Category Archives: NetApp

NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP for NetApp Filers - Overview.

NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP for NetApp Filers - Process

NetBackup 7.7.1 introduced some new features and one of them was Accelerator for NDMP for NetApp Filers. Accelerator improves full backup performance by only transferring changed blocks between backups and NetBackup Media Server combines changed blocks with previous backup to create synthetic full. Let's uncover the following topics: How Accelerator works with NDMP backups for… Read More: NetBackup Accelerator for NDMP for NetApp Filers - Overview. »

Provisioning Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and vSphere 6.

Some days ago we discussed the prerequisites for provisioning VVOLs on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and vSphere 6. We have installed the NetApp Virtual Storage Console 6.0 and NetApp VASA 6.0. In this post we will see how VVOLs work in practice: create a Storage Capability Profile (SCP) provision a VVOL datastore some tests of… Read More: Provisioning Virtual Volumes (VVOLs) on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and… »

What are the prerequisites for VVOLs on NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP and vSphere 6.0?

As I described in my another post What's new in vSphere 6.0 - Virtual Volumes, VVOLs let you manage your storage at the virtual machine level instead of the datastore level. NetApp is one of the first storage vendor supporting VVOL. In this post I will show how to configure VVOL to be able to… Read More: What are the prerequisites for VVOLs on NetApp Clustered Data… »