New Year, New Role!

Last year, I transitioned from the on-prem ONTAP product group over to the Google CVS and Astra group to work on some new challenges. While over there, I created some new stuff. For starters, I partnered up with Oliver Krause to work on a Cloud Volumes Services security doc for Google Cloud. You can find …

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 309: NetApp Cloud Data Sense

Welcome to the Episode 309, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp Cloud Software Engineer Yossi Ashkenazi (yossi@netapp.com) and Global Expansion Manager Ben Kesten (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkesten, ben.kesten@netapp.com) of NetApp join us to discuss NetApp's Cloud Data Sense, which offers data management and analytics capabilities for your cloud and …

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 …

How to see data transfer on an ONTAP cluster network

ONTAP clusters utilize a backend cluster network to allow multiple HA pairs to communicate and provide more scale for performance and capacity. This is done by allowing you to nondisruptively add new nodes (and, as a result, capacity and compute) into a cluster. Data will be accessible regardless of where you connect in the cluster. …

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 …

Brand new tech report: Multiprotocol NAS Best Practices in ONTAP

I don't like to admit to being a procrastinator, but... (Not actually a sloth) Four years ago, I said this: And people have asked about it a few times since then. To be fair, I did say "will be a ways out..." In actuality, I started that TR in March of 2017. And then again …