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I have been a subscriber to this list for over 10 years.  I appreciate the open dialog that we share.  In that spirit I wanted to respond to the discussion on this particular thread.  I reached out to our product team to get a clarification message on what the plans and intent are.  This is what they said:

Thank you for taking interest in our automation and integration tool.
 
API Services designed to provide RESTful APIs for NetApp platforms. Latest version of API Services provides RESTful APIs for ONTAP. It exposes platform options for applications needing granular controls.  
 
NetApp Service Level Manager (NSLM) is introduced to further simplify building solutions around NetApp platforms through SLO APIs which allows applications to focus on storage services and relieving them of platform specific nuances. 
The simplicity is built through service standardization, rapid service activation, and monitoring and regulation. From user experience point of view – 1) user downloads the product, 2) points to clusters to manage, and 3) initiates provisioning activity. 
SLM is shipped with pre-defined service levels. It has in built logic to provision volume/LUN on the right set of resources based on space and IOPS availability, regulate IOPS on ONTAP platform through QoS Policies, and  monitor workload for service level compliance. All without human intervention.
In order to offer complete set of RESTful APIs, Service Level Manager (SLM) produce is shipped with both SLO and platform RESTful APIs. This provides the flexibility for developers to choose level control required for their solutions.
 
API Service product with focus on bring RESTful APIs for NetApp platforms in a faster cadence will continue to be offered along with NetApp Service Level Manager. Customers will have the option of picking either of the two based on needs of their solution.
 
WFA is NetApp’s storage automation tool that enable customers to build workflows that stiches several atomic actions. Currently, WFA uses ZAPIs as command sets. Internally, there are discussions to enable WFA to leverage RESTful APIs, both platform and SLO variant to drive simplicity across the stack.
 
If you want more details, please reach out to your NetApp SE and they can (under NDA) get you the detail you need.
Cheers

Dave Dye
Senior Systems Engineer

NetApp
604-421-3301 Direct
778-996-1884 Mobile
Dave.Dye@netapp.com
www.netapp.com

Support: 1 888 4NETAPP (1 888 463 8277)

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net <toasters-bounces@teaparty.net> on behalf of Michael Bergman <michael.bergman@ericsson.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 10:42:35 AM
To: Toasters
Subject: Re: WFA vs OnCommand API Services vs NMSDK vs ..
 
I just downloaded the Programmer's Guide for both SLM 1.0RC2 and API
Services 1.2 and compared them.

Indeed these two PG's appear to be pretty much identical, the ToC is (quite
clearly). Same no of pages, same page numbers etc -- it looks like the
string "API Services" was replaced with "Service Level Manager" everywhere.
Plus other significant changes and adjustments as well here and there, e.g.
pp 7-8.

Interesting.

/M

On 2017-02-24 19:03,I wrote:
> It doesn't express clearly anywhere that I have been able to find that API
> Service will be replaced completely by the new SLM (that may be the case?).
> It just says:
>
> * Platform-specific device APIs for storage management
> * SLO-based APIs for service level management of storage resources
> * Access to pre-defined Storage Service Lvls by using the web UI and APIs
> * Automatic mapping of SSLs to storage resources
> * Automatic provisioning as per the storage service level by using APIs
> * Monitoring and regulating based on used or allocated capacity
>
> So the point #1 may be what is in actual fact a replacement, or inclusion of
> the current API Services. I don't know, there's nothing anywhere that says
> this explicitly.
>
> Anyone knows any more details around the plans fort his?
> Will API Services be decommissioned in the future (far or near)?
>
> I'm a customer so the Field Portal doesn't really tell me anything
>
> /M

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