Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with SolidFire iSCSI targets
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS works with SolidFire, with some small quirks
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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!
Post-Quantum API proxy for E-Series and SolidFire
Enterprise-grade PQC TLS encryption for E-Series and SolidFire API endpoints
SolidFire WAC Gateway Client (PowerShell)
About that thing that should have been done in 2016
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!
InfluxDB 3 Core Alpha available for testing
E-Series Performance Analyzer and SolidFire Collector users can upgrade their back-end database
Convert NetApp HCI from VMware to Hyper-V
How to convert NetApp HCI VMs to Hyper-V (VMDK to VHD)
Boot OpenShift RCOS from NetApp SolidFire iSCSI target
Install and boot RCOS using SolidFire iSCSI device
Rapid PVC provisioning with NetApp Trident and SolidFire
Rapid volume provisioning on Kubernetes
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
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
Tenant (account) attributes on NetApp SolidFire
Make use of storage account attributes on NetApp SolidFire
OpenAPI and SolidFire
About OpenAPI file for SolidFire
Metrics for NetApp SolidFire backup-to-S3 in InfluxDB and Grafana
Send NetApp SolidFire backup-to-S3 metrics and logs to InfluxDB and visualize in Grafana 11
NetApp SolidFire Collector with Grafana 11
Use SolidFire Collector v0.7 with Grafana 11
Backup NetApp SolidFire's non-Kubernetes volumes with Velero
SolidBackup with Velero - modern backup of SolidFire non-K8s volumes to S3
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
Use Velero with NetApp Verda and Trident CSI
Leverage NetApp Verda for pre and post CSI backup hooks from Velero v1.13
Velero v1.13 metadata, hooks with NetApp Trident v24.02
A look at the backup job details with Velero v1.13 CSI and NetApp Trident with SolidFire
Quickly install NetApp Trident v24.02 on ARM64 Kubernetes
Quick installation of NetApp Trident v24.02 for ARM64 from pre-built images
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with NetApp SolidFire
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with ZFS and NetApp SolidFire 12
Add NetApp SolidFire iSCSI storage to KVM
Overview of SolidFire-related storage options for KVM
How to change NetApp HCI from VMware to alternatives
The viability of migrating NetApp HCI compute nodes to non-VMware platforms
Kubernetes KEDA with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series
Notes on autoscaling Kubernetes workloads backed by E-Series or SolidFire using KEDA
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
StatefulSet PVC Retention with Trident and SolidFire
Stateful Set can benefit from global deduplication and avoiding unnecessary writes to resync replica volumes
What's new in NetApp Trident v23.07
What's new and deprecated in NetApp Trident v23.07, and a rant on Trident on ARM64
Azure Linux with SolidFire iSCSI targets
How to use Azure Linux as iSCSI client with SolidFire
CloudCasa, Velero, NetApp Trident, and SolidFire
Commercially supported Web UI for Velero
Using snapshot attributes in SolidFire
Improve SolidFire snapshot workflows with snapshot attributes
Use cases for AWS mountpoint-s3 with NetApp E-Series and SolidFire
Some use cases for AWS mountpoint-s3 with NetApp E-Series and SolidFire
Protect multi-PVC Kubernetes apps with NetApp Trident, SolidFire
Snapshot, backup and restore multi-volume Kubernetes applications on NetApp SolidFire
Velero 1.10 with NetApp Trident and SolidFire
Velero 1.10 with NetApp Astra Trident v23.01 and and SolidFire 12.5
Backup and replicate Kubernetes PVs with SolidFire using VolSync
Snapshot, backup, and replicate Kubernetes volumes with NetApp Trident and SolidFire using VolSync
KubeVirt backup, restore with NetApp SolidFire & Kasten K10
Move and protect small VMs to Kubernetes with NetApp SolidFire and Trident CSI
Minimizing ransomware risks for SolidFire data
How to better protect SolidFire data
GA of SolidFire 12.7
What's new in NetApp SolidFire 12.7
Hybrid cloud scenarios with Cloudflare serverless
Opportunities for a better hybrid cloud architecture with Cloudflare
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
XCP-ng and XOA with NetApp SolidFire iSCSI Storage Repositories
XCP-ng 8 and XOA with NetApp SolidFire
Cassandra with SolidFire and E-Series
Notes on Cassandra with NetApp SolidFire and E-Series
Storage efficiency with Kafka 3.2 and NetApp SolidFire 12
Effects of enabling Kafka compression and RF >1 on SolidFire storage efficiency
The new Kasten K10 v5.0 with NetApp SolidFire
What's new in Kasten K10 5.0.0 and how to use it with SolidFire
GA of SolidFire 12.5
What's new in NetApp SolidFire 12.5
SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock
SolidFire Backup to S3 with Object Lock-enabled Object Store
SolidFire Collector on Kubernetes
How to run SolidFire Collector in a Kubernetes environment
Ephemeral volumes with BeeGFS CSI provisioner on Kubernetes
Create and use inline emphemeral volumes with E-Series (BeeGFS CSI) and SolidFire
SolidFire Operator for Kubernetes
Build and use SolidFire Operator for Kubernetes to take full advantage of SolidFire features
Consume SolidFire storage from Proxmox hosts
Notes on connecting Proxmox 7.1 iSCSI client to SolidFire 12.3
On-prem Platform9 Managed Kubernetes with SolidFire
Platform9-managed Kubernetes (PMK) with SolidFire and Trident CSI
SolidFire capacity and efficiency report generator
Generate basic capacity and efficiency utilization report for SolidFire with PowerShell
HashiCorp Nomad with NetApp SolidFire-backed iSCSI volumes
HashiCorp Nomad with NetApp SolidFire iSCSI. Kubernetes-like features, Docker-like simplicity.
curl with native JSON support and SolidFire API
Using JSON-capable curl and the SolidFire API
Velero V1.8 with Restic, SolidFire 12.3 and StorageGRID 11.5
Update of Restic-driven backup with Velero 1.8, SolidFire 12.3 and StorageGRID 11
VMware Photon 4.0 with SolidFire 12 iSCSI Target
Photon 4.0 with SolidFire iSCSI SAN
Check Active IQ connectivity from HCC on SolidFire mNode
Check connectivity to Active IQ from HCC on SolidFire mNode
Elasticsearch 8 with NetApp storage
Notes on using Elasticsearch 8 with NetApp storage
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
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
Flatcar Container Linux with SolidFire iSCSI
Getting started with Kinvolk Flatcar Linux and NetApp SolidFire
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
Logical backup vs. storage-assisted backup with Kasten v4 and SolidFire
Does it make sense to use logical backups in a Kasten-SolidFire environment
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
SolidBackup with alternative backup clients
How to modify SolidBackup to use another backup client
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
Get Trident's SolidFire metrics from outside Kubernetes
Get Trident metrics out to external Prometheus server
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
SolidFire, KVM, Duplicati and S3 Object Storage
Use SolidFire APIs and Duplicati to automate data protection in KVM environments
Backup SolidFire volumes to S3-compatible storage
SolidFire Backup to S3 feature - everything you wanted to know about it, and possibly more
GA of SolidFire 12.3
What's new in NetApp SolidFire 12.3
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
Kubernetes failover and failback with Trident CSI and SolidFire
Use Trident CSI and SolidFire to protect data and provide failover and failback to Kubernetes clusters
Get started with solidfire-exporter
SolidFire metrics for Kubernetes and other clusters
Announcing HCICollector v0.7
Announcing HCICollector v0.7
NetApp Trident v21.01.1 on Linux/ARM64 with SolidFire iSCSI storage
NetApp Trident on linux/arm64 K8s cluster with Solidfire iSCSI SAN back-end
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
Install NetApp Trident v21.01 with Helm v3, SolidFire
How to install NetApp Trident v21.01.01 on NetApp HCI with Helm
Virtualized Splunk on NetApp HCI and EF Series iSCSI storage
Why virtualized distributed Splunk on NetApp HCI and EF Series makes sense
BeeGFS on NetApp HCI with EF280 for high-speed VM file sharing
Create scale-out storage clusters on your NetApp HCI compute stack
DiskSpd performance from NetApp HCI VM to EF280
Backup workload with single VM on NetApp H615C compute node attached to EF280
Adapter, network and VLAN isolation on NetApp HCI
Some thoughts about network configuration planning for NetApp HCI compute nodes
Protect your Kubernetes with Kasten and SolidFire
Protect your Kubernetes (such as Rancher) on NetApp HCI with Kasten and SolidFire
SolidFire PowerShell Tools, Python CLI and SDK pip packages v1.7
Upgrade or get started with SolidFire PowerShell and Python CLI v1.7
Rancher Kubernetes Layer-7 NLB/Ingress with NGINX Plus and Let's Encrypt
We use F5 NGINX+ and Let's Encrypt TLS to set up a TLS-Terminating L7 NLB for Rancher on NetApp HCI
Get NetApp Hybrid Cloud Control logs via the HCC API
Use NetApp mNode API to get Hybrid Cloud Control (Docker) logs
Set Temporary Storage QoS Policy for SolidFire Volume
One way to automate temporary storage QoS with PowerShell on SolidFire
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
Helpful waste of time
After using SolidFire SetSSLCertificate in Postman I realized I should have used PowerShell instead
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
Deploying Rancher Worker VMs to NetApp HCI with VMware VSS
Why Resource Pools are additionally useful in a vSS environment
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Rancher Kubernetes with NetApp HCI and SolidFire