I am Scott Peiffer, Sr. Director from the ONTAP System Manager Product Management & Technical Marketing team. Thank you to our many passionate customers and partners for sharing your feedback on System Manager 9.8. This post is to provide you with background on the changes being made to ONTAP, information on how to learn more about these changes, and guidance on how best to provide feedback to NetApp. ONTAP System Manager simplification is to directly address your changing needs as you work to support larger data sets, with new applications while expanding into hybrid multi-cloud environments. The simplification effort has been data driven. Significant time was spent on determining and setting smart defaults based on NetApp best practices, automating, and simplifying many of the everyday tasks, and then prioritized workflows that were most frequently used. Since ONTAP provides AIQ with metrics on feature usage, we were able to understand what features our customer use most and what is infrequently used. The feedback that has been received is being considered and prioritized. To be transparent, there are other items which will not be addressed as they are considered complex, infrequent, or unneeded based on our desire to provide our customers with self-managing storage. We also hear analysts, for example Gartner stating by 2023, 60% of organizations will use infrastructure automation tools as part of their DevOps toolchains, and improve application deployment efficiency by 25%. (source: Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation Tools, May 2020). API driven integrations will be essential to our customers success. Anecdotally, we have heard in our virtual EBCs that many of our globals and large enterprise customers are managing their infrastructure with tools such as Service Now and Remedy, and even homegrown tools that consolidate service management across various vendors in their data center, all based on API services. There are a number of such tools that operate in infrastructure and application context that we are looking to support... To aid you in this transition we have published an extensive set of documents here: https://community.netapp.com/t5/Tech-ONTAP-Blogs/Where-can-I-learn-more-about-System-Manager-9-8/ba-p/162249   Please continue to share your feedback though your NetApp account teams! This is how we can best aggregate feedback, address your needs and respond. Help us along this journey with your improvement suggestions. Sincerely, Ravi Chhabria (VP Engineering) Scott Peiffer (Sr. Director ONTAP System Manager Product Management & Technical Marketing) ... View more

Hi guys, I have a Dell NetWorker client and we need to create a backup repository on NetApp. Are there NetApp best practices for working with NetWorker? We need to be more efficient in dedup and compress on NetApp.   Thanks! ... View more

I have an ifgrp created as follows where it is being connected to a Cisco Nexus using VPC, I would like to know what the balancing method should be configured in the Nexus LACP, understanding that it must be the same as this one in the Netapp "Port" put on Nexus several options of "port" causing me confusion for which the correct to ask the network team.   ifgrp create -node <node> -ifgrp a0a -distr-func port -mode multimode_lacp ... View more

There is NFS volume containing about 500 GB data, however, about 450GB data is being used by SnapShots due to a frequent changed/deleted data in a directory. I am thinking to separate this directory from NFS volume, and move it to the other NFS volume without having snapshot setting.    Does this solution make sense to you, any other better solution? ... View more

Hi Folks,   Is there any specific user guide to configure NDMP with veritas netbackup 8.3. I have already gone through all sort of documentation on netapp. Can some one answer my below questions. We have AFF400 for which i have LACP 2 ports (e0f/e0h as a0b) which are of 10Gb each and created separate broadcast domain. Does LACP works  on the NDMP backup with veritas? 1. I have currently tapes drives configured with Hitachi NAS now, can we use the same tape drives to configure NDMP on netapp. Will there be any issues or errors with current tape drives which is working fine on HNAS? If so how exactly the zoning should be done ( Tape Drives and Netapp ports zoning since i use LACP can i add both the ports on each node and make one zone per node). Is this the correct way ? 2. Is it mandatory to create intercluster LIF's?  3. LIF assigned should be in the same IP range as the backup network? 4. Any requirement that we should use Accelerator for NDMP from Netbackup ? PS:--  For NetApp filers, Accelerator for NDMP supports only the DUMP format. Consult your NetApp documentation for specific details about its DUMP format.   prod           prod-01_mgmt1                                                       up/up 10.10.50.100/24 prod-01 e0M true                       prod-02_mgmt1                                                       up/up 10.10.50.102/24 prod-02 e0M true                        cluster_mgmt up/up 10.10.50.103/24 prod-01 e0M true vserver1                        datalif10 up/up 10.10.100.20/24 prod-01 a0a true vserver2                        datalif20 up/up 10.5.197.61/24 prod-02 a0a true   Appreciate your help. ... View more