Behind the Scenes: Episode 92 – FabricPool Deep Dive

Welcome to the Episode 92, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

In Epsiode 63, we spoke with FabricPool PM Arun Raman about what FabricPool was. This week, we invited the FabricPool lifeguard – John Lantz – to give us a deeper look at the cloud-enabling technology. We also welcomed ONTAP Senior Vice President, Octavian Tanase (@octav) and ONTAP’s Chief Architect, Ravi Kavuri, to give us the value prop and the business decisions that went into developing FabricPools.

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 91 – Learning to Code, with Ashley McNamara

Welcome to the Episode 91, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we chat with developer advocate, Ashley McNamara (@ashleymcnamara) of Pivotal to talk about how storage administrators (and pretty much anyone) should be learning to code. Ashley also gives us places to look for resources for aspiring developers and scripters to be successful. Feel free to check out her Git repository here:

http://ashleymcnamara.github.io/learn_to_code/

And her Gopher work here:

https://gopherize.me/

Finding the Podcast

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Also, if you don’t like using iTunes or SoundCloud, we just added the podcast to Stitcher.

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I also recently got asked how to leverage RSS for the podcast. You can do that here:

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 90 – ONTAP Performance Enhancements, including QoS Minimums

Welcome to the Episode 90, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we invited SAN and Performance TME Mike Peppers (@NTAPFLIGuy) to discuss the new performance enhancements in ONTAP 9.2!

Join us as we talk about QoS minimums, balanced LUN placement and more!

Finding the Podcast

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Also, if you don’t like using iTunes or SoundCloud, we just added the podcast to Stitcher.

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I also recently got asked how to leverage RSS for the podcast. You can do that here:

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The official NetApp blog is here:

https://newsroom.netapp.com/blogs/tech-ontap-podcast-ontap-performance-enhancements/

You can listen here:

You can also now find us on YouTube. (The uploads are sporadic and we don’t go back prior to Episode 85):

Behind the Scenes: Episode 88 – Migrating to ONTAP, FlexGroup volumes

Welcome to the Episode 88, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we invited Hadrian Baron of NetApp’s migration team to talk about moving from 7-Mode and competitor storage over to clustered ONTAP, as well as the advancements made in the simplicity and speed of moving there. We also discuss multiprotocol NAS challenges and FlexGroup volumes and their benefits.

Finding the Podcast

The podcast is all finished and up for listening. You can find it on iTunes or SoundCloud or by going to techontappodcast.com.

Also, if you don’t like using iTunes or SoundCloud, we just added the podcast to Stitcher.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tech-ontap-podcast?refid=stpr

I also recently got asked how to leverage RSS for the podcast. You can do that here:

http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:164421460/sounds.rss

You can listen here:

You can also now find us on YouTube. (The uploads are sporadic and we don’t go back prior to Episode 85):

Behind the Scenes: Episode 86 – Veeam 9.5 Update 2

Welcome to the Episode 86, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

We wrap up “Release Week” with an episode on Veeam’s new release with Veeam Technical Evangelist/NetApp A-Team member Michael Cade! (@michaelcade1)

Find out what new goodness is in Veeam’s latest release and get a rundown of what Veeam actually is. For the official blog:

https://newsroom.netapp.com/blogs/tech-ontap-podcast-episode-86-veeam-9-5-update-2/

Finding the Podcast

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 84 – StorageGRID WebScale 10.4

Welcome to the Episode 84, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

In case you didn’t notice, we’ve been on a bit of a hiatus the past two weeks. First, I had my appendix removed and then vacation. Then, we recorded episode 84 and had it ready to go for Friday, but were informed we had to wait until Monday because that’s when the release shipped. But, we’re taking care of you this week – we have THREE episodes lined up. Stay tuned for episodes to drop on Thursday and Friday of the week of May 8, 2017!

We’re kicking off the week with StorageGRID 10.4 with the StorageGRID Director, Duncan Moore (@NCDunc). Not only do we chat about the 10.4 release, (which is available Monday, May 8 2017) but we also talked a bit about 10.3 (which we forgot to cover) and the overall state of the object storage market today.

What is StorageGRID WebScale?

The StorageGRID Webscale system is a distributed object storage system that uses a grid architecture to distribute copies of object data throughout the system. The result is a system where data is protected from loss and continuously available.

Finding the Podcast

The podcast is all finished and up for listening. You can find it on iTunes or SoundCloud or by going to techontappodcast.com.

Also, if you don’t like using iTunes or SoundCloud, we just added the podcast to Stitcher.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tech-ontap-podcast?refid=stpr

I also recently got asked how to leverage RSS for the podcast. You can do that here:

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What the heck happened to last week’s Tech ONTAP podcast?

Last week, you may or may not have noticed we didn’t do a Tech ONTAP podcast. Generally, we give a little heads up when this happens. However, the saga of the missing podcast episode started around 10PM on Sunday night for me…

I started feeling like I was having mild pain on the right side of my abdomen. It felt like a gas pain, but it was sore to the touch. Because I am a product of the information age, I googled “appendix location” to find out if it was located where I was having issues, and it was. However, it wasn’t severe, so I decided to try to sleep it off.

Around 2:30AM, I woke up and decided it was probably appendicitis. I told my wife I was going to the ER. She offered to take me, but we had a sleeping 3.5 year old, so I drove myself. After a few tests, I got confirmation and I texted my colleagues that the podcast would have to be recorded without me. However, it got postponed instead.

 

I had my surgery and am recovering nicely, but the podcast had to be moved to another week, as I was *also* going on vacation that week.

Bummer, but there’s the reason. 🙂

This week, don’t expect a podcast on Friday either – instead, we are publishing on Monday, May 8 to correspond with a special announcement for StorageGrid WebScale, so stay tuned… Also, expect the postponed podcast to appear soon, as well – we got a very special guest to join us!

Behind the Scenes: Episode 83 – OnCommand Unified Manager 7.2

Welcome to the Episode 83, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we chat with Philip Bachman and Yossi Weihs about the new OnCommand Unified Manager update. Find out what’s new and why Unified Manager can truly claim to be a Unified Manager!

What is OnCommand Unified Manager?

OnCommand Unified Manager is NetApp’s monitoring software package. It was the next evolution of Data Fabric Manager (DFM) and allows storage administrators to monitor capacity, performance and other storage events. It also allows you to set up notifications and run scripts when thresholds have been reached. It can be deployed on Linux or Windows in OCUM 7.2, as well as a standard OVA in ESXi.

Finding the Podcast

The podcast is all finished and up for listening. You can find it on iTunes or SoundCloud or by going to techontappodcast.com.

Also, if you don’t like using iTunes or SoundCloud, we just added the podcast to Stitcher.

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I also recently got asked how to leverage RSS for the podcast. You can do that here:

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 82 – DockerCon Preview Featuring nDVP and Trident

Welcome to the Episode 82, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, it’s just Justin and Andrew chatting about the upcoming Docker conference in Austin, TX, as well as updates to the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin and Trident. We get a bit rambuncuous on this one and in honor of Easter, we leave plenty of Easter eggs!

If you’ll be in Austin for DockerCon or Boston for Red Hat Summit or OpenStack Summit, be sure to look for Andrew and the rest of the NetApp team!

For information on NetApp Docker Volume Plugin, Trident and more, go to the Pub:

http://netapp.io

Finding the Podcast

The podcast is all finished and up for listening. You can find it on iTunes or SoundCloud or by going to techontappodcast.com.

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http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:164421460/sounds.rss

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Behind the Scenes: Episode 80 – NetApp MyAutosupport Dashboard Refresh

Welcome to the Episode 80, part of the continuing series called “Behind the Scenes of the NetApp Tech ONTAP Podcast.”

This week on the podcast, we brought in Sudip Hore (@sudiphore) to talk about the new and improved MyAutosupport Dashboard.  Join us as we discuss the new predictive and proactive features and what’s coming in the future.

Also, check out the blog I wrote on it here:
https://whyistheinternetbroken.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/new-myautosupport-dashboard/.

Finding the Podcast

The podcast is all finished and up for listening. You can find it on iTunes or SoundCloud or by going to techontappodcast.com.

Also, if you don’t like using iTunes or SoundCloud, we just added the podcast to Stitcher.

http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tech-ontap-podcast?refid=stpr

I also recently got asked how to leverage RSS for the podcast. You can do that here:

http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:164421460/sounds.rss

You can listen here: