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It’s the end of October and you know what that means: 20.10 is here!
As we approach the tail end of 2020, it has been a year of surprises. Some that no one ever saw coming: who would have thought we’d all be working from home for as long as it has been? And others that have been way more pleasant: Project Astra launched its Beta...
Advanced Topic: Information gathering and dynamic use with na_ontap_info
Trident, Prometheus and PromQL – sample queries to monitor Trident and its volumes
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have probably heard about Prometheus and Grafana. Both are great tools to implement a monitoring framework that is visually descriptive and powerful. Trident provides a set of Prometheus metrics that you can use to obtain...
Configure StorageGRID Ansible project on AWX
Ansible is a simple yet powerful IT automation engine that helps users automates day-to-day repetitive tasks. Adding Ansible Towers or AWX to this powerful engine will give users role-based access to perform tasks and leverage other features like scheduling, creating...
Instant App-Consistent Snapshots on Azure NetApp Files
Moving demanding enterprise applications to the cloud often exposes you to highly complex challenges. Whether you're dealing with performance and latency limitations or developing your own tools to protect critical data, there are serious issues to struggle with. Do...
All Under One Roof: Importing SAN Volumes with ontap-san in Trident
One of the new 20.07 features that I’m interested in is ontap-san imports. For a while now, users of ONTAP clusters have been looking for a way to bring preexisting SAN volumes into their Kubernetes clusters through Trident. Importing existing data stores as...
A Word to the Wise – It Might Be Time to Upgrade Trident
Now is as good a time as ever to move to the latest Trident release. The team is committed to delivering four releases in every calendar year. Each release builds on top of the previous one, providing improved feature support and enhanced capabilities that aim to make...
Summertime Fun In the Sun with Trident 20.07
I always look forward to summer. There’s something about the heat and the long days that makes me realize I failed at keeping up with most of my fitness resolutions from New Year’s. In all fairness, social distancing did play a part this year! That hasn’t deterred the...