It’s not common knowledge, but NetApp actually introduced the concept of a snapshot to the industry, the ability to quickly and efficiently record the state of a volume at a point in time, as part of ONTAP way back in 1993. In fact, many of ONTAP’s most valuable features are built on snapshots, including clones. … Read more
SolidFire is proud to announce the release of a new Command Line Interface tool. We call it “sfcli“. It can run anywhere Python runs, so your Mac, Windows, and Linux machines are all fair game now. Click here to install the CLI from the SolidFire github repo. This easy-to-use tool enables the following: Quickly install … Read more
On May 25 the SolidFire Host Integrations team released version 1.4 of the SDK in three languages. Get more info or download them here: Java SDK Python SDK .NET SDK So – what’s new? This release supports SolidFire Element OS versions 7 through 9.1 Added new parameters to existing calls: AddDrives – forceDuringUpgrade AddNodes – … Read more
One of the most exciting paradigm shifts coming out of cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes is the idea that users should be able to consume the resources they need when they need them without having to get permission from anyone else. This helps break down a large barrier that has traditionally existed between the consumers of … Read more
It’s almost time for OpenStack Summit again, this time in Boston (May 8th – 11th). We have a ton of new material ready to share, including a big announcement around one of our storage platforms. We have also put a lot of effort in to producing some great sessions talks, so have a look at … Read more
April 7th saw the release of the newest version of the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin (nDVP). There are many bug fixes and enhancements in this release, with the most visible probably being the naming scheme. You’ll notice that we have adopted a scheme similar to what Docker themselves are using. Even though we often abbreviate … Read more
Introduction In this post we will show how to deploy a “stateless” Apache Spark cluster on Kubernetes. Spark is a fast analytics engine designed for large-scale data processing. Furthermore, we will then run analytics queries against data sitting in S3, in our case StorageGRID Webscale. We use S3 as the data source/target because it is an elegant … Read more
Spring is sprung, and that means that event season is here again. NetApp is gearing up for a strong showing at some of the top open source gatherings of the year, and the team here at thePub is in overdrive mode to pull together our new releases, produce some demos, and get things lined up … Read more
In this post we will show how to deploy a containerized MongoDB replica-set using StatefulSets on Kubernetes with NetApp Trident and underlying SolidFire or ONTAP storage. It is important to understand the concept of StatefulSets before we go further, if you do not yet know about StatefulSets you can go through this StatefulSet tutorial. MongoDB is no … Read more
Without doubt, security is one of the most important concerns for your enterprise – and so should it be for your OpenStack cloud. Encryption not only helps to protect your data, but also ensure compliance. Starting with the Ocata release of OpenStack, the NetApp Cinder driver supports NetApp’s software-based Volume Encryption (NVE) which allows you … Read more