Today in the talk: NetApp FabricPool. Or: “Bridging (All-Flash) FAS systems with the hybrid cloud(s)”. Introduction With NetApp FabricPool you can attach a S3 storage (NetApp StorageGRID, Amazon S3 or any other compatible) to an All-Flash FAS system and make it’s aggregates hybrid thereby. It could be used to move your cold data (i.e. snapshot… Read More »
A few months after our first NetApp StorageGRID Webscale PoC we came back for another PoC. This time: Virtual Appliances on VMware vSphere. A perfect solution for small environments and if you already have a virtual environment. After modifying some scripts, the deployment was really easy and fast: a 5-Node cluster including Gateway- and Admin-Node in… Read More »
First of all: what is StorageGRID Webscale? It is a software-defined object-based storage platform from NetApp. It was born about 2000 formaly known as Bycast StorageGRID – in 2010, NetApp bought this technology and give it its new name. It can be accessed via Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift protocols. With “NAS Bridge” you could… Read More »