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Zero RPO, Zero RTO for NAS: SnapMirror active sync Comes to File Workloads
Zero-RPO and Zero-RTO for NAS For years, zero recovery point objective (RPO) for NAS workloads has been achieved through synchronous replication, but achieving zero recovery time objective (RTO) has been a major bottleneck to achieving business continuity. Although synchronous copies of data were available, accessing those…
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Move iSCSI Volumes Live with Trident 26.06: A Hands-on Guide
Move iSCSI Volumes Live with Trident 26.06: A Hands-on Guide to Volume Move Overview Kubernetes environments change constantly: aggregates fill, nodes need maintenance, and performance hot spots appear. With Trident 26.06, you can now move an iSCSI-backed volume non-disruptively to a different ONTAP node and aggregate…
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Connecting file data with AWS AI and analytics services: A governance-first approach
Enterprise organizations have been storing enterprise file‑based data for decades. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a range of AI and analytics services that unlock new ways to extract insights, automate decisions, and build differentiated applications. There is value in making on-premises file data available to…
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Enhanced Virtual Machine Protection with NetApp Trident Protect
NetApp Trident Protect enables you to back up and restore KubeVirt virtual machines (VMs) running on OpenShift Virtualization or KubeVirt. You can protect all VMs across one or more namespaces at once or use the newly introduced includedVirtualMachines field to target specific VMs by name. Trident Protect automatically…
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Why storage assessment is critical when planning your migration to the AWS Cloud
Cloud migration has become a strategic priority for organizations seeking greater agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. However, while early planning discussions often focus on applications and compute resources, storage decisions are often deferred or simplified, even though they have a critical impact on…
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Move Faster and Get Back to Business: Rapid Multi-VM Migration Using NetApp Shift Toolkit and Red Hat’s MTV
Modern virtualization strategies are evolving rapidly. As organizations embrace Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a strategic platform for running both their virtual machines (VMs) and containers, one challenge consistently rises to the top - how to migrate at scale without adding complexity, risk and extended business…
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Oracle & SQL Server Best Practices on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Practical configuration guidance for block storage (iSCSI/LUN) deployments on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) — storage, host, and database layers for both Oracle and SQL Server. Core Principles * Multipathing — GCNV presents each iSCSI volume over two target portal IPs. Connect and use both; this is a baseline…
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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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Dataset Manager on Kubernetes - a JupyterLab example
When I introduced the NetApp DataOps Toolkit's Dataset Manager module, I focused on what it does for data scientists working in Python on a traditional Linux or macOS host. Instead of thinking about ONTAP volumes and NFS mounts, you now work with datasets. These datasets appear as simple, named directories on your local…
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Resource Transformations in NetApp Trident Protect
The recently introduced resource transformations in NetApp Trident Protect enable you to modify a resource as it is being restored. This is useful when the restored version needs to differ from the original — for example, changing a virtual machine's IP address when restoring it to a different network or scaling down a…
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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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Bring on the clones!
I confess – I love NetApp® snapshotTM copies! They brought me to NetApp nearly 20 years ago, as I loved the effortless data protection they offer as well as the great people behind the technology. Stay tuned for my next blog where I cover the many features that snapshots enable, from short-term data protection to…
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Streamlining Cloud Storage: How 430+ Developers are Mastering GCNV with the Cursor Agent
Bridging the Gap Between Code and Cloud Storage For modern developers, the "context switch" is a silent productivity killer. Managing cloud storage often requires jumping between a primary IDE, the cloud provider's console, various dashboards, and complex documentation just to provision or inspect a volume. This…
