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ONTAP Technical Reports

FlexCache and FlexGroup volume technical reports

Contributors netapp-chrisgeb

NetApp NAS solutions simplify data management and help you keep pace with growth while optimizing costs. ONTAP NAS solutions give you nondisruptive operations, proven efficiency, and seamless scalability within a unified architecture. Powered by ONTAP, scale-out NAS leverages the massive ONTAP ecosystem, with a significant innovation lead and vision for aggressive future innovation.

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These technical reports expand on the ONTAP FlexCache volume and ONTAP FlexGroup volume product documentation.

FlexCache

TR-4743: FlexCache in ONTAP
FlexCache is a caching technology that creates sparse, writable replicas of volumes on the same or different ONTAP clusters. It can bring data and files closer to the user for faster throughput with a smaller footprint. Learn how FlexCache can be used, the recommended practices, limits, and considerations for design and implementation.

FlexGroup volumes

TR-4571a: FlexGroup top ten best practices
This technical report is a condensed version of TR-4571: NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes best practices and implementation guide for quick consumption.

TR-4557: NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes - A technical overview
Learn about FlexGroup volumes, an ONTAP scale-out NAS container, that blends near-infinite capacity with predictable, low-latency performance in metadata-heavy workloads.

TR-4571: NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes best practices and implementation guide
Learn about FlexGroup volumes, recommended practices and implementation tips. FlexGroup volumes are an evolution of ONTAP scale-out NAS containers, that blends nearly infinite capacity with predictable, low latency performance in metadata-heavy workloads.

TR-4678: Data protection and backup of FlexGroup volumes
Learn about data protection and backup for FlexGroup volumes including Snapshot copies, SnapMirror, and other data protection and backup solutions.