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This solution brief covers the growing threat of ransomware and how to identify, thwart, and remediate this threat using NetApp® SnapshotTM technology. This brief serves as a companion to the technical report TR-4572: The NetApp Solution for Ransomware, which provides a guide to help organizations meet prescribed security objectives for information system confidentiality, integrity, and availability.   Please check here for SB-3938 and here for TR-4572 - The NetApp Solution for Ransomware ... View more

The IT field is well past the “should we, or shouldn’t we?” stage regarding all-flash storage. For nearly every organization, the question is when, not if they will place primary storage workloads on all-flash arrays. Yet, successful migration of storage to all-flash takes planning and knowledge of best practices. This paper helps with the migration process. It offers insights for business success with all-flash storage based on real user experiences from IT Central Station. It covers how to build a business case for all-flash, provides tips on identifying success criteria for your project and highlights the importance of proof- of-concept (POC) testing to compare your alternatives and make sure you can meet your goals while achieving the best value.   For more info, please check here ... View more

FabricPool, first available in ONTAP 9.2, is a NetApp Data Fabric technology that enables automated tiering of data to low-cost object storage tiers either on or off premises. Unlike manual tiering solutions, FabricPool reduces total cost of ownership by automating the tiering of data to lower the cost of storage. It delivers the benefits of cloud economics by tiering to public clouds such as Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as well as to private clouds created with NetApp StorageGRID®. FabricPool is transparent to applications and allows enterprises to take advantage of cloud economics without sacrificing performance or having to rearchitect solutions to leverage storage efficiency. ONTAP supports FabricPool on AFF systems and all-SSD aggregates on FAS systems. ONTAP Select supports FabricPool. NetApp recommends using all-SSD FabricPool aggregates. Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS supports FabricPool on gp2, io1, and st1 EBS volumes. NetApp recommends using SSD EBS volumes with FabricPool. Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure supports Premium (SSD) and Standard (HDD) locally-redundant storage. NetApp recommends using SSD LRS with FabricPool.   For more info, please check here ... View more

NVM Express (NVMe) is a data storage protocol that delivers the fastest response times for business-critical enterprise applications. However, NVMe is more than a storage specification; the broader NVMe over Fabrics protocol encompasses the entire data path, from server to network to storage system. This technical report focuses on building modern SANs on NVMe over Fabrics, especially NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMe/FC, also known as FC-NVMe). This document describes the industry-first NVMe/FC implementation in NetApp® ONTAP®, includes guidelines for SAN design and implementation, and provides links to testing and qualification recommendations.   For more info, please check here ... View more

Overview The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet-standard application-layer protocol for managing devices on IP networks. SNMP can be configured to monitor and manage storage systems and their functions. SNMP is supported by NetApp® storage systems running Data ONTAP® operating in 7- Mode as well as by NetApp® storage systems running clustered Data ONTAP®.   for more info, please check here ... View more

This technical report discusses all the Unified Manager schemas exposed from NetApp®OnCommand® Unified Manager 7.3 and later. It describes the use of various read-only schemas with examples to help end users create content-rich custom reports. Readers should have some knowledge of SQL constructs and should know how to create and integrate custom reports.   For more info, please check here ... View more

Introduction   NetApp® ONTAP® is powerful data management software with native capabilities that include integrated data protection and recovery, efficient cloning, and replication. ONTAP Cloud and ONTAP Select are software-defined storage options that extend the functionality of ONTAP beyond physical AFF and FAS hardware. Specifically, ONTAP Cloud takes control of hyperscaler storage volumes, while ONTAP Select runs in a more traditional virtualization infrastructure. ONTAP Cloud and ONTAP Select deliver the ONTAP feature set across more platforms to address the requirements of public and private cloud users. From a technical standpoint, all of these options are still ONTAP; the difference between Cloud and Select lies in the business requirements. For example, some enterprises are looking to public cloud providers for a less expensive and more flexible disaster recovery capability. ONTAP Cloud delivers a simple and efficient replication capability to make on-premises data available within Amazon AWS or Microsoft. As a further example, some service providers are building secure multitenant services that require integrated backup and restore capability. ONTAP Select can run on existing virtualized infrastructure, allowing the service provider to provide each tenant with their own data management environment. New tenants can be quickly deployed by adding additional ONTAP Select instances. With respect to databases, there is a wide variety of user requirements, including database size, performance requirements, and data protection needs. Known deployments of NetApp storage include everything from a virtualized environment of approximately 6,000 databases running under VMware ESX to a single-instance data warehouse currently sized at 996TB and growing. As a result, there are few clear best practices for configuring an Oracle database on NetApp storage.   For more details, please check here ... View more

Overview Effective monitoring of critical infrastructure is the keystone in maintaining operational readiness and is a key enabler of risk mitigation. Monitoring critical infrastructure for atypical workloads and events can help prevent small issues from becoming outages. NetApp® HCI includes access to the NetApp Active IQ® platform, which is a cloud-based performance monitoring and alerting platform. Active IQ provides a rich set of preconfigured dashboards that displays real-time cluster performance and alerts and that presents a view of historical data   For more info, please check here ... View more

Overview Abstract   This technical report is for customers who plan to deploy Epic on FlexPod systems. It provides a brief overview of the FlexPod architecture for Epic and covers the setup and installation of FlexPod to deploy Epic for healthcare. FlexPod systems deployed to host Epic HyperSpace, InterSystems Caché database, Cogito Clarity analytics and reporting suite, and services servers hosting the Epic application layer provide an integrated platform for a dependable, high-performance infrastructure that can be deployed rapidly. The FlexPod integrated platform is deployed by skilled FlexPod channel partners and is supported by Cisco and NetApp technical assistance centers.   For more info, please check here ... View more

Introduction MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL database used by companies of all sizes across all industries and for a wide variety of applications. These applications include business-critical operational applications for which low latency, high throughput, and continuous availability are crucial. MongoDB is an agile database that uses a flexible document data model so that schemas can change quickly as applications evolve. This database combines the functionality that developers expect from traditional databases, such as secondary indexes, an expressive query language, and strong consistency, with the performance and agility of a NoSQL database. MongoDB is built for scalability, performance, and high availability, scaling from single-server deployments to large, complex, multisite architectures. By leveraging in-memory computing,MongoDB provides high performance for both reads and writes. MongoDB’s native replication andautomated failover enable enterprise-grade reliability and operational flexibility. By deploying MongoDB on NetApp technology, you get consistent microsecond response, backup, and recovery from the cloud, helping you maintain the highest levels of performance and uptime. With the advanced fault recovery features and easy in-service growth capabilities of NetApp solutions, you can meet ever-changing business requirements.   For more info, please check here ... View more

Introduction NetApp FabricPool is an automated storage tiering feature in which active data resides on local high- performance solid-state drives (SSDs), and inactive data is tiered to low-cost object storage. It was first made available in NetApp ONTAP® 9.2 for management of read-only data and has since been enhanced in ONTAP 9.4 to also tier active data. In a database context, you can create a single storage architecture in which the hot data remains on the local storage array. Inactive data such as archived logs, database backups, or even less active database blocks are moved to less expensive object storage. FabricPool is integrated with ONTAP. The tiering process is fully automated with multiple policy-based management options. Apart from the performance characteristics of the object storage layer, FabricPool is transparent to application and database configuration. No architectural changes are required, and you can continue managing your database and application environment from the central ONTAP storage system.   For more info, please check here ... View more

Overview FabricPool, first available in ONTAP 9.2, is a NetApp Data Fabric technology that enables automated tiering of data to low-cost object storage tiers either on or off premises. Unlike manual tiering solutions, FabricPool reduces total cost of ownership by automating the tiering of data to lower the cost of storage. It delivers the benefits of cloud economics by tiering to public clouds such as Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as well as to private clouds created with NetApp StorageGRID® Webscale. FabricPool is transparent to applications and allows enterprises to take advantage of cloud economics without sacrificing performance or having to rearchitect solutions to leverage storage efficiency. ONTAP supports FabricPool on AFF systems and all-SSD aggregates on FAS systems. ONTAP Select supports FabricPool. NetApp recommends using all-SSD FabricPool aggregates. ONTAP Cloud supports FabricPool on gp2, io1, and st1 EBS volumes.   For more info, please check here ... View more

1 Challenges of Big Data Analytics Big data requires big analytics, big bandwidth, and big content technologies. Organizations leverage big data by collecting and analyzing large amounts of raw data, such as point-of-sale data, credit card transactions, log files, and machine and security data. To harness the maximum value of big data, organizations must transform their raw data into valuable business information. This essential business driver requires tools that can process very large amounts of both structured and unstructured data. It also requires data management software that is capable of hybrid web-scale deployments, is highly available and resilient, and provides the data management capabilities that enterprises require. Apache Hadoop and its growing ecosystem of products enable organizations to extract valuable insights from large volumes of diverse data that cannot be analyzed with relational databases. With these insights, people across the organization can ask the right questions and get better answers, supporting more informed decisions that help promote business transformation. However, because initial Apache Hadoop/Spark deployments often rely on commodity servers with internal drives, infrastructure resilience and agility issues prevent organizations from realizing the full benefits of these deployments. For example, a single-disk failure can degrade performance of the entire cluster. Managing disk replacements is continual and error-prone. In addition, triple file replication and failure redistribution models increase network costs and complexity. For many enterprise customers, Hadoop is a shared-nothing, massively parallel data-processing platform that emphasizes cost effectiveness and replication of data availability. Most enterprises have used traditional databases to manage their rapidly growing need to process data and extract business value. Sometimes, however, the costs of these solutions have been so high that they cannot afford to either house or process the data. In other cases, the solutions are not suitable for new data types such as unstructured data or key value pairs.   For more info, please check here ... View more

What is NetApp Active IQ and what is it used for? Answer: NetApp Active IQ is a cloud service that provides predictive and proactive insights that help you optimize operations across the hybrid cloud. Active IQ displays information about your NetApp systems by aggregating telemetry data from NetApp AutoSupport®, which is a predictive technology built into 11TP P11T NetApp ONTAP®, SolidFire®, E-Series, StorageGRID® Webscale, and NetApp Cloud Backup systems. 11TPT11P NetApp telemetry services work by accessing only your system’s metadata. The underlying information stored on NetApp systems is never accessed or transferred. P11T P11T T11PTP11 As a NetApp customer, you should understand what data is collected, how the data is transferred to NetApp, and how NetApp keeps it secure and private.     For more info, please check here ... View more

Solution Overview ONTAP Select Deploy is an essential tool used to create and monitor ONTAP Select clusters. Additionally, it provides a mediator service that enables high availability for two-node Select clusters. Deploy is provided as a virtual machine (VM) that runs on either the VMware ESXi or KVM hypervisors. In certain small-form-factor deployments, the hosts used for Select do not have enough resources to run both a Select node and a Deploy VM. In those instances, an Intel NUC can be used to run Deploy as a low-cost, small-form-factor standalone appliance.   For more info, please check here ... View more

NetApp SANtricity Cloud Connector is a host-based Linux application that allows you to perform full-block and file-based backup and recovery of NetApp E-Series volumes to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), NetApp StorageGRID storage, and NetApp Cloud Backup storage. Available for installation on Red Hat and SUSE Linux platforms, SANtricity Cloud Connector is a packaged solution (.bin file). After it is installed, you can configure SANtricity Cloud Connector to perform backup and restore jobs for E-Series volumes to your existing Amazon S3, StorageGRID, or Cloud Backup account. All jobs performed through SANtricity Cloud Connector use RESTful APIs.   More info please check here ... View more

This video provides a step by step guide to troubleshooting why the SnapCenter server cannot discover the Linux server that has the Oracle Plugin installed     To learn more about NetApp's technologies that help increase storage efficiency, please visit: http://www.netapp.com/us/company/lead...   For more discussions on Data ONTAP, OnCommand, Shelves and Drives, SnapX Products/Software, Storage Systems, visit our community at:  https://forums.netapp.com/community/s...   Our Official YouTube Home page - https://www.youtube.com/NetAppKBTV Our Official knowledgebase site: https://kb.netapp.com/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/netappassist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetAppassist   ... View more

To learn more about NetApp's technologies that help increase storage efficiency, please visit: http://www.netapp.com/us/company/lead...   For more discussions on Data ONTAP, OnCommand, Shelves and Drives, SnapX Products/Software, Storage Systems, visit our community at:  https://community.netapp.com   Our Official YouTube Home page - https://www.youtube.com/NetAppKBTV Our Official knowledgebase site: https://kb.netapp.com/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/netappassist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetAppassist   ... View more

This demo provides the key differences between NMSDK and OnCommand API Services.   To learn more about NetApp's technologies that help increase storage efficiency, please visit: http://www.netapp.com/us/company/lead...   For more discussions on Data ONTAP, OnCommand, Shelves and Drives, SnapX Products/Software, Storage Systems, visit our community at:  https://forums.netapp.com/community/s...   Our Official YouTube Home page - https://www.youtube.com/NetAppKBTV Our Official knowledgebase site: https://kb.netapp.com/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/netappassist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetAppassist   ... View more

FabricPool feature allows user to seamlessly tier the inactive data reported in performance tier to supported capacity tier. Watch the demo to understand the FabricPool feature support to configure the capacity tier and supported tiering policy using System Manager 9.4   For more info, visit https://docs.netapp.com           To learn more about NetApp's technologies that help increase storage efficiency, please visit: http://www.netapp.com/us/company/lead...   For more discussions on Data ONTAP, OnCommand, Shelves and Drives, SnapX Products/Software, Storage Systems, visit our community at:  https://forums.netapp.com/community/s...   Our Official YouTube Home page - https://www.youtube.com/NetAppKBTV Our Official knowledgebase site: https://kb.netapp.com/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/netappassist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetAppassist   ... View more

NVMe protocol configuration and management is made very simple using System Manager 9.4. Watch the demo to understand how end-users can configure NVMe protocol, map namespaces to host and get the performance statistics for the workload generated using System Manager 9.4. For more info, visit https://docs.netapp.com   To learn more about NetApp's technologies that help increase storage efficiency, please visit: http://www.netapp.com/us/company/lead...   For more discussions on Data ONTAP, OnCommand, Shelves and Drives, SnapX Products/Software, Storage Systems, visit our community at: https://forums.netapp.com/community/s...   Our Official YouTube Home page - https://www.youtube.com/NetAppKBTV Our Official knowledgebase site: https://kb.netapp.com/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/netappassist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NetAppassist   ... View more

Executive Summary Microsoft Exchange Server is a widely used messaging platform for email communication, group scheduling, and calendaring for collaboration purposes. Failure at any level of storage, server, or networking could result in unacceptable operational and financial losses. Therefore, data protection, disaster recovery, and high availability should be carefully planned to enable quick recovery with little or no data loss. This guide delivers best practice guidance for using NetApp SnapCenter technology. SnapCenter tightly integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server to enable application-consistent, online, Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)–based backups and point-in-time (PIT) or up-to-the-minute (UTM) restores of Exchange databases.   For more info, please check here ... View more

NetApp SolidFire Remote Replication Overview Data availability is one of the most crucial issues in data management. When data is not available, it adversely affects the enterprise operation until that data is restored. There are several ways to protect data availability in the event of hardware, software, or power failure. Backups and redundant hardware help to improve data availability during hardware issues or failures. However, the process of creating and storing backups should be reliable and quick. Replication duplicates data between storage systems to facilitate data availability during disaster recovery.   For more info, please check here ... View more