What’s New for ONTAP 9.8?

ONTAP 9.8 is currently available as a release candidate here: https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/products/all/details/ontap9/downloads-tab We're pretty close to seeing it available for general availability, so in preparation for that, here are some resources available for you to figure out exactly what is in the latest release. Insight Presentation: Do More with Less in the Latest Release of NetApp …

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Behind the Scenes – Episode 263: Virtualization in ONTAP – Fall 2020 Update

Welcome to the Episode 263, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp ONTAP Virtualization PM Karl Konnerth (@konnerth) and Virtualization TME Chance Bingen (@CB8MyDataCenter) join me to discuss the latest updates to ONTAP for VMware virtualization integration, as well as what sessions they recommend for NetApp Insight …

Behind the Scenes – Episode 261: How DreamWorks Animation Creates New Worlds on NetApp ONTAP

This week, I was lucky enough to snag a long-time NetApp customer and engineering partner DreamWorks Animation to talk about how the studio leverages NetApp ONTAP to build some of the most creative and effects intensive CG animated films on the planet.

Behind the Scenes: Episode 228 – FlexPod for Industry Verticals – Healthcare

Welcome to the Episode 228, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we discuss FlexPod and the new initiative to create validated designs for industry verticals. First up - Healthcare and Epic software with NetApp Sr. Product Manager for Converged Infrastructure, Ketan Mota (ketan.mota@netapp.com) …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 227 – Pacific Biosciences, ONTAP and Unstructured NAS

Welcome to the Episode 227, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, Adam Knight (@damknight) of Pacific Biosciences joins us to discuss how PacBio uses ONTAP for all of its unstructured NAS workload requirements, with a focus on FlexGroup volumes! Also, check out these …

Updated FlexGroup Technical Reports now available for ONTAP 9.7!

ONTAP 9.7 is now available, so that means the TRs need to get a refresh. There are some new features in ONTAP 9.7 for FlexGroup volumes, including: NDMP NFSv4.x (with pNFS) FlexClone VAAI FlexVol to FlexGroup conversion The TRs cover those features, and there are some updates to other areas that might not have been …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 219 – FlexVol to FlexGroup Conversion

Welcome to the Episode 219, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we invite the NetApp FlexGroup Technical Director, Dan Tennant, and FlexGroup developer Jessica Peters, to talk to us about the ins and outs of converting a FlexVol to a FlexGroup in-place, with …

FlexGroup Conversion: Moving from FlexVols to FlexGroups the Easy Way

UPDATED: Added 500 million file test to this to show that file count doesn't matter. 🙂 NetApp announced ONTAP 9.7 at Insight 2019 in Las Vegas, which included a number of new features. But mainly, ONTAP 9.7 focuses on making storage management in ONTAP simpler. One of the new features that will help make things …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 209 – Designing an End-to-End Genomics Solution Using NetApp

Welcome to the Episode 209, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we talk genomics and how to design an end to end solution using NetApp products across the portfolio with Cloud Solution Architect Florian Fledhaus (@flfeld).  Finding the Podcast You can find this week’s episode …

Using XCP to delete files en masse: A race against rm

XCP has traditionally been thought of as a way to rapidly migrate large amounts of data, or to scan data and generate reports. And those ideas still hold up today.... But what if i told you that you could use XCP to delete millions of files 5-6x faster than running rm on an NFS client? …