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 …

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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.

Behind the Scenes – Episode 279: NetApp and Oracle – What’s New?

Welcome to the Episode 279, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Jeff Steiner (@TweetOfSteiner) joins us to drop some Oracle knowledge on us, as well as talk about how to best implement Oracle on NetApp storage and what's new for Oracle on NFS. For more information: TR-3633: …

Behind the Scenes – Episode 270: NetApp ONTAP File Systems Analytics

Welcome to the Episode 270, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, we do a deep dive into the new ONTAP 9.8 feature in System Manager - File Systems Analytics - and why it's improving the lives of storage administrators. Podcast Transcriptions If you want an AI transcribed …

Behind the Scenes – Episode 269: Medical Imaging Workloads with NetApp Solutions

Welcome to the Episode 269, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, NetApp's Tony Turner (@tnyturner) drops by to talk about how NetApp solutions are driving successful deployments for medical imaging workloads. For more information: FlexPod for Medical Imaging https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/19793-tr-4865.pdf Podcast Transcriptions If you want …

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.

New XCP 1.6.1 Version is now Available!

If you use XCP (or have used it), you might have run into an issue or two on occasion - generally related to memory issues or problems with XCP sync taking too long. The new XCP 1.6.1 release aims to fix some of those issues. Key enhancements Sync Performance : Identified sync bottlenecks w.r.t change …

New/Updated NAS Technical Reports! – Spring 2020

With the COVID-19 quarantine, stay at home orders and new 1-year ONTAP release cadence, I'm finding I have a lot more spare time, which translates into time to update old, crusty technical reports! Some of the old TRs hadn't been updated for 3 years or so. Much of the information in those still applied, but …

Mounting ONTAP CIFS/SMB shares with Linux – Guidelines and tips

Every now and then, the question of mounting CIFS/SMB shares in ONTAP using Linux clients comes up. Many people might consider this configuration to be a crime against nature. If you're asking yourself "why would someone want to do this," there are a few reasons. Lock handling - SMB locks use oplocks. NFS locks use …