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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

Ray checkpointing with BeeGFS and StorageGRID

2026-09-19 00:00 10 minute read

We continue from Part 1, where we explored checkpointing to BeeGFS, by moving checkpoints to NetApp StorageGRID

Ray framework with NetApp E-Series and StorageGRID

2026-09-16 00:00 14 minute read

Use cases for Ray with StorageGRID and E-Series

Script Editor in NetApp E-Series SANtricity 12

2026-04-14 00:00 3 minute read

Why I don't like the new Script Editor feature in SANtricity 12

santricity-powershell adds single volume snapshots and clones

2026-01-25 00:00 10 minute read

Automate creation of single-volume snapshots and clones with PowerShell (Linux, Windows, OS X)

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

santricity-powershell for Day 1+ E-Series automation

2026-01-06 00:00 2 minute read

Replace SMcli for most Day 1+ operations

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

Cloudera Base with NetApp E-Series

2025-04-16 00:00 11 minute read

Notes on Cloudera with E-Series

InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing

2025-01-24 00:00 13 minute read

E-Series Performance Analyzer and SolidFire Collector users can upgrade their back-end database

MinIO and Versity S3 GW with tiny object workloads on NetApp E-Series

2024-10-14 00:00 16 minute read

Performance-related notes and observations created running MinIO and Versity S3 GW NetApp EF-Series

Using NetApp E-Series Volume Copy

2024-10-10 00:00 11 minute read

Things to know about Volume Copy (volume clone) on NetApp E-Series

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)

ZFS with NetApp E-Series

2024-02-28 00:00 5 minute read

Practical use of NetApp E-Series-backed ZFS from Incus/LXD

ZFS deduplication with NetApp E-Series

2024-02-26 00:00 11 minute read

How E-Series users may benefit from improved ZFS deduplication

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

PyTorch checkpointing workload with NetApp E-Series

2024-01-10 00:00 10 minute read

Recommendations for saving and loading Torch checkpoints with E-Series

Containerized BeeGFS with NetApp E-Series

2023-12-02 00:00 8 minute read

How to deploy containerized BeeGFS with E-Series

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

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

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

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

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

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?