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NetApp Spring Launch 2023

Data storage ready for the modern world As we move into summer 2023, the IT industry is continuing to experience a severe lack of skilled workers, and the economic climate is still uncertain as a result of the conflict in Ukraine. Energy prices remain high, and cyber risks have grown significantly, all of which are wreaking havoc on IT budgets and plans. What’s been announced?⭐️ ASA All SAN Flash Array, offering 6 Nines Data Availability Guarantee!n [...]

NetApp Cloud Backup Service: The Ultimate Guide

In today's digital age, it is more important than ever to have a reliable backup solution in place. NetApp Cloud Backup is a cloud-based backup solution that offers a variety of features and benefits to help you protect your data. In this blog post, we will discuss everything you need to know about NetApp Cloud Backup, including how it works, its features, and its pricing. We will also provide some tips on how to get the most out of NetApp Cloud Backup. How NetApp Cloud Backup WorksNetApp C [...]

How-to: Configure customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption

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Do you have a thing for security? What about long feature names? Have I got something for you… ‘Customer-managed keys for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption’ Yes, this long-awaited feature is finally here. Customer-managed keys (#CMK) for Azure NetApp Files volume encryption gives you the ability to fully control and manage the life cycle, permissions, and security of your encryption keys. In this video, I’ll show you the steps necessary to get started with this gre...

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You may have heard the phrase… “Snapshots are not a substitute for backup.” I agree. Snapshots are a point-in-time, recoverable image of your data. Snapshots are a very useful tool for data protection and recoverability, but they alone are not a complete data protection solution. You also need backup… Azure NetApp Files backup, combined with snapshots and cross-region/zone replication, gives you a complete, cost-effective, and flexible data protection solution withou...

Quick Bytes: Azure NetApp Files backup

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🗺 ** Attention Cartophiles ** 🗺 Have you found yourself wondering which Azure regions have Azure NetApp Files? …or which Azure NetApp Files regions support customer-managed keys (they are available in 33 regions as of yesterday!)? ..or which region-pairs support cross-region replication? Wonder no more and check out this interactive map. You can hover over a region to get more details, click on a region to see cross-region replication pairs, and even filter for different features. 🗺...

NetApp Announces A Whole New Line

NetApp introduces a new line of high-capacity, all-flash storage systems.

NetApp Insight - An Evolved Cloud and Blue XP Recap

The sun rises on a new type of industry event/announcement. We’re a few days out from NetApp’s annual Insight event, and I’ve been sitting with what I consider to be bold claims and somewhat abnormal announcements. There wasn’t an acquisition or new cloud solution that attacks a key customer workload announced (Microsoft, Citrix, many others), and there wasn’t a fancy new piece of hardware unveiled (Apple). Instead, CEO George Kurian opens with a polarizing statement: “Your journey to the clo...

Brisbane VMUG – October 2022

The October 2022 edition of the Brisbane VMUG meeting will be held on Wednesday 12th October at the Cube (QUT) from 5pm – 7pm. It’s sponsored by NetApp and promises to be a great afternoon. Two’s Company, Three’s a Cloud – NetApp, VMware and AWS NetApp has had a strategic relationship with VMware for over 20 years, and with AWS for […]

NetApp Ontap Upgrades Read This Before Proceeding

After doing many NetApp Ontap upgrades, there was one thing that made an upgrade last 6 hours more than it should of, and it’s to do with the serial port and service processor NetApp makes

Installing the ONTAP 9.7 simulator in Fusion 12.1

At the time of writing this 9.8 is available but I’m specifically writing this for someone who is trying to install 9.7 and having problems. Before I get into the actual simulator installation we need to come cover some stuff around VMware Fusion first. With regards to networking, VMware Fusion can provide three different interface […]

Azure NetApp Files + Trident = Dynamic and Persistent Storage for Kubernetes

My eleven year old daughter recently asked me ’the question’. You know the one… “Hey dadda, what’s Kubernetes?” 🔗 How do you explain kubernetes to an eleven year old?! Check out this video to learn how. Brilliant. I am not a Kubernetes expert. I am learning, probably just like you are. Creating resources, tearing down resources, building them again, kubectl-ing, scratching my head, scratching my head some more, rinse and repeat. I can understand how power...

Insomnia? REST with Azure NetApp Files: Part 2 of 3

I know you have all been waiting patiently for part two of this series. I’d like less time to go by in between these multi part blogs but sometimes life just gets in the way. In part one of this series, I showed you how to get started with Insomnia and how to get your ‘bearer token’. Now that we have these two boxes checked, we can begin to query the Azure Management API to get information about our Azure NetApp Files resources. First, I’ll show you how to create a bas...

ONTAP 9.8 has been announced

Timed perfectly with NetApp INSIGHT 2020 is the annual ONTAP payload announcement. Once again, there’s a lot in this payload, so I will simply deliver a list of bulleted sections, addressing as many of the changes as I’m able. I’ll provide additional detail on the ones I feel are the most interesting. For a full […]

Insomnia? REST with Azure NetApp Files: Part 1 of 3

Hello and welcome to the first post in a three part series that will help you get up and running with the Azure REST API. More specifically I’ll show you how to use the Azure API to interact with your Azure NetApp Files resources. Getting started with REST APIs can be a little tricky. There are several components to a REST API call. Combine that with the various types of authentication and things can get pretty overwhelming. Microsoft has chosen to use what is called ‘bearer token...

How to: Enable Snapshot Policies for Azure NetApp Files

But of course, Microsoft and NetApp continue to bring new features and more value to this great service. There is one tiny caveat… at this time, the snapshot policy feature is currently in preview. But don’t worry, the registration process is painless. We’ll have you creating snapshot policies in just a few minutes. As a prerequisite, you’ll need Azure PowerShell installed and connected to your Azure account: Install-Module -Name Az -AllowClobber -Scope CurrentUser Co...

Automatic Alerts for Azure NetApp Files

Controlling cloud spend is a massive challenge for cloud consumers of all sizes. Having good systems in place to monitor resources and provide proper alerting mechanisms when that consumption goes beyond expected levels is critical to any successful cloud deployment. While Azure NetApp Files is a great enterprise grade file service, the Azure metrics that we have to work with today can be a bit limiting when it comes to capacity consumption. One of the current shortcomings is the absence of a...

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NetApp ONTAP 9.7 Simulator Upgrade How To

In this article I’m going to walk you through the steps I used to upgrade my NetApp Simulator from ONTAP 9.6 to the new ONTAP 9.7 RC1 Warning: This is strictly performed on the NetApp

Ansible Username Password Prompt with vars_prompt

If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this: Let’s face it, adding the

Creating NetApp Root Load-Sharing Mirrors with Ansible

Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy