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S2S3 Feeder for distributed NAS to S3 copying

2026-11-01 00:00 12 minute read

S2S3 Feeder offloads some of the work managing Rclone replication for larger NAS shares. This post shows how I do it and a simple walk-through with NFSv3 as ...

S2S3 v0.3.0 adds native Windows x64 client with SMB 3 support

2026-10-29 00:00 1 minute read

S2S3 adds native Windows client with SMB 3 support

New EPA 4.1 and Victoria Logs S3 tiering feature

2026-10-26 00:00 11 minute read

What is new in E-Series Performance Analyzer 4.1.0 and a look at Victoria Logs' S3 tiering (preview)

S2S3 - NAS Share to S3 copy utility

2026-10-22 00:00 13 minute read

S2S3 - what it is, what it does, how and why

Elasticsearch 9.5 snapshots with Versity S3 and E-Series

2026-10-15 00:00 2 minute read

Few hundred TB and no money for scale-out S3? Not a problem, because VGW!

Custom embeddings for StorageGRID with Instaclustr OpenSearch based on Kompromise

2026-10-14 00:00 9 minute read

How to connect StorageGRID with Instaclustr OpenSearch to create seamless AI pipeline for almost free

Dump Elasticsearch 9.5 snapshots to shared NetApp filesystem

2026-10-14 00:00 5 minute read

If you won't use S3 and want to keep using POSIX, try the other other shared filesystem

Auto-generate vector embeddings for StorageGRID using Instaclustr OpenSearch

2026-10-13 00:00 9 minute read

We walk through setup and generating embeddings for AI and search

Kompromise, SGII, StorageGRID and Instaclustr OpenSearch

2026-10-08 00:00 12 minute read

We could always send notifications to the cloud, but now there's SGII which helps us do it better

Feed StorageGRID 12 data to Elasticsearch 9 indexes with Kompromise

2026-10-03 00:00 19 minute read

This is about using Kompromise to get StorageGRID object data into Elasticsearch (and OpenSearch, if you can get it to work)

Using Kompromise Webhook for automated S3 log indexing

2026-10-02 00:00 6 minute read

Another use case for Kompromise Webhook - notifications for automated log ingestion

Kompromise - demo stack with Webhooks, S3 caching and indexing for NetApp StorageGRID

2026-09-29 00:00 9 minute read

Personal log documenting the Kompromise journey - final setup

Improved Kompromise webhook for NetApp StorageGRID

2026-09-27 00:00 9 minute read

Personal log documenting the Kompromise journey - concretely, Webhook component improvements and its background

OpenSharing E-Series data using Assume Role With WebIdentity

2026-09-24 00:00 5 minute read

Short post that explores another win for the thinking E-Series user

YugabyteDB with NetApp EF-Series storage

2026-09-21 00:00 15 minute read

We walk through TFM and look for tips and tricks relevant to EF-Series

DuckDB Quack server with NetApp E-Series

2026-09-14 00:00 9 minute read

What changes and what stays the same, plus setup and anecdotal performance tests

The elusive data mobility for tables with OpenSharing, StorageGRID, E-Series

2026-09-08 00:00 5 minute read

As we all know, data sharing in hybrid cloud is a solved problem thanks to S3. Here's yet another example.

OpenSharing Iceberg tables on NetApp StorageGRID and E-Series

2026-09-07 00:00 4 minute read

Run OpenSharing server using the S3 keys that still work the same way - OpenSharing uses the S3 key to generate static presigned URLs for Delta tables and vo...

AI and analytics in hybrid cloud with Alluxio and NetApp StorageGRID

2026-09-04 00:00 7 minute read

Solve performance and data management in hybrid cloud use cases

Lakekeeper with NetApp StorageGRID

2026-09-03 00:00 6 minute read

Why Lakekeeper with NetApp StorageGRID

AWS buys DuckLabs and about DuckDB with NetApp storage

2026-08-31 00:00 13 minute read

Good move for AWS, DuckLabs and users, bad news for Spark. Also, why StorageGRID and E-Series for DuckDB

Local agentic RAG with (only) NetApp StorageGRID S3

2026-08-28 00:00 14 minute read

The post discusses the trend of hosting AI-related persistent data for agentic RAG on S3 object stores

Starfish Storage for better StorageGRID and BeeGFS manageability

2026-08-27 00:00 5 minute read

This post is a simple overview of features and benefits Starfish Storage brings to BeeGFS and StorageGRID users

AWS S3 Files, checkpointing with nvCOMP

2026-08-26 00:00 4 minute read

Do they matter and how to integrate with StorageGRID

LakeFS for data lake AI/ML management and compliance

2026-08-24 00:00 7 minute read

LakeFS successfully brings git and file-style management to data lakes

Datalake-ish RAG with (only) NetApp StorageGRID S3

2026-08-19 00:00 7 minute read

The post discusses the trend of hosting all AI-related persistent data on S3 object stores

Kafka 4 with NetApp E-Series

2026-08-05 00:00 14 minute read

Tips and thoughts about using NetApp E-Series with Kafka 4

Eke v0.2 and NetApp StorageGRID as BeeGFS Remote Storage Target

2026-08-02 00:00 4 minute read

Eke v0.2 - upstream is breaking, downstream is fixing. Also about the RST stuff with NetApp StorageGRID

Object stores solved problems with data sharing in hybrid cloud years ago

2026-08-02 00:00 7 minute read

The myth of data sharing challenges persists. Object stores solved data sharing in hybrid years ago. And OneLake can use NetApp StorageGRID now.

OpenSharing server for NetApp StorageGRID and E-Series with Versity S3 Gateway

2026-07-22 00:00 4 minute read

OpenSharing server for StorageGRID and E-Series with VGW done in Go

Monitor and prune object versions on NetApp StorageGRID S3

2026-07-13 00:00 3 minute read

No, you don't need a new "feature" for that

ObjectiveFS with NetApp StorageGRID and E-Series

2026-07-08 00:00 12 minute read

Use cases, scenarios and solutions with ObjectiveFS and NetApp StorageGRID

Eke - CLI utility for smarter data management with BeeGFS on NetApp E-Series

2026-07-05 00:00 13 minute read

Eke is my take on a subset of BeeGFS CLI features with some added goodies

Kompromise - control plane for S3 data pipelines with NetApp StorageGRID/E-Series and Versity S3 Gateway

2026-06-27 00:00 11 minute read

It all already works with OSS - I just put it together to work better with StorageGRID and E-Series

NATS server with NetApp E-Series

2026-06-21 00:00 22 minute read

Thoughts on how to configure E-Series for NATS server in single- and multi-rack deployments

Lakekeeper Iceberg REST Catalog with NetApp E-Series

2026-06-20 00:00 4 minute read

Why NetApp E-Series - for DB and S3 Object Storage - is all you need for Lakekeeper Iceberg REST Catalog

NetApp volume content sharing with OpenSharing and Versity S3 Gateway

2026-06-17 00:00 5 minute read

After Tables, we evaluate OpenSharing API for NetApp E-Series Volume assets

IoT ingress, OpenSharing, Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp E-Series

2026-06-16 00:00 8 minute read

We take a look at packaging JSON data for OpenSharing-ready serving with Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp E-Series

Iceberg table compaction with E-Series

2026-06-15 00:00 4 minute read

Having fast and reliable protected storage helps

Does OpenSharing have anything for NetApp E-Series?

2026-06-14 00:00 10 minute read

Does OpenSharing matter to E-Series users?

Apache Ozone S3 with NetApp E-Series, SANtricity CSI

2026-05-19 00:00 4 minute read

Trying out Apache Ozone 2.1 on NetApp E-Series-backed Kubernetes

Splunk Operator for Kubernetes with NetApp E-Series

2026-04-21 00:00 6 minute read

Splunk 10.2 installed by SOK on k0s with IBM Block CSI with SANtricity patch

Elasticsearch 9 ECK (Kubernetes), k0s, NetApp SANtricity CSI

2026-04-13 00:00 7 minute read

Easily and quickly, deploy Elasticsearch 9 on Kubernetes attached to E-Series

StorageGRID Branch Buckets and Read Cache

2025-10-09 00:00 10 minute read

Some ways to take better advantage of the new features in StorageGRID 12

Data pipeline with BeeGFS FS Event Notifications and Versity S3 Gateway

2025-06-22 00:00 7 minute read

Notify, scan, profit!

Improved pipelines with BeeGFS FS Event Notifications in v8

2025-06-15 00:00 18 minute read

Improved BeeGFS v8 file-system event notifications

Simple file share and S3 analytics and MCP ops

2025-06-05 00:00 15 minute read

Getting more out of your (small- and medium-sized) SMB, NFS and S3 data without bloat

Data pipelines with ThinParQ BeeGFS and NetApp E-Series

2025-05-23 00:00 18 minute read

ThinkParQ BeeGFS v8 with NetApp E-Series

2025-05-17 00:00 24 minute read

Put BeeGFS Enterprise Edition to best use with NetApp E-Series arrays: indexing, workflows, antivirus and more

Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

2025-04-16 00:00 11 minute read

Notes on Cloudera with E-Series

Metrics for NetApp SolidFire backup-to-S3 in InfluxDB and Grafana

2024-04-24 00:00 13 minute read

Send NetApp SolidFire backup-to-S3 metrics and logs to InfluxDB and visualize in Grafana 11

NetApp SolidFire Collector with Grafana 11

2024-04-23 00:00 3 minute read

Use SolidFire Collector v0.7 with Grafana 11

Analyze HTTP logs from NetApp StorageGRID gateway nodes

2024-03-18 00:00 3 minute read

What StorageGRID Gateway Node 11.8 HTTP log is, how to parse it and why … not

Kafka notifications in NetApp StorageGRID 11.8

2024-02-23 00:00 4 minute read

Notes on Kafka notification integration in StorageGRID 11.8

Snapshots and ILM with Elasticsearch 8

2023-11-30 00:00 14 minute read

Notes and observations about snapshots and ILM in Elasticsearch 8 from a NetApp E-Series perspective

Postgres, pgvector, E-Series and Instaclustr

2023-11-28 00:00 11 minute read

PostgresSQL's pgvector extension, Instaclustr and NetApp E-Series

Send NetApp SolidFire metrics to Splunk HTTP Event Collector aka HEC

2023-11-12 00:00 6 minute read

How to send SolidFire metrics and logs to Splunk

Teradata Vantage with NetApp S3 object stores

2023-08-31 00:00 3 minute read

Teradata with structured data on a nearby or remote S3-compatible Object Store

Storage considerations for Memphis message broker

2023-08-29 00:00 7 minute read

What is Memphis (Memphis.dev) and how to select appropriate storage for your on-premises Memphis deployment

Microsoft SQL Server data virtualization PolyBase with S3 Object Stores

2023-08-28 00:00 5 minute read

Benefits of using SQL Server to access structured data on a nearby or remote S3-compatible Object Store

FSCrawler for basic filesystem analytics in Elasticsearch

2023-08-01 00:00 2 minute read

Few short thoughts about FSCrawler

Thanos with StorageGRID, ONTAP S3 and MinIO on E-Series

2023-07-28 00:00 6 minute read

How to use StorageGRID, MinIO/E-Series or ONTAP S3 with Thanos, and some general considerations

StorageGRID and Elasticsearches

2023-07-20 00:00 4 minute read

Things to know about NetApp StorageGRID and Elasticsearch integrations

TensorStore with BeeGFS

2022-09-23 00:00 3 minute read

Use BeeGFS in file:// KvStore URL scheme for TensorStore

BeeGFS and NetApp E-Series metrics in InfluxDB v2 or Prometheus

2022-08-15 00:00 2 minute read

Send BeeGFS monitoring data into InfluxDB v2 or NetApp Cloud Insights

Leverage BeeGFS in Nextflow to avoid unnecessary data movement

2022-08-11 00:00 4 minute read

Leverage fast parallel filesystem (BeeGFS) for data-intensive Nextflow container jobs

Cassandra with SolidFire and E-Series

2022-07-09 00:00 9 minute read

Notes on Cassandra with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series

Milvus with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series

2022-07-07 00:00 6 minute read

Observations from using Milvus with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series

Apache Ozone S3 and NetApp E-Series

2022-07-06 00:00 5 minute read

When to use Apache Ozone with E-Series

Storage efficiency with Kafka 3.2 and NetApp SolidFire 12

2022-07-05 00:00 6 minute read

Effects of enabling Kafka compression and RF >1 on SolidFire storage efficiency

E-Series as Tier One for multi-tiered Kafka clusters

2022-06-28 00:00 18 minute read

E-Series as Tier 1 in multi-tiered Kafka clusters

Apache Hadoop 3 with NetApp E-Series

2022-06-22 00:00 13 minute read

NetApp E-Series as Apache HDFS storage back-end

Copy files to/from BeeGFS before or after scheduled jobs

2022-06-14 00:00 1 minute read

We don't necessarily need automated cross-filesystem tiering

S3 Select vs. remote SQL access to CSV over FUSE

2022-03-10 00:00 5 minute read

S3 Select vs. remote SQL CSV access over FUSE

Elasticsearch 8 with NetApp storage

2022-03-06 00:00 31 minute read

Notes on using Elasticsearch 8 with NetApp storage

S3 Select and other new features of NetApp StorageGRID 11.6

2022-03-04 00:00 11 minute read

About S3 Select and other new features in StorageGRID 11.6

Hadoop Multi-Tiered Read-Write S3 cache Alluxio and NetApp StorageGRID

2021-12-16 00:00 12 minute read

In recent posts I blogged about taking advantage of Alluxio's NFS and S3 read-write caching capabilities. This post combines the two approaches and shows how...