Behind the Scenes Episode 354: NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup Volumes and BlueXP Cloud Backup

Welcome to the Episode 354, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Semion Mazor (semion@netapp.com) and Cecile Kellam (cecilek@netapp.com) join us to discuss the new addition to BlueXP Cloud Backup - FlexGroup volumes! Now you can backup, index and restore your high file count environments at a …

Behind the Scenes Episode 349: NetApp FlexCache and Storage Efficiency Updates for ONTAP 9.12.1

Welcome to the Episode 349, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the Tech ONTAP Podcast, Chris Hurley (@AverageGuyX) and Elliott Ecton (elliott.ecton@netapp.com) join us to discuss the latest FlexCache updates in ONTAP 9.12.1, as well as the latest information on the set of storage efficiency …

Behind the Scenes Episode 348: NetApp ONTAP 9.12.1 – S3 Updates

Welcome to the Episode 348, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, NetApp TME John Lantz (ng-ontap-s3-info@netapp.com) joins us to discuss the latest ONTAP S3 updates for ONTAP 9.12.1, including S3/NAS interoperability. And much more! For more information: S3 in ONTAP Best Practices | …

Behind the Scenes Episode 347: NetApp ONTAP 9.12.1 Overview

Welcome to the Episode 347, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Keith Aasen (keitha@netapp.com) and Ken Mencher (mencher@netapp.com) from the ONTAP product team join us to discuss what's in ONTAP 9.12.1! We cover: Important FlexCache and S3 enhancements Security advancements BlueXP And much more! For more …

Behind the Scenes Episode 330 – NetApp ONTAP 9.11.1 Overview

Welcome to the Episode 330, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, we cover what's new in NetApp ONTAP 9.11.1 with ONTAP Evangelist Keith Aasen (keitha@netapp.com)! For more information: ONTAP 9.11.1 download ONTAP 9.11.1 release notes Tech ONTAP Community We also now have a presence on the …

Behind the Scenes Episode 289 – NetApp and Rubrik: Better Together

Welcome to the Episode 289, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, we discuss the latest news in the NetApp/Rubrik partnership and how Rubrik works with Ben Kendall (Alliances Technical Partner Manager, Americas at Rubrik, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-kendall-6436609/) and PF Guglielmi (Alliances Field CTO @pfguglielmi) of Rubrik and Chris Maino …

ONTAP 9.9.1RC1 is now available!

ONTAP is keeping the twice-yearly release cadence by providing spring and fall releases to keep up with the need for new and rapidly developing features. In addition, the cloud versions of ONTAP will use different release numbers. ONTAP 9.9 signifies the cloud release of ONTAP and ONTAP 9.9.1 is the on-prem release. You can download …

How to Map File and Folder Locations to NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup Member Volumes with XCP

The concept behind a NetApp FlexGroup volume is that ONTAP presents a single large namespace for NAS data, while ONTAP handles the balance and placement of files and folders to the underlying FlexVol member volumes, rather than a storage administrator needing to manage that. I cover it in more detail in: TR-4571: NetApp FlexGroup Volumes …

How to identify a file or folder in ONTAP in NFS packet traces

When you're troubleshooting NFS issues, sometimes you have to collect a packet capture to see what's going on. But the issue is, packet captures don't really tell you the file or folder names. I like to use Wireshark for Mac and Windows, and regular old tcpdump for Linux. For ONTAP, you can run packet captures …

How pNFS could benefit cloud architecture

Yesterday, I was speaking with a customer who is a cloud provider. They were discussing how to use NFSv4 with clustered Data ONTAP for one of their customers. As we were talking, I brought up pNFS and its capabilities. They were genuinely excited about what pNFS could do for their particular use case.