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At NetApp Insight 2026, NetApp said its AI Data Engine will discover metadata across ONTAP, StorageGRID and third-party storage over NFS, SMB and S3. What changed, what is only announced, and what hybrid multicloud admin
Azure NetApp Files previews cloud-issued Entra Kerberos tickets for SMB. The capability removes client DC line-of-sight but is not ONTAP Entra data access.
NetApp announced the general availability of "Flex Unified ONTAP-mode" — a new deployment mode that consolidates SAN (iSCSI/FC) and NAS (NFS/SMB) protocols on the same FlexVol volume while exposing a unified management p
You must be running ONTAP 9.12.1 or later to create a network interface for NFS over RDMA with System Manager. When you select NFS,SMB/CIFS,S3 , you have the option to Use RoCE ports . Select the checkbox for Use RoCE po
Learn about SMB configuration with the ONTAP CLI — official NetApp ONTAP 9 documentation page (smb-config). Covers ONTAP commands, configuration procedures, and feature explanations relevant to NCDA/NCIE-SAN/NAS exam pre
Hands-on config for exposing FSx for ONTAP file data through S3 Access Points so Bedrock/analysts' AI tooling can run against enterprise NAS datasets — bridging NFS/SMB admin territory to AI analytics consumers.
Covers the ONTAP 9 volume-level `maxdir-size` knob (`vol options maxdir-size ` and the modern `volume modify -vserver -volume -max-dir-size ` form). The setting controls the maximum directory size in the WAFL inode file;
AWS Storage Blog walk-through of attaching S3 Access Points to FSx for ONTAP file shares joined to AWS Managed Microsoft AD so that AI/ML services (Athena, SageMaker, EMR) can consume SMB/NFS file data through an S3-comp
CVE-2021-26989 — Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to Denial of Service (DoS) in SMB environments.
CVE-2016-3400, CVE-2016-3997, CVE-2016-3998, CVE-2016-2118 — Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could potentially lead to information disclosure, privilege escalation, or a Denial of Service. CVE Description CV
CVE-2019-5502 — Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could potentially lead to information disclosure or addition or modification of data.
CVE-2019-5491 — Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to the disclosure of 6 bytes of data from any previous network buffer usage to an unauthenticated user.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition.
CVE-2017-14583 — Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) for SMB authentication requests.
CVE-2017-5988 — Exploitation of this vulnerability will allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition to affected versions of clustered Data ONTAP if NFS or SMB protocols are enabled.
CVE-2016-5374 — ONTAP 9.0 and 9.1 do not prevent the owner of SMB hosted data from modifying the ACL when the owner_rights ACL entry is present, thus defeating any previously configured security configuration.
CVE-2018-5490 — This vulnerability allows write access to “read-only" CIFS data from authenticated SMBv2 and SMBv3 clients which could result in the deletion or manipulation of data that is intended to be "read-only".
CVE-2016-4341 — Exploitation of this vulnerability may disclose the existence of SMB shares and their permissions to an unauthenticated user.
CVE-2016-2119 — NetApp products are not affected by this vulnerability.
CVE-2015-0005 — SMB services disruption has been reported by some customers after installation of the patch on their Microsoft Domain Controllers.
Users say SMB logons, LDAP lookups, or name mapping suddenly hang or fail; EMS shows secd messages.
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ONTAP SMB/CIFS explained: creating shares, share ACLs vs NTFS ACLs, AD/Kerberos integration, SMB 3.x features, and the failures that actually happen — with real commands.
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Configure and verify NetApp ONTAP 9.x SMB over QUIC: certificate requirements, server enablement, firewall ports, Windows client connection, troubleshooting matrix, and security notes for untrusted-network file shares.
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Design and operate Oracle, SQL Server, and SAP HANA on ONTAP: NFS, SMB and SAN choices, volume layout, snapshots, clones, QoS and pitfalls.
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