Posts tagged "netapp-2"

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 3 released with new Performance Monitoring and full ONTAP 8.2 API Support

Aug 9, 2013

NetApp has updated its ( Two major features have been added: A new cmdlet Invoke-NcSysstat which is like Invoke-NaSysstat and allows you to monitor cluster system performance stats for: System, FCP, NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, iSCSI, Volume, Ifnet, LUN, and Disk. Invoke-NcSysstat works in both the cluster and Vserver context for Data ONTAP 8.2 and up. For Data ONTAP versions previous to 8.2, Invoke-Nc...

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NetApp releases its Virtual Storage Console (VSC) PowerShell Toolkit 1.0

Dec 5, 2012

NetApp has extended its PowerShell management to its virtual center plug-in, the Virtual Storage Console. The toolkit can be downladed from ( NetApp currently has a PowerShell toolkit called ( for managing its controllers but this new toolkit has been developed to manage the VSC directly. As this is a 1.0 release not all VSC functionality is available. Currently it can do the Provisioning and Clo...

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VMware vVolumes: the game changing future for storage is demoed

Oct 29, 2012

At VMworld 2011. VMware Virtual Volumes, vVolumes or vVols for short was previewed which I ( You can now see the original presentation: VMworld 2011: VSP3205 - VMware vStorage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data Management Well, another year and another VMworld has passed and it seems the storage game changer is getting closer to seeing the light of day if the recent spate of tech preview...

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NetApp releases its Virtual Storage Appliance, Data ONTAP Edge

Sep 7, 2012

NetApp previously had a VSA which was available only for partners but it was fairly limited in what it could do, had very limited disk space and wasn't the simplest VSA to set up. I have worked with the previous VSA and blogged on how to make it a little more usable by increase the disk space in my post ( which has been one of the most popular posts on this blog which shows you the interest. Un...

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NetApp releases Virtual Storage Console for Citrix XenServer

Aug 17, 2012

NetApp has now released a version of its ( as a plug-in to XenCenter. The VSC allows you to provision, resize and destroy storage repositories, manage deduplication and provision VMs using FlexClone and then import them into XenDesktop. One of the nice things about XenServer and XenCenter is you create storage at the pool level and it is automatically mounted to all hosts in the pool rather tha...

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 2 released supporting ONTAP 8.1 Cluster Mode & more vdisk conversions

May 2, 2012

It seems like only ( that NetApp updated it’s ( to version 1.7. Well, today, now we have ( The major features include: New cmdlets, not including the Cluster-Mode set: New Cluster-Mode cmdlets: NetApp has updated its "( with the new 2.0 features Have a look at the PPT, ( for installation instructions.

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NetApp releases Virtual Storage Console 4.0

Mar 16, 2012

NetApp has released the latest version of its vCenter plug-in which ties together VM and storage management all within the vSphere Client. The update includes far more capability for Cluster Mode and interestingly online alignment of VMs. The Monitoring and Host Configuration capability adds support for the following: The Provisioning and Cloning capability enables you to perform the following...

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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit, DataONTAP 1.7 released with VHD/VMDK file conversion and VHD alignment

Feb 2, 2012

NetApp has today updated it’s ( to version 1.7. I've said it ( but a rebranding to PowerONTAP would be a much cooler! The major features include: VHD/VMDK file conversion. You can use _ConvertTo-NaVhd_ and _ConvertTo-NaVmdk_ to use NetApp FlexClone to convert between VHD files used on Hyper-V and XenServer and VMDK files on VMware. That could make any hypervisor migrations so much easier. VHD par...

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Installing & Maximising the NetApp ONTAP 8.1 Simulator

Jan 4, 2012

UPDATE 7 September 2012: ( which is a licensed functional VSA. One of the strengths of NetApp’s storage offering is that its controller operating system called ( is the same across every NetApp Filer storage product they sell. This is hugely significant as it means if you know how to administer and configure the smallest ( you are pretty much up to speed to administer and configure Filers up t...

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VMworld Buzz: vVolumes, VMware's game changer for storage

Oct 19, 2011

I attended session VSP3205 — Technology Preview: VMware vStorage APIs for VM and Application Granular Data – Satyam Vaghani, Vijay Ramachandran which was rumoured to be all about what’s coming up for storage. This certainly didn’t disappoint and turned out to be one of the coolest new technologies VMware is working on with its storage partners. Very strange that it wasn’t even mentioned in the...

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