The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides design recommendations, guidelines, and best practices for various aspects of the IT landscape on AWS. Applied to storage, it becomes a powerful tool to optimize performance, cost efficiency, and governance.    But following the many dictates of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is a challenging task for even the most experienced admins. What if you could automatically apply AWS Well-Architected best practices to your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) storage system and easily adopt their recommendations?    ... View more

Confused about where to start with LLMs? In this post, I will walk through the deployment of a basic LLM inference stack that uses vLLM. ... View more

Best Practices for file transfers to NetApp ... View more

Are you finding it challenging to create a secure and immutable backup of large MSSQL datasets that continue to grow year over year, whether in the cloud (such as CVO Azure or AWS FSxN) or on-premises? Is your restore and recovery process taking hours instead of minutes? Do you aim for faster development cycles and quicker time to market? Are you noticing a consistent increase in your backup's total cost of ownership (TCO)?   Last month, I published blog post about new service introduced in NetApp unified backup & recovery, which is currently in preview, designed to protect databases.   Here is the intro video on using NetApp Unified backup & recovery with demo      Sign up for preview link here     ... View more

If you’re looking for a code-based way to run your infrastructure, it’s easy to deploy Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) using the AWS Terraform Provider FSx Resource. But are you sure you know what all the arguments are doing? ... View more