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At start NKS was available in public clouds, then NetApp added NKS to on-prem NetApp HCI. And on VMworld 2019 in Las Vegas, before Insight 2019 NetApp announced NKS on VMware (no NetApp HCI platform needed).
In August, NetApp took its Managed Kubernetes Service to the
next level with a new partnership with VMware, allowing users to manage
workloads and infrastructure across public and private environments in a single
pane of glass.
Support for Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud Platform
A SAN economy driver for ONTAP: creates PVs as ONTAP LUNs. The driver creates them within a pool of automatically managed FlexVols. The ontap-san-economy driver supports Kubernetes VolumeSnapshots and PVC Clones from VolumeSnapshots
iSCSI volume resize is operational with Trident in the CSI mode and Kubernetes version 1.16 or greater. Trident will resize the volume on the storage, extends the filesystem, re-scans the device and performs reattach
Support for Kubernetes 1.16 and OpenShift 4.2
Clone PVCs with CSI Volume Cloning
Support for iSCSI raw block volumes in CSI mode, including multi-attach support
Complete list of enhancements and bug fixes, check out the Release Info
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Opinions & observations are my own, and not official NetApp information. This post contains future looking statements and may contain errors. If you have spotted an error, please let me know.
Azure VMware Solution with Azure NetApp Files (ANF)
VMware Cloud on AWS with CVS & CVO
Cloud Volumes On-Premises
Cloud Volumes Service On-Premises
Cloud Volumes on HCI
Cloud Compliance
Cloud Compliance is a file classification tool for industry compliance, privacy regulations across clouds. License is free, you are paying only for running VM in your cloud provider.
File classification & privacy risk tool for Cloud Volumes
License is free, you pay to your Cloud Provider for running additional VM
PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, etc
Credit Cards, IBAN, Emails, SSN, TIM, EIN, etc
Cloud Insights
It is a monitoring tool for cloud & on-prem infrastructure, containers & different vendors, and is free with basic edition to all NetApp customers. Cloud insights available as SaaS service, no installation & configuration needed. So here is what’s new:
REST APIs
Kubernetes Technology
Cloud Secure now is part of Cloud Insights
Active IQ integration
Cloud Secure
Thanks to self-learning AI identifies baseline file access and actively blocks & notifies unusual activities with your files against insider threats and external breaches. Cloud Secure monitor, secure, optimize across hybrid multi-cloud
It is a feature of Cloud Insights Premium
edition
Monitor file activities at CVO & on-prem
ONTAP for unusual activities
NetApp Kubernetes Services (NKS)
At start NKS was available in public clouds, then NetApp added NKS to on-prem NetApp HCI. And on VMworld 2019 in Las Vegas, before Insight 2019 NetApp announced NKS on VMware (no NetApp HCI platform needed).
Now you can manage your Kubernetes clusters & containers in the cloud & on-prem with a single pane of glass NKS service, now these are just yet another “zone” for you:
Notice how asymmetrical number of storage nodes compared to compute nodes are, and in “Real” HCI architectures with local disk drives you have to have more equipment, while with NetApp HCI you can choose how much storage and how much compute resources you need and scale them separately. Dedup & compression were enabled in the tests.
Opinions & observations are my own, and not official NetApp information. This post contains future looking statements and may contain errors. If you have spotted an error, please let me know.
Opinions & observations are my own, and not official NetApp information. This post contains future looking statements and may contain errors. If you have spotted an error, please let me know.
Opinions & observations are my own, and not official NetApp information. This post contains future looking statements and may contain errors. If you have spotted an error, please let me know.
Opinions & observations are my own, and not official NetApp information. This post contains future looking statements and may contain errors. If you have spotted an error, please let me know.
Cloud Storage Pools, combined with the StorageGRID
industry-leading data placement policy engine (ILM policies), enable your
business to automatically and intelligently move only the data that needs to
move to one or more clouds. Cloud Storage Pools can be based on buckets,
applications, or tenants or at the individual object level (based on metadata key
and/or value pairs).
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AFF400, FAS8300, FAS8700. All of those systems basically the same platform but with a different number of Memory & CPU cores. FAS systems also have FlashCache module onboard for read caching. All three requires 9.7 RC1 and have the latest Intel Cascade Lake processors. And that gives us hope we might see Optane as cache as NetApp showed as part of its vision on Insight 2017:
AFF with HW-assistant dedup & compression on a network card Pensando used for Cluster Interconnects
RoCE as data protocol available as Proof of Concept lab for testing, but not in 9.7
AFF A400 now supports NS224 disk shelf alongside with A320
AFF & NVMe
ONTAP 9.6 is qualified with RedHat, SUSE and Oracle Linux for FC-NVMe. Storage path fail-over (ANA) supported with SUSE Linux 15, Oracle Linux 7.6 and 7.7, and (still) no RedHat Linux because of RedHat slowness.
ONTAP AI with containers
Execute AI workloads at a scale with Trident and Kubernetes for CI solution “ONTAP AI” with NVIDIA DXG servers, networking & NetApp AFF NAS storage.
ASA is using the same AFF but only provide SAN protocols. ASA systems uses ONTAP with same architecture but Symmetric Active/Active network access for the block devices. Watch a short video about ASA on Twitter. Hardware for ASA is identical to standard AFF A700 and AFF A220 systems, and software bundle includes Flash/Premium bundle licenses minus NAS-only features
NFSv4, 4.1 & pNFS support with NFS security and locking
With pNFS data I/O path goes locality in a cluster
NDMP with FlexGroups: entire FG, directory or Qtree
Dump & Restores between FGs or FG & FlexVols
FlexGroup is now supported as an origin volume for FlexCache
FlexClone support with FlexGroup
VAAI, and copy offload support, though FlexGroups still not recommended with VMs, but we can clearly see NetApp moves that direction
SnapMirror Sync (SM-S)
Now SM-S replicate app-created snaps & FlexClones. Scheduled snaps are not replicated though
NVMe/FC protocol and namespace support added
NDAS
Since NDAS replicates data with metadata (Unlike FabricPool), now you can access data directly out of the bucket
StorageGRID as Object storage added for NDAS besides existing AWS S3
NetApp looking into an ability to connect NetApp In-Place Analytics Module to object storage bucket with backed up by NDAS data from ONTAP NAS so you can do analytics with your data and how they evolved over the time (i.e. snapshots)
The NetApp Interoperability Matrix Tool now lists supported configurations for NetApp Data Availability Services
AutoSupport is now enabled by default to send NDAS diagnostic records to NetApp Support
200 TB of managed capacity with 100 million files is now supported
ONTAP 9.6P1 & ONTAP 9.7 and later releases are now supported on the target cluster
Bring your own licenses (BYOL) are now available for new and upgraded NDAS instances
The NDAS PreChecker tool is now available to assess your environment’s readiness for deploying NDAS
New AWS regions are now supported for NDAS with AWS:
Open Network: A switch-less MCC 4-node cluster uses customer switches. Switches must comply with NetApp requirements and supported by the customer or switch vendor.
Supported platforms:
AFF A800, A700, A320, A300, and even low-end system A220
FAS 9000, 8200, 2750
MCC-FC
Supported platforms:
AFF A700, A400, A300
FAS 9000, 8700, 8300, 8200
ONTAP Mediator instead of tie breaker
New Mediator (instead of the tie-breaker) for MCC & ONTAP SDS. Mediator is passive appliance, managed from ONTAP. All the logic lives in ONTAP versus previously switchover logic was on the tie-breaker’s side.
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AI learning algorithms based on customer base wisdom provides better insights about risks
APIs with Active IQ
Now you cannot just monitor but take actions and fix risks with Active IQ (which happens through UM)
It also decrease “nose”: Active IC trying to find the root of the problem and solve those problems first which will fix majority of your problems: let’s say you have 100 risks with, but it might happen you can fix 70% with a few fixes
OneCollect available in a container, and now sends info to Active IQ
Active IQ Unified Manager 9.7
Most important improvement is actions with simple “Fix it” button
New cluster security section in the dashboard
Integration with NetApp Service Level Manager, which is now free and included in ONTAP
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Why do you like WAFLs? 