Protecting NetApp ONTAP Workloads with Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) – Part 2 – Simulating Ransomware Attacks on VMware VMFS Datastores
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the fundamentals of NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP), including its architecture,…
Protecting NetApp ONTAP Workloads with Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP) – Part 1 – Fundamentals
This post is Part 1 of a four-part series about NetApp ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP). NetApp ONTAP provides built-in…
How to Migrate from vSphere Standard Switch (VSS) to vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) – and Back Again
The vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) provides centralized network management across multiple ESXi hosts and offers advanced features such as Network…
Cheat Sheet Microsoft Hyper-V
This cheat sheet provides a practical collection of useful Microsoft Hyper-V and Failover Clustering commands for day-to-day administration and troubleshooting….
Deploying NetApp ONTAP Select in VMware vSphere – Running ONTAP as a Virtual Storage Appliance – Part 2
In part 1 of this series, we saw how to deploy a two-node ONTAP Select cluster in a VMware vSphere…
Deploying NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) in Azure using NetApp Console (formerly BlueXP) – Part 8 – Disaster Recovery
In this part of this series, we shift the focus to business continuity. Disaster Recovery (DR) is a critical component…
Deploying NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) in Azure using NetApp Console (formerly BlueXP) – Part 3 – Configuring Data Services
In this part of the series, we move on to configuring the actual data services on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP…
How to Shrink a Linux VMware vSphere Virtual Disk (VMDK) and Its Associated Logical Volume
Allocating additional storage to a virtual machine in VMware vSphere is straightforward, you simply increase the size of the virtual…
Mastering Hyper-V Clusters with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) transforms local disks into highly available, software-defined storage for Hyper-V clusters, without the need for a…
Cheat Sheet NetApp ONTAP – Commands used in day-to-day operations
Working with NetApp ONTAP often means jumping between clusters, SVMs, LIFs, and shares while keeping an eye on performance and…