e-series

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 8 minute read

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

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

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

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

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?

CouplaReleases

2026-05-17 00:00 9 minute read

What I've been up to this weekend

Storage monitoring in Proxmox PVE and NetApp E-Series environments

2026-05-11 00:00 13 minute read

Monitor disk space in datastores, VMs and CTs on shared LVM stores on E-Series SANtricity systems

Proxmox Backup Server 4.2, Versity S3 Gateway and NetApp E-Series

2026-05-10 00:00 10 minute read

Back both PBS 4.2+ block and S3 datastores with NetApp E-Series

Proxmox Plugin for NetApp E-Series SANtricity

2026-03-31 00:00 11 minute read

Why SANtricity Plug-in for Proxmox 9 exists and why SANmox TUI is better

Proxmox Backup client with NetApp E-Series

2026-03-18 00:00 7 minute read

Use Proxmox Backup client to protect volumes from NetApp E-Series

Veeam B&R 13.0, Proxmox PVE 9.1, and NetApp E-Series

2026-03-14 00:00 12 minute read

Proxmox Backup Server on PVE or bare metal servers and NetApp E-Series

Proxmox PVE with NetApp E-Series-backed NFS/RDMA

2026-03-11 00:00 51 minute read

How to deploy Linux-based NFS and NFS/RDMA service backed by NetApp E-Series

Proxmox Backup Server 4.1 with NetApp E-Series

2026-03-08 00:00 39 minute read

Proxmox Backup Server on PVE or bare metal servers and NetApp E-Series

Proxmox PVE 9.1.1 (Debian) with NetApp EF-Series NVMe/RoCE

2026-03-01 00:00 22 minute read

PVE 9.1.1 with NVMe/RoCE on NetApp EF600

Using S3 bucket snapshots in StorageGRID 12

2026-01-30 00:00 7 minute read

Branch buckets are bucket snapshots. Read how to create, use and delete them

Glances plugin for SANtricity in DAS environments

2026-01-26 00:00 2 minute read

NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer v3.5.3

2026-01-21 00:00 4 minute read

About new Prometheus metrics and PiT volume performance

Kubernetes CSI with NetApp E-Series SANtricity

2026-01-20 00:00 5 minute read

CSI drivers you can use with NetApp SANtricity arrays

NetApp E-Series SANtricity CSI

2026-01-19 00:00 13 minute read

Community CSI driver for NetApp E-Series arrays: what it is and what it does

Big data & analytics patterns for NetApp object & block

2026-01-16 00:00 3 minute read

This posts shows an S3-centric storage architecture pattern

NetApp E-Series SANtricity Terraform Provider

2026-01-16 00:00 15 minute read

Provision storage in seconds with Terraform and E-Series

E-Series SANtricity Go client for Day 1+ operations

2026-01-15 00:00 1 minute read

Permissive OSS client Go library and CLI for E-Series SANtricity storage systems

NetApp E-Series single volume and consistency group clones

2026-01-14 00:00 12 minute read

How to copy a volume into another, directly, from a snapshot, or from consistency group snapshot and more

Change disk group's RAID level on NetApp E-Series

2026-01-14 00:00 6 minute read

How to change a disk group's RAID protection schema on NetApp E-Series SANtricity arrays

Windows Server 2025 and Hyper-V with NetApp E-Series

2026-01-11 00:00 7 minute read

Notes on Windows Server 2025 and E-Series SANtricity arrays in iSCSI and NVMe/RoCEv2 environments

Reautomating E-Series

2025-12-22 00:00 3 minute read

Notes for E-Series automation

Kinetica with NetApp E-Series

2025-12-22 00:00 5 minute read

Why put Kinetic disk and persist tier on EF storage arrays

Resource Provisioning on E-Series SANtricity

2025-12-17 00:00 4 minute read

About resource provsioned volumes and groups/pools

E-Series SANtricity Web UI lockout

2025-12-05 00:00 2 minute read

How to use (or not) lockout feature in E-Series SANtricity

TAPOUT - MCP server for ONTAP to E-Series migration

2025-10-15 00:00 4 minute read

Migrate to NetApp E-Series arrays with MCP

Post-Quantum API proxy for E-Series and SolidFire

2025-10-10 00:00 9 minute read

Enterprise-grade PQC TLS encryption for E-Series and SolidFire API endpoints

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

E-Series Performance Analyzer v3.5.1

2025-10-08 00:00 1 minute read

E-Series Performance Analyzer v3.5.1 has been released with minor improvements

E-Series SANtricity Collector (ESC 4)

2025-10-07 00:00 8 minute read

About EPA 4 (aka ESC 4) and how to pick the right one for you

MCP Server for NetApp E-Series arrays

2025-09-13 00:00 9 minute read

Use case for MCP server for NetApp E-Series arrays

Containerized BeeGFS with NFSv4 and S3

2025-09-12 00:00 8 minute read

Revisiting that old idea for All-in-One BeeGFS stack

SolidFire Collector v2.1.0

2025-09-04 00:00 4 minute read

Stack complete and tagged

EPA version 3.5.0

2025-08-31 00:00 5 minute read

What's new in EPA v3.5.0

EPA version 3.4.1

2025-08-27 00:00 3 minute read

What's new in EPA v3.4.1

EPA version 3.4.0

2025-08-24 00:00 5 minute read

What's new in EPA v3.4.0

E-Config v2 updated for QLC drives

2025-08-20 00:00 4 minute read

I got carried away while making overdue updates to E-Config and added a new feature

E-Series Performance Analyzer (EPA) v4 beta

2025-08-11 00:00 9 minute read

E-Series Performance Analyzer 4

Data pipelines with ThinParQ BeeGFS and NetApp E-Series

2025-05-23 00:00 18 minute read

OPEA AI with NetApp E-Series

2025-05-21 00:00 8 minute read

Making OPEA work with NetApp E-Series (and BeeGFS)

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

Swagger files for NetApp E-Series

2024-04-26 00:00 less than 1 minute read

How to get Swagger files for your NetApp E-Series array

EConfig v2

2024-04-23 00:00 5 minute read

EConfig allows you to quickly size E-Series capacity for BeeGFS and NOSQL solutions

NetApp E-Series with containerized BeeGFS, NFS, S3

2024-04-11 00:00 4 minute read

Get started in minutes: E-Series, BeeGFS, S3 and NFS 4

SSD Cache feature on NetApp SANtricity E-Series

2024-03-29 00:00 7 minute read

How to configure SSD Cache, enable HDD volumes to use it, and monitor its performance

NetApp SANtricity PowerShell module for E-Series

2024-03-28 00:00 5 minute read

Get and use PowerShell 5.1 module for NetApp SANtricity (E-series, EF-Series)

Monitor progress and notify of E-Series media scan events

2024-03-17 00:00 11 minute read

Detect, monitor, and notify of media scan jobs on NetApp E-Series

NetApp E-Series DAS or SAN storage as Veeam Hardened Repository

2024-01-24 00:00 9 minute read

How to use NetApp E-series for Veeam Hardened Repository

Kubernetes KEDA with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series

2024-01-24 00:00 12 minute read

Notes on autoscaling Kubernetes workloads backed by E-Series or SolidFire using KEDA

Containerized BeeGFS with NetApp E-Series

2023-12-02 00:00 8 minute read

How to deploy containerized BeeGFS with E-Series

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

NetApp E-Series sizing for Splunk 9 with SmartStore

2023-11-06 00:00 24 minute read

Some rules of thumb that can help you size E-Series for Splunk better

E-Series Perf Analyzer (EPA) v3.3.0

2023-11-04 00:00 5 minute read

What's new in EPA v3.3.0

Monitor Snapshot Consistency Groups of NetApp E-Series SANtricity OS

2023-10-29 00:00 7 minute read

Practical thoughts on monitoring SANtricity Consistency Groups

Faster PostgreSQL with DDP-based RAID 1 compared to DDP-based RAID 6

2023-10-17 00:00 5 minute read

Alternative to old school R5/R1 database volume pattern - NetApp E-Series DDP with R6/R1

Monitor snapshot and clone repositories of NetApp E-Series SANtricity OS

2023-10-12 00:00 4 minute read

Thoughts on monitoring repos used by SANtricity snapshots and clones

Benefits of RAID 1 in E-Series DDP

2023-10-08 00:00 6 minute read

Get performance and management improvements with RAID 1 on DDP

Stand-alone and Consistency Group snapshots on NetApp E-Series

2023-10-05 00:00 26 minute read

Understand and use SANtricity snapshots of both stand-alone and snapshot consistency group volume members

Monitoring NetApp E-Series with PRTG

2023-09-25 00:00 20 minute read

Use SNMP Get, SNMP traps and SANtricity API to monitor E-Series in PRTG

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as iSER client to NetApp E-Series

2023-09-22 00:00 18 minute read

Ubuntu with E-Series iSER? So what if it's not supported!?

Versity S3 Gateway with BeeGFS

2023-09-20 00:00 4 minute read

Use VersityGW with BeeGFS on E-Series

Event monitoring with SNMP traps from NetApp E-Series arrays

2023-09-17 00:00 18 minute read

Tips on receiving SNMP traps from NetApp E-Series systems and other event monitoring methods

ThinkParQ takes over NetApp-created BeeGFS CSI driver

2023-09-08 00:00 less than 1 minute read

What happened to NetApp's BeeGFS CSI driver

MinIO Erasure Coding with NetApp E-Series

2023-09-03 00:00 14 minute read

What MinIO EC rules to apply with E-Series and which approach lets me maximize my ROI on E-Series?

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

Change E-Series DDP preservation capacity on-the-fly

2023-08-02 00:00 4 minute read

Change E-Series DDP preservation capacity on-the-fly

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

Versity S3 Gateway

2023-06-14 00:00 3 minute read

Promising free S3 gateway for POSIX filesystems

Use cases for AWS mountpoint-s3 with NetApp E-Series and SolidFire

2023-03-16 00:00 5 minute read

Some use cases for AWS mountpoint-s3 with NetApp E-Series and SolidFire

Elasticsearch performance with E-Series

2023-02-25 00:00 22 minute read

Make an educated guess for your storage performance requirements with Elasticsearch and E-Series

Visualize E-Series temperature and power consumption metrics with EPA

2023-02-18 00:00 1 minute read

Monitor temperature sensors and power consumption on NetApp E-Series with EPA

Backup/restore E-Series Performance Analyzer with Kasten K10

2023-02-10 00:00 6 minute read

How to leverage E-Series for both Veeam and Kasten backup destination

Store Kasten backups on NetApp E-Series

2023-02-09 00:00 4 minute read

How to leverage E-Series for both Veeam and Kasten backup destination

Flash media overprovisioning on NetApp E-Series

2023-01-17 00:00 3 minute read

Why and how E-Series uses overprovisioning aka capacity reservation with flash media (SAS and NVMe)

NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer in container environments

2023-01-14 00:00 4 minute read

Deploy and run E-Series Performance Analyzer on Kubernetes and Hashicorp Nomad

Burst on-premises BeeGFS/E-Series to Spot Ocean in the cloud

2023-01-12 00:00 4 minute read

Make BeeGFS on E-Series data available to GPU-enabled Analytics and Deep Learning workfloads with Spot Ocean for Spark

Monitor wear level of NetApp E-Series SSDs with API and CLI

2023-01-08 00:00 1 minute read

Monitor wear level of NetApp E-Series flash drives via the API and from the CLI

SSD disk wear indicator in E-Series SANtricity 11.70

2022-12-21 00:00 less than 1 minute read

Find wear level of SSD media in your E-Series array

NetApp BeeGFS CSI driver 1.4.0

2022-12-16 00:00 less than 1 minute read

Updates for Kubernetes and BeeGFS CSI, and alpha support for Nomad CSI

Gathering and forwarding E-Series SANtricity Major Event Log (MEL)

2022-12-13 00:00 2 minute read

Forward SANtricity events to a remote syslog server and then Elasticsearch

Prometheus exporter for NetApp E-Series SANtricity OS

2022-12-12 00:00 2 minute read

Gather E-Series SANtricity metrics through Web Services proxy and export to Prometheus

Forward E-Series SANtricity logs to remote syslog server

2022-12-12 00:00 1 minute read

Forward SANtricity events to a remote syslog server and then Elasticsearch

Kubernetes and E-Series - DirectPV, TopoLVM, CSI Driver LVM CSI

2022-12-09 00:00 25 minute read

Use community CSI drivers with DAS or SAN-attached E-Series arrays

PowerShell password change for local E-Series SANtricity OS users

2022-12-07 00:00 2 minute read

Have you had enough of that SSH nonsense? If yes, read this post

Notes on NetApp E-Series Performance Analyzer

2022-10-26 00:00 9 minute read

Visualize performance metrics of NetApp E-Series arrays in Grafana

Rocky Linux 8 and 9 added to NetApp E-Series interoperability matrix

2022-10-26 00:00 1 minute read

Use Rocky with NetApp E-Series

Notes on MinIO performance with NetApp E-Series

2022-10-21 00:00 3 minute read

Performance-related notes on MinIO with E-Series

iRODS or Robinhood HSM with BeeGFS

2022-10-20 00:00 3 minute read

External solution to move files between BeeGFS filesystem and external locations such as other BeeGFS FS, NFS shares, or S3 buckets

Speed of volume creation with BeeGFS CSI

2022-09-27 00:00 4 minute read

Fast creation and deletion of CSI volumes

Low-hanging BeeGFS efficiency fruit

2022-09-24 00:00 5 minute read

Identifying low-hanging fruit in BeeGFS storage efficiency

TensorStore with BeeGFS

2022-09-23 00:00 3 minute read

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

DDP capacity splitter for E-Series

2022-09-18 00:00 less than 1 minute read

Estimate share of R1- and R6-style volumes in a DDP pool

New Dynamic Disk Pool configuration and E-Series SANtricity

2022-09-12 00:00 17 minute read

Smaller and more flexible Dynamic Disk Pools on NetApp E-Series, including RAID 1

Brute force sizing NetApp E-Series

2022-09-04 00:00 16 minute read

Get promising E-Series disk size and RAID/DDP configuration for BeeGFS in seconds

LXD containers and VMs on BeeGFS with NetApp E-Series

2022-09-02 00:00 11 minute read

Use BeeGFS on E-Series as storage pools for LXD containers and VMs

Configuration approaches to NetApp E-Series with ThinkParQ BeeGFS

2022-08-28 00:00 6 minute read

How to mix and match storage and servers

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

Nomad pack for InfluxDB with BeeGFS filesystem

2022-08-11 00:00 8 minute read

Simplify containerized InfluxDB deployment with Nomad Pack and BeeGFS

S3 service for BeeGFS using Hashicorp Nomad and MinIO gateway

2022-08-09 00:00 4 minute read

Nomad-managed MinIO service on BeeGFS filesystem

Apptainer with BeeGFS

2022-08-08 00:00 2 minute read

Access BeeGFS from Apptainer container

Cassandra with SolidFire and E-Series

2022-07-09 00:00 9 minute read

Notes on Cassandra 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

Kubernetes with vSphere CSI Plugin and NetApp E-Series

2022-05-18 00:00 2 minute read

Complete workflow for configuring E-Series for VMware Tanzu with vSphere plug-in

BeeGFS and BeeGFS CSI on ARM64

2022-04-30 00:00 4 minute read

BeeGFS for ARM64 is out… and not only that!

Scaling out Nomad batch jobs with BeeGFS and NetApp E-Series

2022-04-24 00:00 12 minute read

How to effectively disaggregate resources and scale out your Nomad-managed batch processing using a shared file system and NetApp E-Series

Backup and restore NetApp BeeGFS CSI PVs with Kanister

2022-04-13 00:00 7 minute read

Kanister and Kasten backup and restore with BeeGFS CSI

An introduction to NetApp BeeGFS CSI

2022-04-09 00:00 13 minute read

CSI provisioner for IO-intensive jobs with BeeGFS CSI and E-Series

Nomad batch jobs with BeeGFS and E-Series

2022-04-05 00:00 6 minute read

IO-intensive Nomad batch jobs on an E-Series-backed BeeGFS Host Volume

Rest Server with NetApp E-Series

2022-04-03 00:00 16 minute read

Use Restic to protect data on Rest Server with NetApp E-Series storage

HashiCorp Nomad CSI with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series back-ends

2022-03-28 00:00 6 minute read

Status of SolidFire and E-Series for Nomad CSI users

Elasticsearch 8 with NetApp storage

2022-03-06 00:00 31 minute read

Notes on using Elasticsearch 8 with NetApp storage

Faster initialization, rebalancing with DDP on NetApp E-Series

2021-07-06 00:00 3 minute read

How quickly can I grow a DDP and volumes on it?

StorageGRID SDS for Splunk Smartstore on NetApp HCI, EF-Series

2021-01-15 00:00 13 minute read

If you want to deploy Splunk SmartStore with NetApp StorageGRID object storage and want to start small

Elasticsearch on NetApp HCI H615C with EF-Series EF280

2021-01-04 00:00 16 minute read

Running Elasticsearch on NetApp HCI with EF-Series storage

Virtualized Splunk on NetApp HCI and EF Series iSCSI storage

2020-12-31 00:00 14 minute read

Why virtualized distributed Splunk on NetApp HCI and EF Series makes sense

BeeGFS on NetApp HCI with EF280 for high-speed VM file sharing

2020-12-31 00:00 7 minute read

Create scale-out storage clusters on your NetApp HCI compute stack

DiskSpd performance from NetApp HCI VM to EF280

2020-12-30 00:00 21 minute read

Backup workload with single VM on NetApp H615C compute node attached to EF280

How much slower is iSCSI vs. Fibre Channel

2020-12-05 00:00 6 minute read

We all know iSCSI is slower, the only question is by how much. Right?