Behind the Scenes Episode 313: Autonomous SAN with Broadcom and NetApp

Welcome to the Episode 313, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, AJ Casamento (aj.casamento@broadcom.com) and Ant Tyrell (anthony.tyrell@netapp.com) join us to discuss how Broadcom and NetApp are changing the way enterprise SAN remediates issues and adjusts for performance changes with autonomous SAN. For more information: https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/san-storage-area-network/ https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/san-storage-area-network/documentation/ …

Behind the Scenes Episode 312: NFS over RDMA – NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1

Welcome to the Episode 312, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, NetApp TME David Arnette (@daveA_netapp) joins us to discuss the new NFS over RDMA feature in NetApp ONTAP 9.10.1 and how it boosts performance for AI, ML and other HPC workloads. Other resources: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/pdfs/sidebar/Manage_NFS_over_RDMA.pdf Podcast Transcriptions …

Behind the Scenes Episode 311: Introducing the NetApp AFF A900

Welcome to the Episode 311, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week, Cheryl George and Chris Lueth join us to discuss the latest addition to the NetApp ONTAP platform portfolio, the AFF A900! Joining us: Cheryl George, NetApp Outbound PM (cheryl.george@netapp.com) Chris Lueth, NetApp Principal TME - Hardware …

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 248 – NABox and NetApp ONTAP Performance Monitoring with NetApp Harvest

Welcome to the Episode 248, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” Recently, I tried to set up NetApp Harvest from scratch, using Grafana and Graphite. By the end of the day, with no working instance, I realized that it just wasn't going to happen. Then, I remembered NABox …

Using NABox for NetApp Performance Monitoring on Microsoft Hyper-V

If you've ever tried to install and configure Grafana, you'll find that it's not the easiest thing to use. Simply installing it and getting it to work right can be challenging, and when you factor in adding NetApp monitoring in using Harvest, it gets a bit more complicated. There are some fairly good step-by-step configuration …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 157 – Performance Analysis Using OnCommand Unified Manager

Welcome to the Episode 157, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we welcome Mr. Performance himself, Tony Gaddis (gaddis@netapp.com) to give us a tutorial on easily finding performance issues using OnCommand Unified Manager, as well as some common “rules of thumb” when it comes to how …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 149 – Cloud Volume Services Performance with Oracle Databases

Welcome to the Episode 149, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, TME Chad Morgenstern (@sockpupets) joins us to discuss how performance looks in Cloud Volume Services for Oracle Database workloads. Interested in Cloud Volume Services? You can investigate on your own here: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes You can …

Behind the Scenes: Episode 147 – SPC-1v3 Results – NetApp AFF A800

Welcome to the Episode 147, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.” This week on the podcast, we find out how the new NetApp A800 system fared in the rigorous SPC-1 v3 storage benchmarks. Can the NVMe attached SSDs truly help reduce latency while maintaining high number of IOPs? …

ONTAP 9.4RC1 is now available!

Hear ye! Hear ye! All ye storage admins! ONTAP 9.4RC1 is announced today! That's right! Every 6 months, without fail, a new ONTAP version with a payload of new features is released. You can find ONTAP 9.4RC1 here: http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/9.4RC1 For info on what a release candidate is, see: http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/products/ontap_releasemodel/ Also, check out the documentation center: …