State export script for SolidFire CSI and SolidFire
Script to assist with SolidFire failover and failback in Kubernetes environments
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Firemox (Proxmox-SolidFire TUI) updates
What's new in Firemox in May 2026
CouplaReleases
What I've been up to this weekend
Cloud-Native Postgres with NetApp SANtricity and SolidFire CSI
Cloud-Native PostgreSQL with NetApp SANtricity and SolidFire CSI (VolumeSnapshots)
SolidFire CSI, a community CSI driver for NetApp SolidFire
What's SolidFire CSI community driver, who should use it and why
Terraform provider for SolidFire update for Feb 2026
Latest and greatest Terraform provider for SolidFire status update (2026/02)
Ansible community collection for NetApp SolidFire
Users of Ansible 2.20 looking for a SolidFire collection, here you go
Trident concurrency with SolidFire
Let's see how much faster we can go!
SolidFire WAC Gateway Client (PowerShell)
About that thing that should have been done in 2016
SolidFire Collector v2.1.0
Stack complete and tagged
SolidFire Extension for Windows Admin Center 2025
More on that extra pair of gloves…
SolidFire Gateway for Windows Admin Center 2025
Yes, someone had two pairs of gloves all this time…
Updated Terraform provider for SolidFire
What is going on with that Terraform provider for SolidFire…
The shocking truth about SolidFire ModifySchedule method
CreateSchedule and ModifySchedule are weird. It took me almost a decade to figure it out.
Firemox - an anti-plugin for Proxmox PVE with NetApp SolidFire
The best NetApp storage array gets a Proxmox PVE anti-plugin
SolidFire backup to disk with Versity S3 Gateway
Backup to disk by backing up to S3 with Versity S3 Gateway
Connecting to SolidFire from PowerShell 7.5
Dealing with Connect-SFCluster: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Net.Http.WebRequest, Version=4.0.0.0.
Do we need a NetApp SolidFire plugin for Proxmox
Would it be hard to create a SolidFire plugin for Proxmox?
SFC (SolidFire Collector) 2.1
See what's new in latest release of SolidFire metrics collector
Windows Server 2025 with NetApp SolidFire
Windows Server 2025 iSCSI client works with SolidFire as expected
Build NetApp SolidFire MCP server
It's easy, because SolidFire rocks!
Convert NetApp HCI from VMware to Hyper-V
How to convert NetApp HCI VMs to Hyper-V (VMDK to VHD)
Kubefire for Kubernetes failover/failback with SolidFire
Recipes and tools for Kubernetes failover and failback with Trident CSI and NetApp SolidFire backends
Get SolidFire volume attributes created by Trident, other apps
Extract and use SolidFire volume attributes
Increase size of SolidFire volumes paired for replication
How to increase total size of SolidFire volumes paired for replication
Snapshots and snapshot schedules in SFC v2
Monitoring of schedules, snapshots and snapshot groups in SFC
Trident QoS policy sucker for SolidFire backend
Script stores SolidFire QoS policies into Trident config
Snapshots and snapshot schedules in NetApp SolidFire
Shallow dive into SolidFire snapshot schedules
SFC v2 adds volume replication monitoring
Monitor NetApp SolidFire volume replication in SolidFire Collector for FREE (if your time is free)
Monitoring volume replication in NetApp SolidFire
Monitor initial copy and ongoing replication on SolidFire
Reporting SolidFire cluster and volume pairing relationships
Creating reports for SolidFire cluster pairs and volume replication pairs
Project Longhorny
Manage SolidFire cluster pairs and volume replication from the CLI
Kubernetes, Trident and SolidFire configuration - part 2
Use cases for using Kubernetes-Trident-SolidFire mapping information
Kubernetes, Trident and SolidFire configuration visibility
How to improve Kubernetes DR/BC and storage reporting in your K8s environment
SolidFire Collector v2.0.0 is ready
SFC v2 sucks less than HCI Collector v0.7 and supports larger clusters
Make use of storage QoS histograms on NetApp SolidFire
Making sense of storage QoS histograms on NetApp SolidFire
Use Telegraf to send NetApp SolidFire metrics to InfluxDB
Working Telegraf exec script that sends SolidFire volume metrics to InfluxDB
Access NetApp SolidFire API with Async IO
Using asynchronous IO with NetApp SolidFire API endpoint
Towards next SolidFire Collector (SFC)
Working on SFC, a successor to HCI Collector
Windows Server 2025 with NetApp SolidFire 12 iSCSI Part Two
Notes on hardware-assisted T-SQL snapshots (SQL Server 2022, Windows Server 2025, NetApp SolidFire)
Windows Server 2025 with NetApp SolidFire 12 iSCSI Part Three
Notes on Hyper-V (Windows Server 2025, NetApp SolidFire)
Windows Server 2025 with NetApp SolidFire 12 iSCSI
Notes on using Windows Server 2025 with NetApp SolidFire iSCSI storage
Add NetApp SolidFire iSCSI storage to KVM
Overview of SolidFire-related storage options for KVM
UNMAP/TRIM Hyper-V volumes backed by NetApp SolidFire
Some notes on rethinning Windows NTFS host filesystems that reside on SolidFire iSCSI storage
NetApp SolidFire backup to S3 and MinIO compression savings
We compare native SolidFire compression in backup to S3 vs MinIO compression
RBAC and delegation for SolidFire JSON-RPC API with Lua
Use reverse proxy with Lua to work around SolidFire's lack of RBAC
NetApp SolidFire with GenAI and inferencing workloads
Can SolidFire be used in GenAI scenarios and how?
Calculate snapshot capacity utilization on NetApp SolidFire
SolidFire does not have a way to calculate size of individual snapshots, but it can be done
Send NetApp SolidFire metrics to Splunk HTTP Event Collector aka HEC
How to send SolidFire metrics and logs to Splunk
Velero 1.12 and CSI Snapshot Data Movement with NetApp SolidFire
Some notes on CSI Snapshot Data Movement in the context of SolidFire
SolidBackup with Kopia
Use Kopia to backup cloned SolidFire volumes to S3/B2
Use Simple Backups to file-backup cloned SolidFire volumes to S3/B2
Use Simple Backups to file-backup cloned SolidFire volumes to S3/B2
Using synthetic SolidFire S3 backups for Dev/Test purposes
S3 backups enable client-less testing needed in automation testing
SolidFire backup-to-S3 with Backblaze
How to backup SolidFire volumes to Backblaze buckets
Block volume mode in Kubernetes with SolidFire
What is block volume mode and what can we do with it in a SolidFire environment
Monitor SolidFire clone and backup jobs through API
What are SolidFire ListSyncJobs and ListBulkVolumeJobs API methods and how to use them
SolidFire backup-to-S3 using ONTAP S3 destination
How to backup SolidFire volumes to ONTAP S3 and what is good about it
SolidFire management Web site and API endpoint behind a proxy
What works, and what doesn't, in terms of reverse proxying SolidFire management interfaces
Azure Linux with SolidFire iSCSI targets
How to use Azure Linux as iSCSI client with SolidFire
GA of SolidFire 12.7
What's new in NetApp SolidFire 12.7
End of Availability for SolidFire
SolidFire EOA announcement
SolidFire Backup to S3 over Storage Network
Get around default routing to Object Store
Rocky Linux 8, 9 with NetApp Trident for Docker and SolidFire 12
Configure Rocky Linux 8/9 with Docker-CE, NetApp Trident Docker volume plugin and SolidFire 12 iSCSI storage targets
Show per-node performance guarantees of SolidFire storage nodes
Display per-storage node performance guarantees of SolidFire nodes
GA of SolidFire 12.5
What's new in NetApp SolidFire 12.5
SolidFire Collector on Kubernetes
How to run SolidFire Collector in a Kubernetes environment
SolidFire capacity and efficiency report generator
Generate basic capacity and efficiency utilization report for SolidFire with PowerShell
Manage SolidFire from Jupyter Python or .NET notebooks
Interactive SolidFire management from Jupyter and .NET notebooks
VMware Photon 4.0 with SolidFire 12 iSCSI Target
Photon 4.0 with SolidFire iSCSI SAN
Kubernetes with Cinder CSI on Openstack and SolidFire - Part 2
Getting started with Kubernetes Cinder CSI Plugin on Openstack Xena or Yoga with SolidFire - Part 2
Kubernetes with Cinder CSI on Openstack and SolidFire - Part 1
Getting started with Kubernetes Cinder CSI Plugin on Openstack Xena or Yoga with SolidFire - Part 1
Create SolidFire volumes and accounts with Terraform
How to create and maintain SolidFire volumes and accounts with Terraform
SolidFire RBAC workflow with Ansible
Basic workflow for volume management isolation between teams with SolidFire and Ansible
Configure SNMP on SolidFire cluster using Ansible
How to configure SNMP on SolidFire cluster using Ansible and some thoughts on when to use Ansible
SolidFire v12 Backup and Restore with Wasabi S3
How to configure SolidFire to backup to S3 with Wasabi S3
SolidFire and CVE-2021-44228 Apache Log4j Vulnerability
Where can I get the Log4j patch for SolidFire
Getting SolidFire volume details with Powershell and Python
Getting volume information from SolidFire via the API or CLI
Using NetApp SolidFire Hybrid Cloud Control (HCC) API from PowerShell
It is easy, you just need to copy non-existing samples
Integrate SolidFire with ServiceNow
Integrate SolidFire with ServiceNow by way of Elasticstack
Replicate volume data from Digital Ocean to SolidFire and back
High level steps for protecting or migrating Digital Ocean volumes to on-premises SolidFire storage
SolidFire highlights from NetApp INSIGHT 2021
If you are interested in NetApp HCI, SolidFire or eSDS and have missed NetApp INSIGHT 2021…
SolidFire monitoring with Elasticsearch
Take a look at the various approaches and methods we can use to monitor SolidFire with Elastic's ELK stack
Using Terraform 1.0.6 with SolidFire 12.3
Revisiting SolidFire provider for Terraform v1
SolidFire SNMP v3, Telegraf, Prometheus, Grafana
Securely capture SolidFire performance and events using Telegraf SNMP plugin, send them to Prometheus and visualize in Grafana
Monitor SolidFire with SNMP
How to get started if you use SNMP to monitor SolidFire performance and events
Storage account-level vs. IQN-level CHAP on SolidFire
How storage account-level CHAP authentication compares to IQN-level CHAP authentication and when the latter can be useful
SolidFire Support Bundle Log with Automation, OneCollect
How to automate SolidFire log gathering for Support purposes
Data Path in SolidFire clusters with Protection Domains
Data Path in SolidFire clusters v12 with Protection Domains in words and pictures
Maximum parallelization of SolidFire Backup and Volume Copy/Clone jobs
Safely maximize the number of backup and copy jobs on your SolidFire cluster
Role of SolidFire networks in SolidFire storage replication
Which network(s) is/are used for SolidFire storage replication
Does SolidFire support Availability Zones
Difference between SolidFire Protection Domains and Availability Zones
Monitor SolidFire Network with SolidFire-Exporter, Prometheus and Grafana
Install Grafana, import solidfire-exporter dashboards and monitor your SolidFire in no time
SolidFire Maintenance Mode
Using Maintenance Mode in SolidFire 12.2 and 12.3
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 3.4 with NetApp SolidFire 12.2
Mirantis Kubernetes Engine 3.4 with NetApp SolidFire
Backup SolidFire volumes to S3-compatible storage
SolidFire Backup to S3 feature - everything you wanted to know about it, and possibly more
NetApp SolidFire and Trident CSI failover automation with Powershell
Automate SolidFire failover for Kubernetes with Powershell
Hardware monitoring of NetApp HCI compute nodes for dark sites
Basic monitoring for NetApp HCI compute nodes with SNMP and SMTP
Get started with solidfire-exporter
SolidFire metrics for Kubernetes and other clusters
Announcing HCICollector v0.7
Announcing HCICollector v0.7
NetApp SolidFire, Kasten K10, Kubernetes
Notes on improving data protection and storage management in a Kubernetes environment with SolidFire and Kasten
Use Velero CSI Plugin with NetApp SolidFire and NetApp Trident 21.01
Backup your K8s apps and data on NetApp HCI and SolidFire with Velero
Use SolidFire PowerShell Tools to find low efficiency volumes
How to find low efficiency volumes on NetApp HCI, SolidFire and eSDS clusters
Install NetApp Trident v21.01 with Helm v3, SolidFire
How to install NetApp Trident v21.01.01 on NetApp HCI with Helm
SolidFire mNode and HCC Log Fowarding
How to send SolidFire mNode and HCC logs to a remote syslog server
SolidFire Provider for Terraform
What SolidFire Provider for Terraform can do for you and how you can help make it better
Dark Mode for NetApp HCI and SolidFire
Dark Reader or Dark Mode address the lack of dark mode in various NetApp HCI and SolidFire Web interfaces
solid-rancher
Rancher Kubernetes with NetApp HCI and SolidFire