#╭・introduce-yourself

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patent carbon
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Hello everyone! For those that don't know me, my name is Nick, and I have been a geek since the first time I took the VCR apart as a kid because a VHS tape unwound and got stuck. I've installed generators outside datacenters, pulled cables through office buildings, got my MCSE2k/CCNA, virtualized a public healthcare company with over 1000 VMs, and did it almost exclusively on NetApp storage. I found a love for blogging and content in the late 00's and have been making content ever since. Most recently, I've been building my DatacenterDude channel on YouTube and would love it if you would subscribe. For the past three years, I've worked in the Office of the CTO for our Cloud Portfolio, and it's been a hella-fun ride seeing it all come to life and continue to evolve. On a crazy, hair-brained idea, I put together the original concept for the NetApp discord in the summer of 2021, thinking no one would like it. When I showed it to some peers, they loved it and the rest is history. I'm so happy you're all here with us, and look forward to growing this community of NetApp enthusiasts here, on YouTube, and beyond!

charred mauve
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👋🏻 Hi folks, just to introduce myself, my name is Ross and I am one of the mods here on the NetApp Community Discord. Spent most of my time at NetApp in the Customer Support side of things. I'm originally from the SolidFire world before NetApp and prior to that was in the service provider world. I have a passion for helping educate anyone who will listen about all the cool bells and whistles that you can leverage when it comes to our Digital Support capabilities. Check out Digital Support Insights playlist on netapp.tv if you're curious. Just starting to get involved in content creation! If you have any questions about Digital Advisor, Support, or NetApp, just say hello.

fading marsh
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Hey Ya'll. I'm Mike, i'm at ATS/TAM/SE here at NetApp. In past lives i've been both an Enterprise Customer as well as PS and SE at a Partner. Addtional to my roles here at NetApp i'm also very active with the NLS (NetApp Learning Services) group in helping to develop certifications.

In my spare time I enjoy, cooking, BBQ, mixology, photography, Legos, travel and gaming (both analog and digital)

For those coming over from Reddit i'm also nom_the_ack over at /r/netapp.

bitter fossil
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As the nameplate says, I'm Drew-- Community Manager here at NetApp. 👋
My team's focus is on Digital Support experience (think KB, Community, and Support Site), but certainly isn't limited to those areas. If you see anything unexpected on our sites, @ me so we can take a look.

I joined NetApp in January 2020 after 10 years in enterprise networking support, network lab management, and community management. That came after spending four years in NC State's Computer Engineering program before changing my mind, and ultimately graduating with a B.S. in Meteorology ⛈️

Outside of all this, I love to travel and see new places. I also appreciate good games, good music, good food, and good beers. 🍻:

If you've got any questions, feedback, or ideas about the NetApp discord , share with us in the #╰・help-with-discord channel. Glad you're here!

fickle jungle
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Howdy! I'm one of NetApp's Support Account Managers - we have two roles - reactive, to ensure issues are resolved quickly, and proactive, providing regular reviews and advice to customers. SAMs are a value added service - have a chat to your account team for more info, it can either be included in renewals/pricing, or as a seperate purchase. I'm based in Perth Australia, but previously lived in Vancouver Canada. I'm into retrocomputing (Macintosh mostly), electronics and woodworking. Like @fading marsh I'm also on Reddit as /u/theducks

keen coral
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Morning all. I'm David Brown, the NetApp architect at Softcat in the UK. A fairly new role for me, having moved from working within professional services for over 15 years. You can find me on Twitter @dbtechone and my blog at dbtechblog.weebly.com

flat spruce
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My name is Paul (obviously). I'm a Perf Technical Suppot Engineer in Wichita, KS. I'm generally active here and have been around NetApp for over 10 years now. My passions are becoming coding, reading, and hopefully guitar soon, and learning anything and everything (especially science and things about the body).

mossy thunder
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My name is Philipp, I work as a Senior Datacenter Engineer at Netcloud in Switzerland. I design and build primary storage & compute solutions and work with NetApp for more than 10 years. Currently my focus is a bit more on compute due to a very intense and deep relationship with Cisco‘s business units for UCS and Intersight. My focus in general is performance, which let me play with newer technologies like NVMeoF. I also optimise customer vSphere environments, getting into CPU vendor release notes etc. I’m doing a bit PowerShell and started with python recently. I like to give feedback to vendors because it looks like most vendors do not understand the needs of European and smaller customers. I like to have live sessions with PMs or engineering like we had during Insight. I also like the work of Nick and the team for this discord channel and the events happening here

grave holly
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Hey everyone. I'm Chirs and i'm one of our leader Developers on most of our Ansible Collection and Terraform Providers. I also work on a few of our internal tools. I've been at NetApp for almost 15 years, in the Sunnyvale/San Jose CA office.

In my spare time I enjoy cooking, playing video games, building models, traveling and photography.

shut goblet
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Hey All, I'm a Principal Technologist for Cloud Insights cloudinsights, based in the Netherlands. I've been with NetApp since 2013 after joining while still a university student. Through most of my time with this company I've been focused on manageability and observability topics going back to the likes of Data Fabric Manager and OnCommand Balance, but have been working with Cloud Insights since before it was a thing. On my spare time I cook and bbq a lot, do a fair bit of gaming, and take the occasional day hike. I would have said I also homebrew but I've gotten way too lax about doing it with any consistency anymore - maybe I should take up cheesemaking instead?

flat spruce
shut goblet
flat spruce
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Cool!

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I thought I recognized your name.

fickle jungle
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hey @jaunty trout , good to see you here!

livid bear
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Hi all, nice to meet you all. I'm CTO at Creative ITC, we have a fairly large MSP estate. Interested to see the posts on here and contribute where I can.

jaunty trout
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Likewise @fickle jungle

half sand
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Hi all, I'm Stephen Phillips former NetApper lurking to keep up with where the company is at, and listen to familiar voices spreading the knowledge we all crave.

graceful oriole
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Howdy all y'all. I'm Ed Wilts and I manage all things storage for a major EDA (Electronics Design Automation) company in the Silicon Hills (Austin, TX). I've been managing storage for a few decades and NetApp for a couple of those. Just saying the name of my biggest cluster may still cause shudders amongst the OnTap performance experts :). In my spare time I curl (on ice, in Austin!) and photograph birds.

patent carbon
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Love reading all of these! Thanks for sharing and being a part of our community here!

flat spruce
winter fog
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Hi all, I'm a Senior Escalations Engineer for NetApp support. I've been working in the NetApp support center since 2005 (ONTAP 7 anyone?) and some days I feel like the support historian. I specialize in SnapCenter on Unix platforms, specifically with the Oracle plug-in and if that's not enough I also work the Astra Trident and Astra Control products. When I'm not working I'm either paramotoring or spending time with my family and dreaming of paramotoring.

peak urchin
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Greetings NetApp Discord members. I am the Developer Relations Manager at Spot by NetApp. I handle outreach and advocacy enabling practitioners to use the Spot portfolio of products to their fullest potential to help run and deploy optimally. I joined last fall and have a background as an SRE, Cloud Architect, Digital Forensics and Incident Response. I love infrastructure as code and DevOps. When I am not working, you can find me tinkering on my 2017 Toyota Tacoma overland build, Scuba Diving (yes, even in Utah, where I am based, I still find places to dive), Camping, or attending college sports.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions about the Spot product line, or anything else DevOpsy or Cloud Operations related! I can't guarantee I know it all, but I will do whatever I can to help and track down the resources needed.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard!

fickle jungle
peak urchin
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😂😂😂😂😂

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She and I are two wildly different people

hoary echo
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Hello all, I'm Daniel, a Professional Services Consultant at NetApp based in Germany. I've been working with Netapp about 11 Years now and I joined NetApp in 2022. I specialize in Core ONTAP, as well as our Cloud Solutions on GCP like CVS/CVO and I am also into the Spot Portfolio helping our customers from a post sales perspective. Also Astra is more like a passion project for me but I quite enjoy doing modern apps 😉
In my spare time I have a podcast in German language which is called "BURN 4 IT" together with two buddies. This Podcast is about people and topics in IT, from DataCenter to Cloud and from Server to Container we BURN 4 IT.
If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.

charred mauve
hoary echo
peak urchin
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Welcome @hoary echo

hoary echo
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Hi all... My name is Alex and I´m since 2019 Partner Manager at NetApp in Germany. I´m the responsible for a part of partners in the North/East of Germany. I love technology, especially our technology and I hope to lear a lot here. My way in the IT starts in 1988 when I start development in Basic with the age of 6. Since then, my love to the technology grows the whole time. My hobbies are located in Home Automation, IT Security and AI. I wish us a great time here 🙂

charred mauve
stoic perch
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Hi everyone. My name is Kritsada and I works at Bangkok Bank in Thailand on system engineer role and I take care on Unix server part, not storage but my company use NetApp so I have to know some about NetApp storage to easy communicate with our storage team and NetApp supporter so I like to join this community for up my knowledge based.

charred mauve
patent carbon
wary wasp
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Hi NetApp gurus. People call me Eddie. I’m a consultant in the VMware space but trying to get way more familiar with NetApp this year. Great to see the large community here!

fickle jungle
snow juniper
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Hello everyone. I joined a Discord community on 12/03/2021 but now I introduce myself. I don't know why but I couldn't introduce my self because I was too embarrassed. My name is Jisoo and i'm working at south korea and i am system enginner. I think many korean doesn't know about this community. English is not my native language, so I'm not good at it, but I'm getting a lot of information through the community and I'm always thankful!

charred mauve
nimble anchor
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Hi everyone... like @snow juniper I joined discord earlier, but never got the push to introduce myself... but the relaunch may be a good opportunity... 😃
So my name is Sven Prause... I'm system engineer at Deichmann in Germany and working with NetApp for 🤔 ... 15 years or so now... so yes @winter fog I know Ontap 7 too 😉 my main topics are Ontap and Backup/SnapCenter... but it look's automation will become more important here... 👀
Feels good to have a platform like this for the community...
Hope to see some of you in 2 days @Insight EMEA on the Hockenheimring... 😃

ornate sage
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Hi everyone! I'm Romuald, a Belgian 🇧🇪 system engineer. I have been using NetApp systems for 15 years now but my company has been NetApp customer since 2001!
I'm mainly a Linux guy (focusing on RHEL derived distributions). I also manage our VMware environment and also NetApp. We are mainly using NAS systems (no SAN) and we also have a small StorageGRID infrastructure (I really like StorageGRID).
I love technos like Ansible, Terraform, ... and I'm definitly like to use Bash to write my (not so) useful scripts.
As you probably will notice, English is not my mother language but I try to do my best.
I'm really happy to be part of the NetApp community! 🥳

pine pier
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@pine pier Allen here. I am the Product Marketing Manager for BlueXP. I have been in the industry forever as an engineer, integrator, systems engineer, network administrator, product manager, and now PMM. I have a background in networking, virtualization, IW, edge, core and cloud, plus a strong VDI background. Now I am 100% in on Modern Platforms. I am based in Colorado and love it! I have 4 four legged kids that keep me busy. I love movies, traveling, camping, and the outdoors.

charred mauve
patent carbon
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I used to sit on the balcony in Boulder for HOURS…

fickle jungle
fading marsh
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Boulder is a great office. Great Snacks.

half bolt
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Hey all, I'm a System Engineer/DevOps from France, I started working with NetApp not so long ago, trying to have a robust Bare Metal K8S infrastructure using volumes from NetApp. 🙂
This Discord is a nice idea and as a french person, I'm enjoying the presence of the #┊・food discussion 😆
When I'm not automating things, I like to play video games, or doing a bit or 3D modeling 🙂

ember stump
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Hello there, I am Spencer Hamons, and I am an Executive Architect at NetApp. I work in Professional Services, and I am on the team that delivers our Service Design / Cloud Design Workshops. Basically, think of these as free consulting activities that we do with our customers. Some customers are looking to make their on-premises data centers be more "cloud-like" and to deliver services "the way the cloud does", and we help our customers accomplish that. Other customers are looking to embrace a hybrid multicloud strategy, and for those customers, we use data to show them ways to do that in a way that aligns wit their goals. Some customers want to move fast, others want to be cost effective, others want to use certain services - we let the data guide us down those paths. Finally, other customers have committed spends with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, and can use the data to show them how to get the most value of that committed money, and how to start using that commit quickly. When I'm not working, I have a Piper Saratoga airplane and love to use it to travel with my wife.

charred mauve
solid tide
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Hello all, my name is Sjoerd and I'm a Technology Consultant at a Global System Integrator in The Netherlands. I'm responsible for hybrid datacenter solutions with NetApp in specific.
I started working with NetApp in 2007 (with the good old NetApp FilerView 😃 ) as a Service&Support Engineer in the Caribbean. After the introduction of Cluster Mode I switched to a PS job doing NetApp implementations.
Happy to be here on the Discord Channel!

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Sjoerd!

prime sage
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Greetings from Denmark (not the capital of Sweden) I have been working technically with NetApp for the past 20 years in roles at different integrators and resellers in Denmark. Yep that's right.. when I installed my first NetApp system it was a whole different ball game... F700-series was running on Alpha CPUs and we used at least 7 floppy disks to initially install ONTAP (maybe it was more, I forgot)... For the past 9 years I have had my own little consultancy company where I also sell a few NetApp boxes while still working very much with the technical side... Looking forward to this "new" discord format, which replaces the good old toaster mailing lists (which I think is pretty much dead anyway)...

charred mauve
fading marsh
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"please insert disk 100 of 400"

high parrot
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From Ohio in US. Very new to much of this and I greatly appreciate the help I have received here.

fickle jungle
solid tide
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@fickle jungle St Maarten is great, specially the night life 🕺 🍺

fickle jungle
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I’m a big ✈️ fan 🙂

solid tide
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Maho Beach is perfect for plane spotting, you can almost touch them

barren coyote
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😎

heady skiff
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Hi people, former Netapp employee in the support center til 2011 or so after I left to do PSC work onsite at an Apple DC, i was looking for the ontap select eval info and found discord linked on the now site(remember when we called it that) worked with ONTAP since ~5.5 or so

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard! I remember saying "Log in with your NOW account" 🤣

heady skiff
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Yep, the NOW site! 😆

light coral
light coral
quaint mantle
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Hello everyone! Dan here from 🇵🇭 I'm interested in learning more about NetApp, and I'm hoping to connect with some knowledgeable individuals who can help me out. I've heard great things about NetApp's storage solutions and data management tools, and I want to understand more about how they can benefit organizations.

I'm eager to learn from the experts in this community and to engage in some interesting discussions. If anyone has any resources or recommendations on where to start, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you all for your time and I'm looking forward to being a part of this community!

stuck rock
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Hello, Manni from NetApp Germany here.

scarlet moss
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Hi, Shashank from NetApp RTP, I work on simplicity. In the past I worked on CounterManager & QoS.

ornate terrace
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👋 Hi everyone! Erika here from NetApp. I'm a UX designer currently working on BlueXP. I've also worked on Astra and our VMware plugins.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Erika!

steady sorrel
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Hey everyone! I'm also a UX Designer working for NetApp. Right now, I'm working on a combo of BlueXP and Astra. Looking forward to getting a little closer to the community on here and understanding the problems + successes that they're having.

charred mauve
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Welcome @steady sorrel and @ornate terrace

midnight ermine
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Hello all
I am Anup from Netapp India (Instaclustr originally)

charred mauve
pure cedar
untold oriole
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Hi all! I lead the Product Management team for Solutions at NetApp. Focused on a diverse set of areas including AI, Analytics, Data Lakes, Hybrid Multicloud w/ VMware, Enterprise Databases, native cloud services migration, and more. Happy to be here! Looking forward to participating in the community.

patent carbon
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Welcome! Happy to have you onboard, Russell!

sullen hollow
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Hi all! i´m Gonzalo Seoane from SouthData in Argentina/Chile . I´m from Uruguay . I´m currently working with NetApp Cloud Solution 70% of the time and the other 30% with OnPrem . I have been working with NetApp Solutions for the past 14 years .

bitter fossil
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You've been with us here in Discord for a while too now! Thanks for saying hello!

elder radish
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Bienvenido Gonzalo @sullen hollow

gaunt summit
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Hello All. My name is Eugene Lee and I was a former NetApp consultant but now working my second tour of duty back at AMD 😄

patent carbon
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Welcome @sullen hollow and @gaunt summit! Happy to have AMD in the house!

knotty oriole
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Hi everyone, I'm an oracle developer and curious in python. I'm working on the automation project in the generation of clones of Oracle Bank with API SnapCenter.
Very happy to participate and contribute here.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Marco! Thanks for joining us!

foggy zealot
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Hi friends! I'm Andrew Mills, a technologist for the last 15+ years and Kafka/Big Data Pipeline architect for the last ~7 years. I work as a Sr. Solutions Architect for Instaclustr, helping us sell Managed Kafka! I live in Norman, OK USA, married since 2010 and have 2 boys, 9 and 6.

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Also, thanks for inviting me to this platform @peak urchin

peak urchin
obtuse sand
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Hello everyone!
Young french engineer, freshly graduated, I just started to discover the whole NetApp environment recently because of my professional activity!
Currently in rise of competence I come to join the Discord to feed my curiosity with surely full of questions to come!!! 🤓

charred mauve
fading marsh
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Greetings and welcome.

patent carbon
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Bonjour @obtuse sand! @edgy arch will be happy there's another from France here. 🙂

versed nacelle
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Hello everyone. Happy i found this discord. Just recently got into the NetAPP realm. Any advice or tips would be accepted.

bitter fossil
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We're happy you found us too! Welcome!

lavish bronze
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I am so new to NetApp but not new to SAN and FC storage devices, so when I was looking to resolve an issue with my current ESXi and the new FAS8300 I saw there was a discord, so I figured I would join and hopefully reap the benefit of this resource.

wintry onyx
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Hey everyone, hope you have had a great weekend. I am new to cloud computing. I am currently in a cyber security boot camp, and I want to focus on cloud computing. I noticed that NetApp has an internship program for Cloud Engineering, I have researched the information on the website. But I wanted to see if anyone had any insight on it? Thank you. 😄

flat iron
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Hi everyone, Lillian from NetApp in Wichita, KS

patent carbon
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Welcome Lish!

fickle jungle
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Welcome @flat iron ! Please feel free to message drew, mike, nick or myself on Teams if you'd like the Staff badge

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(or any of the other community leads)

knotty sedge
# fading marsh "please insert disk 100 of 400"

It wasn't quite that bad. I think ONTAP 6.0 was only 4 floppies but by the time we got to 6.4 it had gone to 11 floppies or something like that. And hitting a read error on a disk required you to start over. It always happened to me around disk 8 or 9.

elder radish
fickle jungle
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@flat iron all setup as staff!

kind kelp
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Hello everyone. I'm a Cloud Solutions Architect covering Azure NetApp Files and made my way to this platform. Can't wait for Insight '23

patent carbon
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Ut oh, another Nick.

charred mauve
unreal pelican
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Hi everyone, Phani K started working on Ansible automation modules for Netapp/Dell EMC to automate day to day tasks! New to Netapp but not new to SAN/NAS. Joined this group to get help on tasks/resources when I’m struck

patent carbon
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Welcome abord, Amigos! Happy to have ya! You'll find all our automation experts hanging in the #1062048885847117935 forum channel!

haughty charm
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Hello! I'm Kassian (they/them pronouns), and I'm a brand-new Open Source Technology Evangelist working with the Instaclustr team. I'm focusing on Cassandra, Kafka, and Spark at the moment, and am an eternal scholar. Fun fact: both my first and last name are from Star Wars.

keen hawk
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Hello All, My name in Shawn. First time on Discord. I have been working with NetApp for 7-8 years now. I work at a cancer center in Cleveland Ohio. I have been in IT since 8088's were a thing. Joined to find answers, and hopefully help out others if I can.

bitter fossil
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Glad to have both of you join us here! If there's anything the group can help with, just ask.

patent carbon
rugged dawn
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Hello All, my name is Beau.
First timer for NetApp, been working in IT for 2 years now and since i made the swap to IT i love it every day.
Hoping to become an NetApp expert like you guys and learn more and more each day.
Happy to be here

charred mauve
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Welcome @rugged dawn

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, @rugged dawn! You're in the right place! 🙂

brisk obsidian
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I'm Quintus, often just go by Q these days. I started my career over 20 years ago in data storage and was part of that first test team (and in later years helped extend future innovations as product manager) on IBM's SAN Volume Controller that just celebrated 20 years in the market--where has the time gone?! In more recent years, I've been living on the "customer side"--I'll admit, at first it's kind of fun being the one wined and dined instead of the other way around LOL. I've had a lot of positive interaction over the years with NetApp, have had close friends working there, and was happy to discover this community to keep all our storage-wired brains ticking. Thanks for building it @patent carbon. Cheers!

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Q! Happy to have ya!

night harness
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Hi all, name is Nick and I am a Software Engineer from the UK, new to NetApp on the whole, but looking forwards to learning more. Primarilly a Python/PHP/C++ Developer, but looking to broaden my knowledge on Storage and Computer Science.

bitter fossil
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Hey Nick! Welcome!

patent carbon
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I do hereby convene the Council of Nick's, chaired by Nick Oferman. We only serve bacon & eggs.

outer scarab
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Hi Fox ! I'm Francois D from Madeo Consultant, French Netapp Partner and member of "Club des Experts" in France. I'm doing NetApp since 13 years, expert on MetroCluster.

fickle jungle
night harness
regal coral
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@regal coral nice to be here and hope to give and find everything about NetApp. I am a tech consultant for a NetApp partner company in the Netherlands. Working 10+ years with NetApp and NCDA/NCSIE/NCIESAN certified. Working mostly in healtcare in the storage/datamanagement area (Commvault Enginering) Now in a MCIP implementation project with Intellisnap integration and migrating from a MCFC cluster.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Henk! Great to see you here!

old lotus
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Hi. Nice to see that netapp is social. 🙂 i myself am not a native speaker (german is my first language), so sometimes i might sound awkward. Besides my autocorrection tries to "translate" to german. Anyway: hope to find new colleagues. I'm a longterm netapp user (around 20 years) but still learn new things. Public sector. Have a nice day!

charred mauve
worldly niche
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Hello everyone. Michael Pittman from NetApp in RTP. I am coming up on 10 years with NetApp and have been on the NAS team for most of my time here.

patent carbon
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Welcome Michael!

gritty sedge
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I am Wes Talbert, Senior Manager of FlexPod Enablement at NetApp. If you have questions about #FlexPod, just reach out!

fading marsh
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Hey Wes. Drop either myself or Nick a message on Teams and we'll add you a verified NetApp icon.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Wes! Glad to have ya here!

polar zenith
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Hi all, My name is Martijn Moret, I have over 20 years of experience IT, esspecially in storage, backup, DR and virtualisation. Worked for over 12 years at a NetApp partner. This january, I started as an independent consultant. Been a member of several advisory boards and NetApp United. This year I had the honor of becoming an A-team member.
My main focus is on integration (VMware, Commvault, etc) and have a broad knowledge of datacenters and cloud.

keen aspen
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hello all! my Name is Rosario D'Orso, i'm consultant in Italy and French netapp partner. I started working with NetApp not so long ago and so I'm interested in learning more about NetApp 🙂

charred mauve
soft shale
patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Brian! And thanks for contributing! Of course, we encourage contribution to any and all of our open source projects! Fork/PR away!

potent timber
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Hi

misty bough
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Hello! My name is James McShane, im the engineering practice lead at SuperOrbital, a small Kubernetes-focused consulting and training firm. We've been developing a partnership plan with the Spot team to help teams in their Ocean adoption journey. Glad to be a part of this community and feel free to reach out if you ever want to talk K8s!

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, James! Glad to have you here! We definitely need more cloud/Spot expertise and representation! 🤜🤛

misty bough
peak urchin
misty bough
woven gust
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Hello everyone. I'm Keith Williams with the NetApp Customer Assurance Program. I've been with NetApp for coming up on 9 years. My primary focus prior to transitioning to CAP was E-Series Support.

fickle jungle
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welcome @woven gust - if you'd like a staff badge on here, message me or any of the other community leads on teams 🙂

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the CAP team are awesome folks - and I hope no one ever has to talk to you 😄

hazy plaza
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Hi all, I am Richard Pitsnogle. Heavy database background with a passion for architecting. Was in interviews with NetApp for a solution architect database specialist but didn’t make the last round. While researching for the role, came across Nick’s channel and got hooked. NetApp is amazing, FAS, all Flash, ONTAP, etc. looking for my next role to include NetApp.

woven gust
woven gust
bitter fossil
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I'm here all day, Keith. DM me

flat spruce
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Hey Keith.

nocturne lantern
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been here a minute but never did a formal intro

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Hello all, I am John Woodall and am VP and Field CTO Hybrid Cloud for General Datatech. The company I worked for that was acquired by GDT in 2020, IAS was NetApp's first partner and I have been a fan of NetApp for around 23 years.

flat spruce
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Hey John.

fading marsh
opal night
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Hello John

polar ivy
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I'm not sure the best place to ask this, but are there any issues with the ActiveIQ /v1/support/rma/customer endpoint at the moment? I'm getting 504 with a "message": "Endpoint request timed out" and trying to figure out if just me or not. Code has worked in the past

bitter fossil
noble haven
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Good afternoon fine people, I hope this finds you well!! Travis Coates here - an old-school enterprise IT Operations guy turned real estate agent… (it’s a long story, ha!). Anyhow, I like to stay abreast of storage technology, particularly NetApp…. In my last IT job, as a systems engineer at LKQ, I managed a large NetApp footprint (FAS8020s, AFF8080s, & AFF-A700s), and also supported our CiscoUCS, VxRail, and VMware environments. Great job, great team, truly driven by change management…

patent carbon
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A hearty Friday weekend welcome to all the new folks that joined us this week! We hope you’re all enjoying the new channel selection and onboarding experience, and please leave us a note in #╰・help-with-discord if you’d like to see something added, or generally have any issues with what you see or don’t see. We appreciate you all being here, and try to stay cool through the heat wave! 🤘

covert dragon
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Hello again! Was on here up until six months ago when I left NetApp. Spent 5 years as a contractor, and 14.5 years as a SW QA Engineer. Mostly worked on E-Series, but later testing for OnTap, and NetApp Azure Files. Currently in the process of getting hired back to NetApp, so I thought I'd rejoin.

bitter fossil
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Welcome back!

vernal rampart
weary crypt
pseudo elbow
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Hi all!
New to NABox and Grafana but excited to learn more about it! 😄

patent carbon
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Do you happen to live on Drury Lane?!

fickle jungle
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I went checking a few months ago and was really impressed that there are actually a number of muffin stores in Drury Lane in London

balmy echo
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hi everyone 🙂 i'm Nora and i'm a storage admin for an aerospace company in Southern California. we have a fair number of largeish NetApp cDot clusters. i'm mostly here to pick people's minds on getting Harvest and Grafana to play nice.

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i've only been admining storage for ~6 years, so i have much to learn!

fading marsh
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Welcome!

balmy echo
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Thank you!

quick charm
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My name's nikki, and i'm a part of the s3 academy and im a sales dev rep at netapp. Just joined here so I could learn more insightful things about our products and services 🙂 don't mind the mclovin pfp

charred mauve
patent carbon
wispy quarry
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So, Antonio in here, your humble storage engineer Michigan based. Working for VW in USA and Mexico, over 14 years of experience but still learning. Add me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/palomet/

patent carbon
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+10 pts for use of South Park GIF

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Welcome aboard!

bitter marsh
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HI All

patent carbon
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Hi Guarav! Welcome aboard! 🤘

plush plover
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hi guys

patent carbon
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Hi Der!

empty relic
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Hi!

haughty shard
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hi everyone i'm Vincent and i'm a storage admin for an aerospace company in France . I've only been a storage administrator for 6 years and I still have so much to learn. We are average architecture but enough to have fun.

charred mauve
static moss
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Hi, I’m Robert with Proact Netherlands.

north talon
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Hi everyone! I'm Antonin from OVHcloud in France, designing and running a managed ONTAP there! Glad to meet you all 🙏

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Antonin!

grand arch
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Hi everyone 👋 I am Sandresh from India working for a Pharma company in Germany ,as a Storage build and operation engineer, working on Cdot, OTS and Storage grid , here to learn and get more exposure 😊. Pleasure meeting you all🙏🏻

thin jewel
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Hello Everyone, I am Frans Bijma working for E-Storage in the Netherlands.

flat spruce
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Hello Frans!

ripe basin
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Hey there, I'm Philipp. Working with AFF ,FAS and Storage Grid.

hoary echo
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Hey bondia Adrian here from Curacao, just a regular nerd as you all lol

fickle jungle
static moss
fickle jungle
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🤫

thorn sparrow
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👋

coral sequoia
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Hello, My name is Emma from France i'm a storage engineer working for the University of Montpellier.

patent carbon
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Bienvenue, Emma! Enchantée! @edgy arch is our resident representative from Paris.

oblique compass
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Hey everyone, this is Mike, platform and data center engineer working for a government customer at Ft. Liberty NC. Getting ready to life cycle our 4 FAS9000's for 9500's should be a good time.

charred mauve
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Welcome @oblique compass to the NetApp Discord Community! 🙂

shy vine
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Hi! I‘m Philip from Germany. Looking after a lil A200 Flexpod system

edgy arch
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Bienvenue Emma !

vast gyro
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Hello everyone!

night shard
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Hello everybody ! I'm Emilien from France/Luxembourg and i work with Openshift for clients

grizzled mountain
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Hello everyone! I'm Ty from Kentucky. I'm a Systems/Storage Administrator for a hospital system here. Running a few FAS8200s and A300s, getting ready for some upgrades!

azure pumice
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Hello to everyone!

dark frost
storm glen
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Hello everyone

gusty mulch
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Hello there

bitter fossil
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Welcome!

quasi umbra
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Hello everyone

atomic hound
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hi everyone

quasi umbra
patent carbon
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Welcome aboard @atomic hound!

olive vigil
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hello

opal timber
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I am Shaun George from IT Hardware Group Limited.

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Here to learn something exciting and to expand my knowledge on NetApp Products. Thanks for letting me in

patent carbon
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Welcome about Shaun!

steel galleon
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Hi All , I am venkat

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can i recommend NetApp Cloud for freshers? how is market for it

lost bobcat
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Hi All, I am pradeesh, want to learn basics for cloud -devops integration

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard!

mighty mauve
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hello im alex i do satcom for the military im a basic user always trying to get better.

bitter fossil
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Welcome Alex

plucky stream
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Hello, I am Haroon Rashid from Dubai, working as an NetApp SE for a disti in Dubai ( pardon my username, thats for my gaming socials😅 )

rugged wyvern
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Hi, I'm Alessandro, I'm a sysadmin 🙂

flat spruce
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Hello @plucky stream and @rugged wyvern

patent carbon
plucky stream
hoary echo
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Hi, I'm Alessandra from GPSO, the NetApp team driving localization of company content in multiple languages. 👋

trail raven
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Hello everyone, I have the opportunity to purchase cheap new NAF-1703 NETAPP SOLIDFIRE H610S 1U, I would like to use it as a nas storage or as an esxi host, how can I do it, I did not find any documentation for anyone to do this.
I found one post by someone who talks about how to fix fan speed after installing Proxmox and he says that he discussed it in this chat.

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Maybe there is someone here who has done something similar?

bitter fossil
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@trail raven Welcome to our Discord 🙂

I believe the conversation you're referencing begins here: #┊・just-chatting message
Follow along in the chat there and take additional questions to #┊・storage. VMware/ESXi wasn't specifically discussed, but it's a start.

trail raven
slate hill
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Hey, I‘m Frank from Advanced UniByte and besides loving the FlexPod I do little videos in my free time…

nocturne vector
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Hello!

bitter fossil
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Hey Frank nice to meet you

subtle basin
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Hi,guys

bitter fossil
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Hi @subtle basin

sinful igloo
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Hi everybody, maybe some of you already know me, I'm Oliver from Münster/Germany and I work for German Banks and do a lot of Metrocluster as well as normal ONTAP. I love automating with Ansible and scripting things. I also use Storagegrid and in my previous role I did the scale-out Design for a large ONTAP system with 64 nodes in 6 clusters. What I learned through many great discussions here @Insight is that I want to try the new Snapmirror as well as Ransomware Protection ASAP.

bitter fossil
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@sinful igloo make sure you see me today! I have a Discord pin for you 😁

sinful igloo
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You gave me one Yesterday...

bitter fossil
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😆 excellent! I knew you’d join us here. You have the attendee role now too.

quick oar
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Hi all, Alan from Logicalis Irl. Been a partner of NetApp for 17yrs, cutting my teeth on 200 and 900's with a suitcase of floppy disks in tow, covering all on-prem offerings incl flexpod. While I spend more time talking these days, I still keep my hands dirty and maintain first-hand experience of all the tech that NetApp have to offer. Enjoying being back at Insight after a 4yr hiatus

bitter fossil
sinful igloo
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Hey Alan, Welcome! FAS900 are cool, they were my first systems, too.... But I also have Boot Disks for F740 with DEC Alpha lying around somewhere

quick oar
quick oar
sinful igloo
# quick oar The good ol' days...

My First Task was a headswap FAS920 to 960, the second was to update to ONTAP 6.5 which featured raid_dp so we could go from syncmirrored raid4 to raid_dp and get a lot more space... OMG, I'm old🙈

quick oar
bitter fossil
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It closed at 3 😕

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I’ll add the role for you anyway

quick oar
vast cliff
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Hello, new to storage and new to Netapp, just looking to get a better understanding of it in General. Thanks

patent carbon
vast cliff
hoary echo
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Hello, real noob on netapp. Here to ask some (basic) questions

steep fjord
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Hey

cosmic flame
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heyy there,
i have a question about my grafana system. its not reciving any data 💀

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and also i have a question about my ESX's VAAI.
I want to know how to check from my netapp cli if its enabled and workin 🤘

fading marsh
cosmic flame
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oh yeah hahaha

honest patrol
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Good morning!

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Newbie here about to come into possession of several bouncing baby New Old NetApp 8040s.

bitter fossil
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Morning! and welcome!

barren glade
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Hi there, I'm a long time NetApper (since 2009). I'm working on an internal implementation of a Harvest solution. I wanted to join this server for guidance.

fading marsh
nocturne sapphire
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Mr. Ameya Sathe working from Pune, India. Netapp ONTAP administrator for few years, but most of the years interacted with the Netapp server from linux client side in form of blade, VMs, containers and latest exposure is via Netapp Astra Trident.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Mr Sathe!

fallow panther
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👋 Hello, my first netapp was a F7xx running an alpha cpu, loved that thing, I ran a few generations of netapp since, and now I'm running a FAS3250 and a FAS2552, welcome everyone!

sinful igloo
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Hey @fallow panther welcome, I hear F700, i press "like"

barren glade
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How can I get the fancy blue N for staff? I’m staff 🙂

bitter fossil
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Message me or any of the Community Leads on Teams @barren glade

barren glade
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Thanks

bitter fossil
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Glad to have you join

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Want to share a little bit about what you do here?

barren glade
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Sure. I joined Netapp as a TSE2 in 2009. “Data ONTAP 7.3.2” had just been released.

I worked in support for 2 years in a “San Virt Perf” specialist. I then left to join the Rapid Response Engineering (RRE), doing SAN Interop PVR testing. I used to be very active on the IMT Feedback mailing list for SE’s asking whether a certain version of OS/driver/FW would be supported. My team was absorbed into System Test a few years back and I’m the lead test automation developer for STE-Switch and STE-Metrocluster.

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Oh, how could I forget my time as QA / QA automation engineer for early versions of Snapcreator

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard!

barren glade
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Thanks! I used to read “datacenterdude.com” way back in the day. Like “Netapp releases Virtual Storage Console 1.0 to manage your ESX 4 clusters!”

flat spruce
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VSC1 😄

hoary echo
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Hey, working as a Datacenter Engineer at a NetApp Partner at Austria. Excited to get more engaged with the community here.

patent carbon
patent carbon
thorny sandal
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Hey there - I am Alex from Montreal, Canada and support as SME all stuff Netapp (OnTap , storage grid, hw, sw etc) as an external contractor 🙂

thorny sandal
patent carbon
barren glade
fair pecan
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Hey, my name is Mohd Zain Iqbal, working as a trainee at a Netapp partner in Delhi.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard!

proven trellis
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Hey Folks,
I've got our (first, NetApp Newbie here) NetApp MCC IP just installed last month and just learning couple of things.
We are an it service company located austria, providing hosting, housing an cloud services to our customers.

I'm really looking forward in our NetApp future and I am already stoked about the possibilities which are provided.
Greetings, Roland

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Roland! Glad to have ya!

flat spruce
stable heath
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Hello, my name is Jorge Vasallo and I work with NetAPP products in Uruguay.

patent carbon
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Bienvenidos, Jorge! Mucho gusto!

fringe plume
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Hello I'm Ignacio from Uruguay, I'm glad to be here.
I also work with NetAPP products!

fickle jungle
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How’s NetApp going in Uruguay? Always interested to hear about other parts of the world!

barren karma
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Hello everyone! I’m David Paul, I had the pleasure of meeting some great NetApp people in Las Vegas at Insight. Thanks @patent carbon for the pin and getting me into the discord. I’m in The south Florida area.

patent carbon
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Welcome and thanks for joining us!

ancient acorn
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Hello I am Craig from the Great State of Texas. I have been working with Netapp gear since 2008 and looking for new ways to keep up with the developments.

patent carbon
graceful oriole
ancient acorn
patent carbon
graceful oriole
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I don't believe so unless he happened to be at a meeting and I forgot him. My SE (Heston) is based in Austin. So is my exec sponsor (Eric Stoltman).

pine night
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Hi, Tomislav from Croatia. New in storage , lets say a career change as the whole storage team quit their jobs recentlly

flat spruce
faint summit
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Hi, Alexandre from France, storage expert in NAS and SAN. I begin automation development with Ansible

empty pendant
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Oh, Hi all, didn't even see this channel, I'm Conor, I'm with Yahoo as a Data center engineer
We have a healthy amount of filer equipment at our DC's

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Conor!

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Yahoo is one of our longest-standing customers for decades now, so excited you’re here!

pure bison
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Welcome Conor! I don't recall your name, but you've probably been my hands when I was at Yahoo! OATH VMG

empty pendant
pure bison
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I haven't been there since 2019, so we didn't cross paths

halcyon skiff
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Hello. I'm Gorian, and I manage infrastructure for some datacenters at Intel

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Gorian! Happy to have ya here!

halcyon skiff
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thanks ^.^

hoary echo
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Hello everyone! I'm David, Software Eng at checkmk (Germany). Based in Germany, born in Italy.
I'm also always happy to network (and help, when possible) so... feel free to jump in my dm 🙂

bitter fossil
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Glad to have you here, David!

cerulean acorn
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I have an issue with Astra. The error is a 'segfault,' which causes my Astra service to restart, and my channels stop broadcasting. I've checked the hardware, and my server meets the requirements, but I still encounter this error. Could you please help me?

bitter fossil
cerulean acorn
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ok, thank you.

gritty kestrel
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Hi, this is Dennis, SE at CANCOM (Germany)

hoary echo
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Good day everyone!

midnight scroll
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Hi This is Xiaokai ,SE at Lenovo NetApp

covert nymph
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Hi, Yakov, Devops Infrastructure , working a lot with NetApp

bitter fossil
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It's awesome to see so many people joining us here on Discord!

thorn viper
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Hi, Dan here, I'm in the FSxN team as a Cloud Solutions Architect @ NetApp

half skiff
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Hello, Daniel user of many trident and netapp systems.

warm jay
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Hello, Janos here, storage admin/engineer for 15 years in HU, DE, UK, now working on ansible playbooks to automate ONTAP share provisioning, resizing, deletion and some StorageGrid bucket provisioning, decommissioning tasks.

hoary lodge
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Hi, Thanks for having me here!

proper scroll
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hello i am admin system on Netapp Cdot and 7Mode.I'm from France and i practice my netapp skill on flackbox lab .

graceful oriole
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7mode? That hurts.

hoary echo
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Hey Hey - glad to be here, being an SE for about 12 years now

craggy wedge
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Hi, I am Jose currently based in Dubai and with 17 years of experience with NetApp products. Nice to meet you all🙂

flat spruce
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Welcome everyone!

grizzled root
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Ngọc Chị Ông Nội - IYKYK
I have a few HA clusters with Lenovo branding used in an OLTP environment. My past NetApp experience is well over 20 years old, from a small UNIX/Windows hetero environment.

balmy echo
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Happy day after Christmas, everyone!

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I’m Nora… i own some cDot clusters

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I’ve been a Jill of All Trades for over 25 years, and have only been admining storage for a few years now

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I’m based in Los Angeles, California and work for an aerospace company

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I’m specifically here to watch and learn, and what i want to focus on is getting my clusters on a CheckMK dashboard

brisk snow
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I'm Olasunkanmi Ogundele, Nigerian. A professional service engineer at Eforb Nigeria - a NetApp partner.

thorn viper
somber talon
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Hello everyone, I am Cyril, engineer in France, and I work with Netapp equipment, among other things.

patent carbon
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Bonjour! 🤘

crystal jasper
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Hello

harsh moth
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Hello! I'm Lauren, I'm a PSC in NA.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, @harsh moth!

vital dagger
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Hi everyone, my Name is Florian, I'm from Germany and I am now back in touch with Netapp at my new job. Really enjoying all the NetApp on Air Episodes to get me up to speed regarding all the changes and new stuff since I've last worked with NetApp Systems.

@patent carbon any plans on when NetApp on Air is going live again?

frigid lily
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Hello all, this is Sylvain ARNAUD from NetApp France ATS team, ready to take part of some discussion, but not available a lot... @patent carbon we met quickly last year (2022 !) in Barcelona for VMworld during our event at the hotel

bitter fossil
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Welcome, Sylvain!

patent carbon
patent carbon
flat spruce
stoic current
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Hi All - I'm a Principal IT Security Consultant for SMEs in USA. Looking forward to connecting regarding ONTAP solutions.

modest flicker
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Hello, I am Jonas from Germany. I work with ONTAP and StorageGRID. I am eager to learn more about automation here 🙂

sinful igloo
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hey @modest flicker great to see you here 😉

visual glade
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Hello, I'm a senior software developer at Verint, trying to integrate with Netapp using ONTAP rest api.

karmic shadow
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Hello all, I'm Geovanny from Costa Rica, I worked 2.5 years as TSE in CR, and 5 years (current) working on a partner, making pre sales, post sales, troubleshooting, installation ontap, MCC-IP, MCC-FC, Flexpod, Snapmirror, SVM-DR etc.. certifed NCDA, NCSIE, NCIE SAN, VCP, CMNA, looking for a opportunity to work on NetApp one day!!!

flint burrow
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Hey!

I'm a student at Wake Technical Community College :), so just around the corner from the RTP location. I'm very early in my cloud career but I'm enjoying it thoroughly so far. I've actually applied for a few intern positions at NetApp for this upcoming summer 🤫

If anyone has any recommendations for home labs and such I'm always open for them!

I've just joined this community to try and keep up to date with everything going on and see what else I can learn passively from being in here 🙂 Look forward to chatting with y'all.

patent carbon
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“Homelab” is a big dog whistle in this place. There’s several of us enthusiasts in here. Welcome aboard, glad to have ya!

tawny cedar
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Hi ; im a Senior systems engineerer and developer based in norway in an mssp, we have several (variations) of netapp deployments in our infrastructure. great product, here to pick up extra tips & tricks.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, @tawny cedar! 🤘

tawny cedar
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Thanks 🙂

thorn viper
flint burrow
thorn viper
rare spindle
kindred tusk
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aloha, Soeren Daehnrich from Germany. Working with Netapp since 20 years (i feel old now) been a long time consultant in a partner company (teamix / proact) since almost 3 years now freelance for different customer/partner.

thorn viper
kindred tusk
mortal spruce
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Hey everyone! My name is Chance and I am from Virginia. I am a 21-year-old IT professional that has about two years of experience in networking and systems. I have two associate degrees and I am currently working towards my bachelor’s degree. I am very early in my career and am mostly looking to connect with other tech professionals. Additionally, I am interested in connecting with individuals that have had experience or are associated with NetApp’s S3 Academy and Emerging Talent program. I’m looking to take the next step in my career and hopefully work for a future-focused and growth oriented company like NetApp and provide my skills and talent. Looking forward to talking and learning from you guys. Please don’t be hesitant to reach out to me and chat if you would like to. Also, if you live around the Raleigh or RTP area, definitely reach out to me. 👍

flat spruce
mortal spruce
patent carbon
flat spruce
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This is true...but I know I'd confuse it otherwise. 😄

kindred tusk
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the big N beside your names is hardly visible :p

fathom vault
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Hi! I'm not new to IT but I'm new to NetApp. I work at a biotech company, and it's being used to store some of our scientists' data.

patent carbon
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Glad you found us! Welcome aboard!

tired minnow
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Hi, been in IT (especially cloud technologies) for three years so far, but very new to Netapp.

patent carbon
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Welcome! You're in the right place to do that!

hoary echo
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Hi, Fabrice from NetApp France. I am SE here since 5 years now

kindred tusk
hoary echo
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would be interesting to know who is the second one 😂

kindred tusk
hoary echo
kindred tusk
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ya 🙂 but it's kinda just a joke. I love france 🙂 and been there quite often and met more people who speak it.

fickle jungle
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@edgy arch also speaks English 😉

hoary echo
edgy arch
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I try.

kindred tusk
# edgy arch I try.

probably much better than me with my few words french i learn every vacation new cause i simply forget everything except few words. 😄

hoary echo
edgy arch
fickle jungle
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Et aussi à Australie, nous avons une équipe francophone, pour raison secret 😛

edgy arch
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Like they purchased our submarines eventually ? 😄

fickle jungle
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😬

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As a dual Australian/Canadian, let me say sorry

sweet rampart
patent carbon
#

I LOOKED AT THE TRAP, RAY!

solar forge
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Hi everyone, returning to this server after.. a year? I've just returned to a role as a storage engineer. Public university in the US, whole lotta new NetApp.

bitter fossil
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Welcome back! Looks like you've been with us since 2/28/2022 partyparrot

solar forge
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Yep. I've just kept the server muted because my dayjob had me doing not-NetApp things. :)

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And my FAS2220 at home doesn't really count.

thorn viper
solar forge
fallen bloom
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Dear EveryOne.
I am glad to be here.

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I feel exiting
I wanna learn more about NetApp.
II m blockchain and web developer, but not familar with this channel.
I would appreciate if all you guy teach me as possible.
And I would like to help you in development in other ways.
I m from Japan.

copper chasm
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Glad to have joined and looking forward to learning about what NetApp can do. I am an Infrastructure Engineer from the United States.

covert valve
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Hi! im 7mode)

kindred tusk
covert valve
tough root
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Hello
I'm from Brazil, working as a busineess partner with NetApp products

orchid dirge
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Hi - I'm part of our M&A team. I'll have been with NetApp 18 years as of April.

bitter ember
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Hey y'all! I'm in Wilmington, NC, been w/NetApp since 2013. I'm a Solutions Architect (SA) that focuses on ASA, MS SQL, and VMware on NetAPp and ONTAP. I am both NCDA and NCIE+SAN certified, and just renewed both in 2024. Nice to meet you all!

bitter fossil
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We need a Venus Fly Trap emoji for Wilmington 🪴

fading marsh
fickle jungle
bitter ember
subtle swan
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Hello, my name is Rahul, and I'm a Systems Engineer working in the US. I've just started using NetApp, and I'm looking forward to learning from all of you. Any tips, resources, or advice you can share would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks a lot..

drifting maple
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Hello, my name is Salim, and I'm a Senior Engineer working in the Partner Company. I've just started using NetApp, and I'm looking forward to learning from all of you. Any tips, resources, or advice you can share would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks a lot..

cyan kraken
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Hello, my Name is Kobus, I am a support Engineer, working for a partner in South Africa.

surreal siren
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Hi, My Name is Srihari, I am working as a Netapp Storage admin for a partner in Bangalore, I am very excited to be part of this Community and looking forward to learning, sharing, and Growing. Thank you 🙂

sand cipher
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Hello, Mitchell Simpson in Wichita. I work in the Storage Media and Engineering group on the Tools Team

patent carbon
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Welcome Mitchell! What tools should people reach out to you with questions about?

minor latch
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heyyyooooo

lilac verge
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Hi, My Name is Elumalai, I am working as a Senior Technical Engineer - Technology Sales for a Partner in Chennai. I am so happy to join the Community. Looking forward for learning . Thanks

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Elumalai!

cyan arch
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Hello everyone!

Sebastian here, from România, working with storage for more than a decade. Looking forward to exchange ideas with the group.

Cheers

carmine elk
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Hey everyone

thorny harbor
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Hi All, Iam Nikheel from NetApp. Working as Performance Engineer. Thankyou

visual furnace
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Hi Everyone

keen inlet
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Hi Everyone, Michael here. Have been administrating Netapp clusters since 2014

eternal mirage
#

hello

quaint mantle
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Hello everyone! I have just joined my second company as an IT Support specialist who resells NetApp products. Most of the time, when we receive an ASUP alert indicating a failed disk or other hardware issues, we process the RMA and coordinate with the client for replacement assistance. If it's not an RMA case, for example, if a customer reports that their NetApp application is down and not serving data, I open a NetApp case and facilitate meetings for live troubleshooting with the client and NetApp support.

Now, I am curious about everything related to NetApp and would like to explore it further. Can you help me point in the right direction on where to start to become a NetApp guru someday? Do you have any certification recommendations? If yes, which particular certification should I pursue? I found an article suggesting that I should start with NSO-093, but it seems to have been retired already. Are there any practice labs available where I can experiment with NetApp devices and explore their features?

To be honest, I am feeling confused and overwhelmed with the abundance of information available online. Can you suggest a roadmap or a step-by-step guide that I can follow?

Thank you in advance for any insights, recommendations, or clarifications that you can provide.

You guys rock

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, DM! Start with the NCDA certification. It’s the ONTAP foundational fundamentals and you can branch off from there into any specialties.

fading marsh
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after that I would go for the NCIE-SAN and NCIE-DP.

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the NS0-093 is the Support Engineer exam which is targeted at Support staff, generally Tier 1 and first party call servies through partners.

sinful igloo
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yeah, just my opinion, but I think, a NCIE-level ONTAP certification is missing...

fading marsh
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can you clarify?

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not hard enough?

wicked violet
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try NAHSE awkwardseal

wheat marlin
#

hello! aracely here!

sinful igloo
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@fading marsh Basic Ontap functionality but deeper, yes... Maybe something like an advanced ncsie certification

honest dragon
#

Hi everyone
I was under the impression there ought to be NABox support available on this server. Am I wrong?

wicked violet
honest dragon
bitter fossil
atomic marsh
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Hello everyone 😉 i'm new here, would like to start looking for knowing ontap better. Glad to found this place.

digital patio
#

Hi everyone!

honest jacinth
#

Hi all

bitter fossil
#

Welcome to our newest members here 🙂

weak slate
#

Hello everyone

raw bluff
#

Hi everyone

obsidian mountain
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Hi guys,
Is anyone else having trouble syncing their accreds with Credly? When I click at the useful links, they are all just generic

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the handle these times of requests for NLS.

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Morning everyone

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Mike!

cedar hemlock
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Ho everyone

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Hii**

gritty briar
stark falcon
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Hi guys

hardy chasm
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Good Day

lusty hawk
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Hi everyone! I am starting my 2nd month at NetApp on the product marketing team. I am back after a 3 year break and looking forward to joining the community!

patent carbon
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PROOCH! Welcome back dude!

lusty hawk
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I was debating if I should leave my display name "spruch"😆
I am stoked to be back!

vague stirrup
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Hi everyone

warm maple
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Good afternoon Everyone!

ionic rapids
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Hello everyone 🙂

brisk snow
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Hi I am Olasunkanmi, 5 years experience with NetApp, installation, administration (NAS and SAN), NCDA, NCSIE and looking forward to taking NCIE.

Can I share my CV here .... Looking forward to new opportunities, remote works just fine as well

bitter fossil
valid marlin
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Hi, I am ND, new to the NetApp world, looking some technical help here if some can direct me in any direction.

fading marsh
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welcome!

patent carbon
carmine quail
nimble chasm
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Howdy.

patent carbon
solar wave
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Hi all, quick intro from my side. My name is Timo Wilschut, based out of the Netherlands. I'm working as an Account Technology Specialist in the Nordics.

carmine quail
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Welcome, Timo!

flat spruce
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Howdy.

dim yoke
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Hey

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grizzled escarp
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Howdy y'all. I'm Wyatt and I work for Velasea as the Support Manager. Happy to be here!

patent carbon
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Howdy Wyatt! Welcome!

hearty raptor
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¡Hi everyone! I am starting my fourth month at NetApp on the presales team. Excited!!! , is there any channel that has pre-sales information?

fading marsh
hot glen
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Hi all, came accross your YT channel.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Whisky!

bleak vine
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Hi all, my name is Leon. I'm working as System Engineer at a german agricultural machinery manufacturer. I'm also from Germany.

patent carbon
dim yoke
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Shubham from India Learning Netapp storage

echo reef
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hi everyone. My name is Vinicius Calori. I am Partner Technical Lead for LATAM

rotund lagoon
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Hi, figured I better join NetApp channel on Discord since I have been admin NetApp stuff for over 20 years. Currently tinkering with S3 on ONTAP since we does not have volume for a Storage Grid yet. Devs seems happy to test it out and even pull stuff out of Azure, and I want to avoid having to install minIO and admin that as well. cheers

bitter fossil
rotund lagoon
next musk
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Hey there, NetApp fam! 👋 I'm Dishank Patel. After starting in our support org, I've been covering the Azure CSA Pod focused on all things NetApp on Azure for the last few years.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Dishank!

vague pasture
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Hello Peers Kevin Here, 👍

wet cipher
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hiii

knotty reef
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Hi - I'm a newbie, and a pro at being one!

nocturne vigil
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Hello! I'm a professional engineer with over 30 years of experience in various IT Functions and am currently running an IT Department for a robotics company.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard!

woeful sand
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Hello NetApp community!

My social profiles say, I'm "... a father, blogger, OSS committer, source control nerd, Java certified web technologist/developer/architect ☕ , analog wargamer 🪖 , home brewer 🍺 , and lifelong RPG gamer 🤓 ."

I've had two career epochs. For ten years I worked in Film 🎞️ /TV 📺 /Print 📰 as Location Manager and Producer (yes... I have an IMDB entry). I returned to school for my Masters degree in Computer Science in 2000. Today, the last 23 years has been working with web technologies in Consumer Credit customer acquisition and account servicing and Excess and Surplus insurance, i.e., "hard to insure" markets like Ax Throwing, Cannabis growing, and manufactured homes, where I'm the Senior Solutions Architect. My area of expertise is in Java web architecture and build tools, read: Maven.

🔗 Links:
GitLab https://gitlab.com/timothystone
GitHub https://github.com/timothystone
LinkedIn https://linkedin.com/in/javafueled
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832205

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@carmine quail threatened to out me, so I guess it's my turn on the soapbox.

I've been with NetApp coming up on 23 years. I worked on the launch of our Fibre Channel SAN products and later the addition of iSCSI. Most of my contributions were whitepapers though I did have heavy involvement in the release of the iSCSI initiatior for Novell NetWare. Now I lead a team of 40+ people wordwide that help our technical staff sell and support NetApp products. My group includes the Lab on Demand for employees, partners, and customers and the Customer Proof of Concept labs.

Outside of work, I'm a big fan of LEGO and similar building systems. I run my own home datacenter where I like to play with databases, dashboards like Smashing and Grafana, and virtualization technologies.

If you are at INSIGHT this week, please visit the 3rd floor and drop in on the Hands-On Labs and do an achievement lab to earn a pin and a Credly badge.

https://github.com/halfordfan
https://linkedin.com/in/tobycreek

GitHub
halfordfan - Overview

halfordfan has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Toby is OG GOAT. 💯

sullen quest
# carmine quail Toby is OG GOAT. 💯

If I was the GOAT, I would have turned the Hands-On Labs into a pet adoption event at Dan's suggestion. I'm not sure how much space would be available on the airplane for those retrievers to go home with the attendees but it surely would have been memorable.

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hehe, that was mostly a joke, but I do love labs 🦮

finite ivy
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Hey everyone, I’ve been in IT for over 25 years. Started as a Linux admin and became a storage admin. Using AFF A400s right now. At Insight having a good time with hands on labs and trying to pick up a cert.

valid summit
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Hey everyone, Solution Architect for NetApp Instaclustr here. Reach out to me if you have any questions about your open source data solutions for data streaming, storing, analyze, orchestrate and search.

vagrant prawn
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Hello - I've been reluctant to join Discord because I didn't want yet another social media platform (YASMP), but after hearing Kurian's keynote and commitment, I decided what the heck! I'm a former NetApp customer and employee. I'm a current NetApp partner in the Northeast. #nas4life #ntap4life

fading marsh
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Welcome everyone!

timber goblet
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👋

keen path
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Hi all 👋🏻 William from Hong Kong here 🙋🏻‍♂️

flat spruce
flat spruce
flat spruce
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Did GK really say Discord? THat's awesome.

vagrant prawn
flat spruce
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Oh. Still cool.

carmine quail
flat spruce
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Was that your "what is an igroup" phase?

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Wow that's cool to see employees around a long time.

carmine quail
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Best practices around zoning switches mostly. I'd later teach a class on brocade switch configuration @ Foresight. 😂

sullen quest
carmine quail
sullen quest
orchid kiln
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So. Storage Engineer over here. I was at Insight 2024, and man was I impressed. I'm also a really big homelab enthusiast. @patent carbon saw my rack pics.

patent carbon
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Aaron! I was hoping you'd join us! @bitter fossil, Aaron and I had a good chat about Community Edition.

bitter fossil
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oldEyes Community Edition, you say? 😁

orchid kiln
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Oh yes. I would LOVE to see that.

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Especially since I see it as a lost potential. Yeah, we can run the ONTAP VM, but that can only do so much. Home testing covers so much more!!

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Yeah. I have a soapbox. But if you ever need testers… I’m always down for it. It’ll give me an excuse to actually hunt down EOL hardware for my rack.

hybrid crow
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👋🏽 fellow Discorders! This is Saurabh(Sam) from NYC. About time I joined Discord, but finally here! Glad to meet everyone!!

frank flame
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He everyone, Wayne here from NetApp. Logged back into Discord after a few years away and thought i would check out the NetApp community here!

fading marsh
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Hey Wayne!

patent carbon
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Mr Hardware Universe poster himself has arrived! Welcome back Wayne!

flat spruce
carmine quail
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Hey Wayne, welcome! Miss our weekly meetings. 🙂

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(Wayne also does (or did) Fusion stuff)

umbral schooner
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Hi everyone this is Shahid from Pakistan.

honest dove
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Hi Everyone, this is Richard Treadway from NetApp in San Jose. I am the marketing manager for BlueXP backup and recovery (formerly Cloud Backup) and Trident.

dark frost
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yay spam

bitter fossil
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Banned!
For the inevitable next time, please <@&855078901109227608> so we can take action sooner 😎

low wolf
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Hi les bros

sharp river
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Hi Guys... I´m Alex, former NetApp employee and since may Sales Rep at a NetApp Partner in Germany 🙂

sinful igloo
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Welcome @sharp river , where are you based?

sharp river
sinful igloo
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Ah, that's 450km away from me (Münster)... Hi😉

loud creek
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Hi All. I'm a developer writing an SnapCenter REST API client (also using SCCLI). Not an Oracle DBA or SC expert. Just looking for nuggets of wisdom all you experts have that might help get me through some of the rough patches I'm running into.

bitter fossil
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Hi Mack! Welcome!
There’s a #1063548056945037352 channel here as well as a variety of channels to check out in the Developer Hub category.

glossy cave
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Hi everyone, this is Luke, a storage presales engineer for NetApp from Hong Kong 🇭🇰

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Luke!

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If you're a NetApp employee, can you shoot a Teams msg to me for verification and we can get you marked as Staff

nocturne lantern
patent carbon
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Now I need to go watch NAKED GUN again.

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Thanks John.

glossy cave
wise kindle
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Hello I'm a Product Manager for ONTAP with a focus on ONTAP core features, upgrades, performance and disaggregation. I was previously in NetApp support.

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Tell me about your upgrade gripes :v

patent carbon
wicked violet
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Did I just hear disaggregation? 👀

patent carbon
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Somebody didn't watch the Day 2 keynote...

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^Start here at this timestamp

covert storm
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Been managing and implementing toasters since 1998, and VMware and NetApp were a marriage made in heaven! But 18 months ago we retired our last NetApp filers! 🥲 but we are back when a client decided to get a FAS2820! Yippee!

bitter fossil
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Welcome back!

covert dragon
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Hello! Wandered back in here after being away from the server for quite a while. Currently working out of the Netapp Wichita KS office. Been with the company as an engineer since 2008, working on various product lines such as E-Series, Ontap, and most recently Azure Netapp Files. Before that I was a contractor working at the same office for about five years.

patent carbon
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Welcome back John! Great to have ya! Message me on Teams for verification and we'll get you Staff'ed up!

slow charm
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Hi, I'm John Kolacz- been doing NetApp support since 2008. I recently started as a PS Field Consultant doing advanced install work for Ontap and StorageGrid.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard John!

solid rivet
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hi, im a tecnician that works with netapp for about 18 years...

twilit phoenix
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Hi
I am new to the netapp world

patent carbon
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Welcome! You're in the right place, and glad you found us!

twilit phoenix
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Thanks Nick!

slim copper
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Hi everyone, Rom, a NetApp boomerang 😉

patent carbon
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Welcome back Rom, and to the Boomerang club! Glad to have you here!

covert dragon
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Oh hey Nick, I sent you a message on teams the other day like you asked.

bitter fossil
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Hey Rom!

tidal peak
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Hello All,
I am Abe, the customer success manager for all NetApp products on Azure!
Excited to be part of this community!

dark frost
solemn igloo
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hi all. i've been working with netapp products since '07. it is my preferred storage vendor. 🤘

rancid jasper
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Hi Guys..my name is Karthik.., working for NetApp under managed services tower.
I always wanted to connect here, Finally did it..looking ahead on this new journey ..so much to learn and get excited here and my focus to get all the creative ideas from this chats.

high sable
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Hello, Tzach a former sysadmin turned Quality Engineer, working for Red Hat, currently poking around Openshift storage these days.

grave urchin
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Hello all! Totally brand new to NetApp and excited to learn. Implementing a C250 with my team over the next couple weeks.

patent carbon
fallow thicket
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Hello wonderful discord people. Totally new to Netapp. Adding an e series for Veeam backups

patent carbon
tropic jacinth
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Hello! I'm not officially supporting NetApp currently where I work, but I will be cross-trained soon. Had lunch with some of our NetApp guys today and they mentioned the Discord

bitter fossil
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Well welcome!

warm carbon
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Hello. I'm a long time NetApp admin starting with 7mode and metrocluster FC in 2010. We have most of the different NetApp systems in production ranging from e-series to storagegrid. (E5760,A800,C800, SG6060...)

remote drum
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Former EMC PS dude. I have been supporting NetApp at a large university for about five years now.

wise sparrow
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Hello. I've been learning for a couple of months now to help my workmate (ontap and storage grid stuff). I've been a linux sysadmin for 25+ years.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard and Happy New Year! 🎉

onyx epoch
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Hello. Fabrice. SSE at NetApp France for 10 years

patent carbon
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Hi Fabrice! Welcome! Send myself or @bitter fossil a message on Teams to verify so we can mark you as Staff!

delicate copper
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Hello! I'm Claudia, just joined NetApp through the Graduate program

lunar valve
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Hello, I' m Marco, working since 2012 as Sr Presales Consultant in ICOS, the first italian NetApp Distributor (since 2007). My job is mainly to evangelize our NetApp Partners and support them to be successful in selling NetApp!

elder radish
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Bonjourno @lunar valve Dove risiedi?

frank sky
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Hello, I'm Dawid, 25yo rn. Just passed my first cert NS0-004 - Technology Solutions Exam (85% 😁 ). I work as a service engineer (3.5 year), I'm NetApp partner. Basically, I’ve worked with almost every NetApp product, whether it’s new or old.

winter latch
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hello, i'm torsten. i am an enduser with more then 15 years expirience

graceful harbor
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Hello, I'm new to discord - but not new to NetApp. I work as a Service Delivery Manager with very little technical understanding, which I would like to improve here if possible 😅

narrow blaze
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Francesco Aeri from Italy . Working in NetApp as pre-sales

patent carbon
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Benvenuto Francesco!

glossy scaffold
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Hi everyone!
I'm a developer from Japan 🇯🇵, focusing on NetApp-related development. I have interest in integrating and automating NetApp solutions using APIs and cloud technologies. Looking forward to learning from the community and sharing insights as I deepen my expertise in NetApp development.
Excited to connect with you all!

wicked violet
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Hey welcome! I will visit Japan for a month in April, very excited! 😊

bitter fossil
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I loved Japan when I visited in 2019

gritty spindle
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Hey everyone, Piyush here and I'm working as an SRE with NetApp.

dark frost
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greetings and welcome

wary vortex
past kettle
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Hi everyone! Semi-long time NetApp admin (started basic admin tasks in 7-mode) from Finland hailing! 👋
Now starting to get interested on how to do less work eg. how to automate everything, so I stumbled on this corner of the Internet 😄

tacit silo
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Hello all. Nice to be here. I am part of NetApp Managed Services team based in Australia. I have a focus on cybersecurity and network engineering. Looking forward to engaging conversations.

lunar valve
serene linden
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Hello everyone - I'm part of the NetApp engineering team focusing on Keystone. I'm based in Australia and looking forward to the F1 season kickoff this week!

patent carbon
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Yea! We have a #┊・sports channel and I’ll start us an F1 2025 channel. Binged thru DTS over the weekend and ready for the season!

sonic lagoon
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Hello everyone! I'm with a NetApp Partner in Germaný. I have started with NetApp when ONTAP 6 was up to date. Now I'm interested in REST topics and experience. I use REST because I started programming my own tools and prefer to have a platform with no dependencies- This means Powershell without cmdlets, "Invoke-RestMethod" 😉

bitter fossil
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Welcome, @sonic lagoon! Be sure to add the Developer channels in the id:customize options.

austere dragon
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Hi i'm a 25 year FC veteran, worked in the past with Netapp and EMC

candid oar
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Hi all! I've been around since ONTAP 9.0 in 2017 and administering NetApp systems for several customers/companies from a MSP perspective. For the last couple of years I've been working with and alongside EdwinR at Previder on several systems/environments of our own, including FAS/AFF/E-series and StorageGrid (E5760/A800/C800/SG6060 etc).

west cargo
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Hi everyone! I am a NetApp new hire. Thankful for this community and looking forward to learning from you all.

visual condor
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Hello! I have been with a netapp partner in Sweden since 14 years. Now I will be working with a dev-ops team focusing mainly on ontap.

patent carbon
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Welcome!

nocturne panther
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Hello! I'm alessice from Italy, I'm using NetApp for the IT infrastructure of my company (SaaS Provider). I started using NetApp from FAS 2020 🙂 I love NFS, ONTAP and Linux 😍

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I'm still using for backups 3 beautifull FAS 2554 started with ONTAP 8.3 and upgraded until 9.8. I am here to seek support from other colleagues and experts more than me.

patent carbon
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My first system was a FAS2050 as well, back in 2006, I believe! Welcome aboard! You found the right place! 😎

bitter fossil
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Nothing to see here

fading marsh
patent carbon
olive moat
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Hello ! I'm Matthieu, from France, NetApp semi-veteran (old enough to know what OnTAP GX is), now working at Free Pro / Jaguar Network. Happy to be here with y'all 🙂

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Matthieu!

open crater
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Hi , I am Rajesh, From Malaysia , familiar with Netapp OnTap NAS products

dark frost
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welcome

patent carbon
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Welcome Rajesh!

wheat arch
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hi everyone! I'm based out of Southern California and joining to get more involved in the NetApp community.

digital fable
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Hi Everyone, From central Virginia here in the US. Recently taking over 2 instances of OnTap from a retired netadmin and feeling a bit over my head. I would welcome pointers and guidance.

dark frost
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Greetings and welcome.
Here is a list of courses/etc that I generally give to our new guys that haven't done much with NetApp before.
Goes over a ton of info to get you going

📎 netapp_courses.txt
bitter fossil
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That's a solid list. Thanks for sharing!

dark frost
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anytime, always glad to help when i can.
If I missed any, feel free to let me know so I can add them

versed flint
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Hello Everybody! My name is Mateo and I'm a finance student currently studying NetApp and I'm looking to gain as much knowledge about the industry and its products as possible! If anybody wants to chat about data storage and how the company works I'd be super grateful. Or if you recommend any resources to get a crash course on netapp and what makes it so great, I'd be super interested. Looking forward to getting to know you all

dark frost
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if you have chat history for here you can go up a couple of messages from me and there is a link with a lot of free online courses for netapp.
If not I can post it again

versed flint
patent carbon
fallow tendon
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Hello! I'm a software engineer with a legal background. I am interested in upskilling with NetApp training courses!

wooden lake
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Hi my name is Sebastian, I work for a NetApp partner in Germany.

bitter fossil
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Hey Sebastian! Welcome

abstract mirage
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Hi, I am Zaw Win Min, From Myanmar, we are using NetApp AFF A700 and FAS 8300 in my company.

patent carbon
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Welcome Zaw! 🙌

pale pawn
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Hi I'm spam hater, i just found your channel through your gen 8 proliant reset video .. it has answered a few question and made me ask a lot more... i used to be in tech, so can following instructions lol

i purchased a hp proliant micro server off ebay, with the idea of using it as DAS at first , with the ability to learn and get more confident with nas etc. It used as a home lab concept.

But feels like after following hp's docs and setup I am no where close to get it running.

so first question., have i invested badly lol !

it's an old 2015 bios .. but xeon core model. 16gb ram .. model, from what i see i could do with a raid controller to run full sata drives at 6mb , and was going to mirror two pairs of drives. was going to install debian and add something like casaos ... but now seems debian mediavault could be a good call ..

i have downloaded the 8.1 so pack in many different versions .. and been trying to get somewhere ...if someone has a bit of chat or leave a reply and would like to pick someone(s) brain to get me headed in the right direction .., even if it might be ., put it in a bin .., more win than linux but can just about hold my own ... any help would be appreciated 😁

bitter fossil
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We've got a #┊・homelabs channel if you want to chat through this over there, @pale pawn

pale pawn
dusky pagoda
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Hi, I am Michael from Germany. I am Working in a NetApp Partner company. I Work with all kind of AFF, FAS and ASA Systems. I also have done serveral MetroCluster Setups. Currently I working on NetApp automation (Ansible and my own scripts).

maiden talon
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Hi i am Rolf Boesiger from Switzerland and work for the Government Kanton Zurich. We have MetroCluster AFF400 and new A1K and some AFF200s in place. Currently also working on NetApp Automation with Ansible

patent carbon
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Welcome gents! Glad to have you with us! 🙌

oblique summit
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Hi,
I am Dominik, working for a NetApp customer. Admin of around 50 NetApp Clusters, growing to 150 by the end of the year.

rancid mortar
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hi, i'm sahil. newbie to netapp storage. trying to learn and get a head start before we get some new toys to play with

fierce pier
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Hi, I’m Hunter brand new to Netapp. I received a free AFF 200 and just started the journey learning it.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard! Those A200’s and FAS2600’s were solid starter units in their day and age (-2017). Great one to learn on. I believe it supports up to ONTAP v9.11 (current is 9.16)

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I have one myself and love it. 12Gb SAS, 6Gb SATA, and can even run some SAS SSDs

oblique summit
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Where would one aquire a free AFF system? Asking for a friend 😄

patent carbon
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Probably got decommissioned/refreshed.

teal sandal
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Hi I am Stacey Im trying to learn more about NetApp and its products

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard, Stacey! Have any initial questions/curiosities we can help with?

fervent inlet
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Hi I'm Alex! I'm starting a career in IT and just learning!

umbral fable
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Hi, Safeer here from Dubai.. working on Netapp across the globe. Also currently automating the deployments using ansible playbooks

patent carbon
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Welcome Safeer! 👏

gleaming cedar
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Hi all, Greetings from Abhishek...!! Working as NetApp Storage Admin and wanted to explore all products and new features of NetApp

rancid mauve
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Hello I have been with NetApp tech support for last 10 years, now moved to professional services based in UAE and I think i would get a lot info from the community that helps me in my new role

oblique panther
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Hello everyone

snow cove
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Hello everyone,
I'm Florian from Germany. Since my IT training (started in 2021) I have been dealing with NetApp on a daily basis and since mid-2023 I have been allowed to administer our 3 cDOT clusters (2 primary and 1 DR system) in a large hospital. In addition to the cDOT clusters, we also have a Metrocluster FC and IP (the IP will replace the FC in the future), an E-Series as a cache system for a tape library and a storage grid is to be added this year.

dark frost
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hello and greetings
I used to work with a Florian way back at IBM/Kenexa/Outstart

dire sand
fickle owl
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Hi everyone, my name is Matthias from Germany and I'm working with NetApp since 2014, starting in a metro cluster environment, and currentyl admistrating 3 2-node clusters in separate networks

bitter fossil
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Hey Matthias! Welcome!

hoary echo
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Hello

slender mist
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HI everyone, I am Nakpane from Togoand I would like to learn about NetApp

torn charm
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Hi everyone, here to learn more about NetApp

acoustic trellis
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Hi all! I am here to learn about NetApp Ontap and hopefully get some in depth knowledge. I currently manage 4 clusters of AFF-A250.

fading marsh
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Welcome all!

viscid pier
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Hello all! I'm a Senior Solution Architect in the Southwest US, recently learning a lot more about Netapp and their products. I just attended a NetApp EBC today, learned a ton about NetApp products. My organization has several large clusters comprised of FAS, AFF, and StorageGRID products. Here to learn more about NetApp!

patent carbon
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YouTube > https://youtube.com/netapp

YouTube
NetApp

Build an intelligent data infrastructure with NetApp that brings it all together — a smarter way to let data thrive. Any application, any data, anywhere.

brittle belfry
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Hello, here to learn more about NetApp

dark frost
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Greetings, welcome to the world of NetApp.

whole turret
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Hello, here to learn/get updates on products + I'm building an App that automates sizing and management of GCNV and Azure NetApp Files

ocean pike
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Hi All,
I recently joined the DART team as fresher in NB.
Want to quickly ram up SNAPMIRROR, SAN things to get involved in upcoming projects.
Any help is greatly appreciated 🙏😊👍🙏.

Looking forward to having a great learning curve here in NetApp.

Can anyone help me with the overview of SNAPMIRROR concepts such that I can run multinode test case on my own.

wicked violet
next plover
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Hi,
It's been 25 years since I halted my first Filer (F760 running ONTAP 5.x).
Over the years I have done trad to flex, 32 to 64, 7 to C with a diversion to GX along the way.
Thought it was about time I checked out what the cool kids we're doing on Discord.
Better late than never 😏

tepid maple
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Hi netapp lovers, my name is Chris and a netapp customer in Belgium. Currently managing multiple clusters with aff A series, C series and FAS series nodes. Glad to join you. 🤝

fading marsh
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Welcome !

fickle jungle
hybrid steppe
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Hi community. I was a NetApp customer for 6 years and loved the technology and NetApp culture. I've been at NetApp for 5 years as a Solution Engineer. It was time to check out what's happening on Discord!

bitter fossil
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Hi @hybrid steppe. Message me on Teams and I'll get you set up with the staff role 🙂

twilit robin
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Hello world!

patent carbon
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ACK

patent carbon
finite ivy
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Hello everyone!

patent carbon
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Welcome @finite ivy!

hasty saddle
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Hello

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I am Lolo, PS Cybersecurity Intern at Netapp

fickle jungle
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I’d like to welcome back @fading marsh, now from our great partner, Ahead

fading marsh
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Thanks buddy 🙂

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Hey ya'll. Mike here,

I'm (now) a Sr. Specialist Solutions Engineer at Ahead. Still working on NetApp things as well as a bunch of other stuff.

alpine pulsar
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Hello everyone! I'm Nicole and I'm a new Professional Services Consultant based in Italy

severe halo
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Hi All, I´m Kristiane Araujo - Vortex TI Sales Specialist ! I´m new in this workspace.

dark frost
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I always feel bad about @ people, but I'll note it for future spam, thanks

bitter fossil
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Don’t feel bad. It’s all in a day’s work for me/us.

dark frost
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ok, thanks for confirming that. I try not to use it unless given the OK or it's an emergency. I know it can get annoying being blasted with it

bitter fossil
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I appreciate the discretion, but seriously, don’t think twice about it here 😎

fading marsh
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Richard was probably agentic

dark frost
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@bitter fossil
yet another spammer

patent carbon
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hi

tiny sequoia
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Hi

median trench
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Hi Team

bold garnet
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Hello All ! I'm tring to build some ansible playbook to help in clone creation ( without success so far 🙁 )

patent carbon
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Hey all!! Partner Sales Manager here in Brisbane Australia, newly joined NetApp two weeks ago! thanks for having me.

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Aaron!

humble turtle
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Heya, I'm Jussi from Finland. I've been working with cDOT (and few other NetApp things) since early 2012. Currently working with few AFF clusters, StorageGRID and taking a deep dive in automating things with Ansible.

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I'm Francesco Aeri ex NetApp Employee and now I'm a SE Channel for Italy and Spain in Commvault .

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Hey everyone,
I’m a senior AI engineer and cross-platform app developer. Most of my work is focused on building production systems, not demos or experiments. On the AI side, I’ve built and shipped LLM-powered features using RAG pipelines (embeddings, vector search, chunking, re-ranking), agent-style workflows, and tool calling. I’ve fine-tuned and deployed models for NLP and computer vision tasks, handled inference optimization, and managed prompt/version changes in live environments.
I regularly design backends that support AI workloads, including async APIs, background jobs, streaming responses, and queue-based processing. I’m used to dealing with real production concerns like latency, cost control, reliability, monitoring, rate limiting, and secure access. For apps, I’ve built and maintained iOS, Android, and web applications with shared logic and clean architecture. I’m comfortable owning the full stack end-to-end, from frontend UX to backend services, deployment, and long-term maintenance.

Skills :

⦁ AI & Machine Learning: ML, DL, NLP, Computer Vision (PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, OpenAI API)
⦁ App Development: iOS & Android (Flutter, React Native), Web Apps (React, Next.js, Vue.js)
⦁ Backend & APIs: Node.js, NestJS, Express, FastAPI, Python, Go
⦁ Automation & Agents: AI agents, workflow automation, RAG systems, chatbots
⦁ Cloud & DevOps: Firebase, AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Supabase

DM anytime for collaboration on AI projects, mobile apps, or full-stack app development.
— Senior AI and App Developer —

dark frost
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wrong channel for that

fading marsh
bitter fossil
abstract shoal
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I'm Guillermo Stuyck NetApp Employee in PS Iberia

bitter fossil
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These types of posts should be made in #┊・self-promo
I deleted your post here the other day, and a few minutes ago in #┊・just-chatting after asking you to post in the appropriate channel.
I'd also ask you to tie your skills to NetApp in some way.

fading marsh
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looks like AI generated tech buzz word vomit

bitter fossil
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Booted 👢

fading marsh
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Hi, I'm Kris from the DII customer success team based in RTP

bitter fossil
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Hey Kris. Come find me sometime in RTP

opal gust
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Hi, I'm Adarsh, an intern on the CSO team in SJC!

bitter fossil
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Hey Adarsh!

tacit narwhal
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Hi I am Laith, new joined VAD Distributor as NetApp Presales Engineer

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Hello Team. I'm Jan and happy joining the channel.

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Hi, I'm Gerold. Working for a Netapp Partner in Austria. I am excited to join again after being away from this community for a while.
Quite a lot to discover since last time, well done @patent carbon 🥳

At the moment I am researching for all things Ontap with Proxmox. Have to dig into the Virtualization topic. The community posts in Proxmox Forum led me back here.
Another topic I am currently dive in is Netapp Console B&R feature. Product managment did a pretty good job with license scoping, but from my testing I think the featureset for snapshot based recovery needs some more love 🙂

Happy to be back and shot me a message if you want to discuss or want to talk about stuff.

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Hi everyone! I'm Dave, a Sr Product Solutions Architect from the Cloud Volumes ONTAP Product team

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Dave!

steel sapphire
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Thanks Nick!

vernal condor
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hello...i'm new around here...i work here @ netapp in IT as a platform engineer...

patent carbon
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Hi everyone! I’m Arti from India, a NetApp Partner and Specialist, excited to learn and explore AI and automation with NetApp.

plush lark
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👋

cold glen
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Hello everyone, I am Gokhan from Turkiye, i'm excited to join this community INSIGHT2023

patent carbon
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Welcome aboard Gokhan!

sharp atlas
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Hello everyone, I’m Thomaz Blummer, a new LATAM partner. I’m very excited about the opportunity to contribute and learn from the global NetApp community. Thank you all.

glossy nexus
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Hi NetApp Discord - I'm Jason and I'm a NetApp sales rep in SLC, UT

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Hi Everyone
Bhagyashree here
excited to join the community and to collobarate

quick prism
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Hello!

little plover
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hello!!

chilly ibex
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Hey! My name is Israel. Here from Cyera, working on the FPolicy intergration 🙂