocence with infrastructure change analysis
In the decades since the advent of shared enterprise storage, technology has moved on leaps and bounds. But one thing has remained consistent: whenever there’s a performance issue with a service or application, somehow, some way, it’s probably the storage team’s fault. There was once some truth to this - spinning disks…