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I am lucky enough this week to be over in Sunnyvale, CA at my 6th ETL which is the NetApp A Team event. It also happens to be the week NetApp have their Spring 2019 release event. Last year I spoke about their Spring Launch around a month earlier. That release saw updates focused on ONTAP 9.4, Security, FabricPool and FlexGroups. Here is a link to that post from last year. This year I wanted to summarise some of the cool and important announcements NetApp have made this week. It was around 5 years ago now that we heard the term “NetApp Data Fabric” butRead More →

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ONTAP 9.5 went GA a few weeks back, waking up this morning to see the weekly digest from Anton Gostev mentioning the support for ONTAP 9.5 with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4a. This will not support the new feature released with ONTAP 9.5 synchronous SnapMirror. I have been preaching the powers of NetApp & Veeam for a few years now, but if you have not seen the power of the integration between the two vendors then I am going to summarise everything in this post here today. Explorer Let’s start with the free stuff you can do with Veeam in a NetApp ONTAPRead More →

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“NetApp ONTAP Select is the software-defined version of ONTAP deployed on customers’ choice of commodity servers and hypervisors.”  First, I must introduce NetApp ONTAP Select a Software Defined Storage play allowing for ONTAP to be leveraged on commodity hardware and not requiring FAS hardware. Before Select, NetApp had released a product called ONTAP Edge a similar use case but limited to VMware.   Edge was great for me from a test and development point of view, I didn’t have the power or budget to be able to run a full blown FAS in my home lab, so Edge gave me that possibility rather than relying onRead More →

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With the recent GA release of Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4, the next storage integration also arrived, leveraging the Universal Storage API that was released late 2017 the list continues to grow. Here is an overview of the integration points previously I wrote about. Functionality is covered in the post linked above, I wanted to take this time to highlight the simple process of getting your NetApp HCI or SolidFire storage added within your Veeam Backup & Replication console. Before you begin you need to make sure you have added your vSphere environment this will unlock the Storage Infrastructure tab. This week someRead More →

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Ok, so I thought I would let the dust settle from a very hectic week in Las Vegas last week. It was the annual conference from NetApp, NetApp Insight and it was the US edition and later in the year we will be heading down to Barcelona for the European event. This Insight was a special one for me as it marked the 5-year anniversary of becoming a member of the NetApp A Team. I have been working with NetApp technologies for the most part of my career, probably around 11 years or so now, I wrote this last year to mark the 10 yearsRead More →

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Previously I touched on a product called OnCommand Insight, not a strict NetApp only monitoring tool but the ability to pool all the infrastructure stack and being able to provide insight into that, this could be based on chargeback, monitoring to make sure that the systems are functioning as they should be to avoid end user disruption and also being able to leverage the tool for capacity planning and management. Moving on now to Cloud Insights, this new offering from NetApp is much more welcome because I believe this will open the door to similar capabilities mentioned above but at a much more affordable price.Read More →

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I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview of the session that was to be delivered to the SFD16 delegates in Boston. Coming from a NetApp background I have been very impressed by NetApp OnCommand Insight as a product throughout the years, yet the frustrating thing was how all of that information and data was only available at an absolute premium to the top companies or largest enterprise customers around the world. This made or makes me sad. The “insight” see what I did there that this tool can gather is AMAZING! It’s not limited to only NetApp storage it can gather information aboutRead More →

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It feels like only now my feet are just touching the ground after a busy month so far with VeeamON and this event, I wanted to get some content out there based on the visit to NetApp for the 5th year ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) I wanted to go back to some feature announcements that NetApp made at the beginning of May. This is something we were lucky to hear about a few weeks back. I think it’s fair to say NetApp have really pulled things back in the industry. Maybe they did lose their way and maybe they grew too fast for aRead More →

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This morning on the final day of NetApp Insight 2017 in Las Vegas, it was announced in the General Session that Veeam would be added to the NetApp global price list. Here is the executive blog from Veeam – https://www.veeam.com/executive-blog/direct-integration-with-netapp-ontap.html From my point of view being a bit of a NetApp fanboi this is pretty special, we have some pretty deep integration with NetApp ONTAP systems today already but now to bundle Veeam licensing with any ONTAP solution and allowing NetApp sales and partners to easily order this bundle from one location. It’s not just about that integration though, we still have some other stickyRead More →

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This morning in the General Session at NetApp Insight 2017 in Las Vegas, NetApp announced ONTAP 9.3 In todays IT world that is ever-changing there are a number of issue areas that most companies are facing. Shrinking pool of admin resources Data Center costs Security Data mobility These issues really play into the overarching vision from NetApp the Data Fabric by offering the following as well as ONTAP being able to aleviate some of the challenges above. Simplicity Automated Efficiencies Security Enhancements Performance Optimizations FlexGroup Volumes The first area that is worth mentioning is the FlexGroup volumes. FlexGroup volumes offer 2-6 times the performance forRead More →