storagegrid

Use SGII and sg-cosi to provide access to AI in public cloud

2026-11-09 00:00 6 minute read

We have StorageGRID and all the tools we need - we just need to use them to share sitemap.xml and data to cloud indexers

Semantic and lexical search with SereneDB and StorageGRID S3

2026-11-04 00:00 6 minute read

Semantic and direct lexical search with SereneDB and StorageGRID S3 Markdown content

Ragdoll for RAG with SurrealDB and StorageGRID S3

2026-11-03 00:00 9 minute read

We use a NetApp Docs data set to show a workflow that uses SurrealDB (database) and StorageGRID S3 (content)

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

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

Enable PiT backup of NetApp StorageGRID buckets with sg-cosi

2026-09-18 00:00 7 minute read

Use sg-cosi to implement a poor man's S3 bucket backups with the fancy Point-in-Time feature

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

Containerized AutoMQ with NetApp StorageGRID

2026-08-05 00:00 2 minute read

How to run Containerized AutoMQ with StorageGRID 12

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.

Tier WEKA NeuralMesh to NetApp StorageGRID S3

2026-07-25 00:00 9 minute read

Get the benefits of both WEKA and StorageGRID by using storage tiering on WEKA

What's new in NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 and `sg-cosi` 0.5.4

2026-07-25 00:00 4 minute read

Highlights of interesting features from the new StorageGRID 12.1 and sg-cosi 0.5.4

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

What's new in BeeGFS 8.4

2026-07-18 00:00 8 minute read

What's new in BeeGFS 8.4 - facts, opinions, and possibly fiction

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

StorageGRID bucket snapshots with `sg-cosi`

2026-06-13 00:00 5 minute read

How to automate creation of read-only snapshot buckets and credential rotation with sg-cosi

COSI and sg-cosi

2026-06-07 00:00 19 minute read

Why COSI v1alpha1 spec is useless, and why we have to build for garbage specs

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

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

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

Velero AWS Plugin and SignatureDoesNotMatch nonsense

2024-07-13 00:00 7 minute read

Deal with SignatureDoesNotMatch until they fix it

NetApp StorageGRID networks

2024-04-02 00:00 4 minute read

Notes on NetApp StorageGRID networking

Filesystem block size used by NetApp StorageGRID

2024-03-18 00:00 4 minute read

Should we care about filesystem block size on NetApp StorageGRID

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

Delete old object versions on NetApp StorageGRID

2024-02-22 00:00 8 minute read

Create ILM rules and policies to delete garbage from your object store

NetApp StorageGRID on VMware

2024-02-15 00:00 19 minute read

Notes on considerations for running StorageGRID S3 SDS on VMware vSphere

Scan NetApp StorageGRID S3 buckets for viruses and malware

2024-01-29 00:00 11 minute read

How to scan on-premises object storage for viruses and malware

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

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

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

Per-site erasure-coded copies of data with NetApp StorageGRID

2023-08-22 00:00 6 minute read

Modify default StorageGRID ILM policy to use per-site erasure coded protection where appropriate

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

Comparison between S3 object versioning and WORM with NetApp StorageGRID

2023-07-21 00:00 3 minute read

How S3 versioning and WORM work, what they have in common and where they differ

StorageGRID and Elasticsearches

2023-07-20 00:00 4 minute read

Things to know about NetApp StorageGRID and Elasticsearch integrations

Velero V1.8 with Restic, SolidFire 12.3 and StorageGRID 11.5

2022-03-15 00:00 12 minute read

Update of Restic-driven backup with Velero 1.8, SolidFire 12.3 and StorageGRID 11

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

StorageGRID S3 in Public Cloud workflows without Data-at-Rest

2022-01-28 00:00 8 minute read

Processing StorageGRID data in Public Cloud without Data-at-Rest

Using rclone to copy StorageGRID S3 data to local filesystem

2021-12-22 00:00 4 minute read

Because IT must be hard

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...