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Have a technical question about NetApp? Join our chat Hands-on chat group,

Join in our Technical chat at https://t.me/HandsOnNetApp via the Telegram app or access it via the Website with a Browser. Do you have trouble and need help? Help us to help you: How to ask for help with a Technical issue Do your own homework first. Write to the group the same way as if you open a support case with a vendor. Write a draft in an MS Word document first before posting your…

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Dos and Don'ts in the Hands-On NetApp Group

Dos and Don’ts in the Hands-On NetApp Group

These are the rules for the Hands-on NetApp telegram group. This group is for NetApp engineers & admins only. This chat does not represent official NetApp company. To keep the community helpful and friendly, all members must follow these rules: * Ban~ Warning Rules * Technical discussions only!* No piracy: Distribution of pirated serial numbers, licenses, distributions of books, etc.* Exam…

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Dos and Don'ts in the Hands-On NetApp Group

Dos and Don’ts in the Hands-On NetApp Group

These are the rules for the Hands-on NetApp telegram group. This group is for NetApp engineers & admins only. This chat does not represent official NetApp company. Dos Technical discussions only! Don’ts The group is not the place for “FUD”, Flooding, News discussion, “Holly wars”This is not the place for people from other vendors or those who are not familiar with NetApp technologyThis is not…

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Have a technical question? Join our chat

Have a technical question about NetApp? Join our chat Hands-on chat group,

Join in our Technical chat https://t.me/HandsOnNetApp. Have trouble and need help? Help us to help you: How to ask for help with a Technical issue Do your own homework first.Write to the group the same way as if you open a support case with a vendor.Write a draft in a word document first before posting your question to the group.Read it and make sure another person who will be reading it will…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 13

Part 13. Support, Gartner, Other New

How to measure storage performance

SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), hardcore 4h!

Technical Support

Flat and predictable support pricing

OneCollect available in a container and now sends info to Active IQ

You can buy managed services so Firmware upgrades on your storage will be managed for you

How to…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 12

Part 12. Containers & Automation

NetApp Kubernetes Services (NKS)

At start NKS was available in public clouds, then NetApp added NKS to on-prem NetApp HCI. And on VMworld 2019 in Las Vegas, before Insight 2019 NetApp announced NKS on VMware (no NetApp HCI platform needed).

Now supported on Azure NetApp Files

NKS with FlexPod

NKS visibility in Cloud Insights

NetApp HCI + NKS: DevOps End-to-End Pipeline with Trident

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 11

Part 11. New Solutions

New Solutions

Healthcare and Automotive AI solutions validated ONTAP AI

Design and recipe using NKS with rapid deployment for CI/CD pipeline use case and both public and private clouds

End-to-end DevOps CI/CD on NetApp HCI

FlexPod validated as a deployment target for NetApp Kubernetes Service

SAP HANA validated on FlexPod (Memory-Accelerated FlexPod) including Optane memory and SnapCenterdata…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 10

Part 10. Cloud

SaaS Backup SaaS backup for Salesforce

Now available in Salesforce marketplace

Cloud Volumes

Azure NetApp Files certified for AzureGov region and FedRAMP

SAP HANA now certified on ANF

Kerberos and ACL for Azure NetApp Files (ANF) and Cloud Volumes Service (CVS) with NFS v4.1

Cloud Manager supports NKS & Cloud Compliance

Cloud Manager to Deploy Trident and Cloud Volumes ONTAP

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 9

Part 9. NAbox & Harvest

NAbox

With Grafana you can visualize performance, space & other metrics from ONTAP & Unified Manager stored in Graphite. Download v2.5.1 (2019-09-08).

Harvest 1.6:

NetApp Harvest collects data from ONTAP & Unified Manager and sends it over to Graphite. Harvest is part of NABox.

Harvest Extension Manager

Extension for NFS connections

Extension for SnapMirror replications

Extension…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 8

Part 8. Lab on demand

Lab on demand

New labs for NetApp partners: NKS on NetApp HCI, MAX Data, VSC 9.6 with vSphere 6.7, Active IQ Unified Manager 9.6

Lab on demand for Customers

Even if you are not NetApp customer yet, you can test NetApp products:

Storage Tiering with FabricPool

Enterprise Application Protection in the Data Fabric with ONTAP

Understanding Trident

Others

https://www.netapp.com/us/try-and-buy/…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 7

Part 7. Keystone

Keystone

NetApp Launches On-Prem Data Center Storage as a Service:

Cloud-like pay-as-you-go Storage

Share risks with the Customer

Guarantees

Performance

Availability & Efficiency

With real Balance sheet

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/storage/netapp-launches-prem-data-center-storage-service

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwebster/2019/10/31/netapp-insight-2019–where-is-the-last-big-independe…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 6

Part 6. StorageGRID

StorageGRID v11.3

Tier to Azure Blob and back:

Automatic data Tiering to Azure Blob with Cloud Storage Pools

Frees up on-premises object storage

Azure Archive Storage tier is fully supported by the latest release of StorageGRID

StorageGRID SG1000 1U admin node & load balancer

All flash object storage based on EF570 & SG6024

Mu…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 5

Part 5. AFF, FAS, ASA, ONTAP

AFF & FAS

AFF400, FAS8300, FAS8700. All of those systems basically the same platform but with a different number of Memory & CPU cores. FAS systems also have FlashCache module onboard for read caching. All three requires 9.7 RC1 and have the latest Intel Cascade Lake processors. And that gives us hope we might see Optane as cache as NetApp showed as part of its vision on Insight 2017:

Rea…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 4

Part 4. Active IQ

Active IQ 2.0

AI learning algorithms based on customer base wisdom provides better insights about risks

APIs with Active IQ

Now you cannot just monitor but take actions and fix risks with Active IQ (which happens through UM)

It also decrease “nose”: Active IC trying to find the root of the problem and solve those problems first which will fix majority of your problems: let’s say you have 100…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 3

Part 3. Rubrik & Veeam

NetApp & Rubrik

NetApp & Rubrik announced collaboration. First StorageGRID can be a target for Rubrik archives. And second Rubrik now supports NetApp SnapDiff API. SnapDiff API is a technology in ONTAP which compares two snaps and gives a list of files changed so Rubrik can copy only changed files. While Rubrik is not the first in working with NetApp SnapDiff APIs, others like Catalogic,…

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas?

What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas?

MAX Data 1.5

Support for ONTAP 9.6 GA and later releases

Support for FAS storage systems or ONTAP Select systems running ONTAP 9.7 besides AFF storage systems

Resizing application memory allocation

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7

Support for local snapshots on server-only systems

Significant performance improvements with more I/o, less latency: 5.4M I/o 4KB READ @ 12.5usec latency

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What you might miss about NetApp from Aug-Nov 2019, including Insight in Las Vegas? Part 1

Part 1. E-Series

Some competitors might say NetApp do not innovate anymore. Well, read this article and answer yourself whether it is true, or it is just yet another shameless marketing.

E-Series Performance

End-to-End NVMe with EF600 – More I/o (x2 times more than EF570), less latency:

Combines extreme IOPS (up to 2M), response times of less than 100 microseconds, and up to 44GBps

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