Hi together, NetApp announced yesterday its new storage operating system ONTAP 9.4 and will probably publish it in the next few days. The latest features I would like to present to you: Rapid disk zeroing as an installation engineer, you know that. When you zero systems, you sometimes wait several days until all the disks… Read More »
Hi everyone, today I want to tell you about a project that will cover a large part of the NetApp portfolio. From local snapshots to SVM-DR, to CommVault IntelliSnap for NetApp, to NetApp AltaVault and backup to the cloud. But lets start… First, the customer had a FAS 2552 connected to 7 ESX hosts via… Read More »
Finally it’s time. I have the first NetAppHCI system for testing and playing. The most important first… Yes the NetAppHCI logo lights up as soon as the chassis is powered;) For my test environment, I have four small compute nodes and four small storage nodes. This means that the storage nodes are equipped with 6x… Read More »
On the 29.06.2017, NetApp ONTAP OS version 9.2 as GA (General Availibility) has published its storage. The release Canidate (RC) was available for some time, but many of you shy at the label “Release Canidate” also to engage them. NetApp as a reminder, versions are available also on his RC full production support. But now… Read More »
After NetApp on May 5. July a brand new hyper converged system on the basis of Solidfire has announced today was presented the well-known converged system FlexPod on the basis of SolidFire. But let’s start from the beginning… What is ever FlexPod? FlexPod is a converged system by NetApp and Cisco. And are you now… Read More »
For some time, we´ve been penetrated by Crypto Trojans. Locky or WannaCry have proved the world that simple antivirus cant protect you from all. Most companies quickly notice a large infestation of file services. You will notice encrypted files in nested folders is rarely used to make matters worse less quickly. Which Admin clicks through… Read More »
Hello together, last week NetApp has provided me, through a Distributor, a SolidFire test position to “Play”. The “baby” came in a pre-assembled “travel crib” and was completely wired. Connect only the power, turn, race to the fuse box and securing a make again and there you go. The standard equipment you connect a monitor… Read More »
NetApp MetroCluster over IP? Enthusiasts some NetApp may now cry out. It was always a law Mäßigkeit however, since year and day, that I for the NetApp MetroCluster either need long SAS cable or a fabric in the backend are got, which is exclusively for the MetroCluster available. How is DerSchmitz only on the heretical… Read More »
In one of my last posts I had described that the NetApp AFF A200 seen from a hardware perspective, nothing is as the FÁS 2650. One of the differences is that in the A200 AFF all efficiency mechanisms by default are active. In FAS 2650 you are able to activate inline efficieny afterwards. That is… Read More »