Modernise your data platforms in the

DATA era with AWS and NetApp

Paul Haverfield
Principal Storage Specialist @ AWS

Li Yon Seow
AWS Cloud Specialist (ASEAN) @ NetApp

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 Each decade of IT has a core theme, and drives outcomes

1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

number crunching empowering connecting communicating augmenting
w/ mainframes w/ PC’s w/ the internet w/ smartphones w/ the cloud

Purposes: Purposes: Purposes: Purposes: Purposes:

batch, finance, word processing shop, publish, chat, locate, AI/ML, Dx/Biz Tx,
accounts, pay, spreadsheets, share, trade, navigate, just autonomous,
‘numbers’, databases matchup in time xx experimenting
Centralised Distributed Reach Always On DATA

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How do you maximise the value of data?
✔ Increase scale
2 Move to managed ✔ Improve performance
✔ Lower cost
✔ Agility
✔ Save time and cost ✔ Global distribution
✔ Remove undifferentiated heavy lifting ✔ Performance at scale

3 Modernize your
data repositories
1 Break free from legacy 010010010
01010001
data infrastructure Data
100010100
4 Build / Utilise
data-driven apps
✔ Better experiences
✔ Deeper engagement
✔ Efficient processes

✔ Better and faster insights

✔ Broader access to analytics
5 Turn data to insights

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What comes to mind when
thinking about AWS?

Amazon Elastic Compute Amazon Elastic Block Store

Cloud (Amazon EC2) (Amazon EBS)

Amazon Simple Storage Amazon Relational Database

Service (Amazon S3) Service (Amazon RDS)

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Anyone think of file system
services?

Amazon Elastic File System Amazon FSx

(Amazon EFS)

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Are file system services relevant in the cloud? Yes!

Storage & IT admins and Business Unit leaders Builders and data
app owners scientists

Feature
POSIX Application dependency
dependency
Transaction I know X, I want
Heavy Cost model X

High Read / Vendor support Tooling

Write rate dependency dependency

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File system services remain relevant in the cloud

Storage & IT admins and Business Unit leaders Builders and data
app owners scientists

Enterprise IT User Line-of-business SaaS

Machine learning
applications shares applications applications

Software build Backup and Web serving and content DevOps

Data science and analytics
environments disaster recovery management platforms

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Amazon file storage services
A COMPLETE SPECTRUM OF FILE SERVICES HELPING CUSTOMERS TO CREATE VALUE IN THE CLOUD

Build cloud-native apps Run NAS workloads Accelerate compute-heavy

across cloud resources in the cloud workloads

Amazon EFS Amazon FSx Amazon FSx Amazon FSx Amazon FSx Amazon File
for Windows for NetApp for OpenZFS for Lustre Cache
File Server ONTAP

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Amazon FSx is the easiest path to run file workloads in the cloud
NO TRADE OFFS, NOTHING TO SACRIFICE, NO APP MODIFICATIONS

Re-architect Re-invent
Migrate to like-for-like storage with the
same capabilities and APIs Re-certify Re-train

NetApp ONTAP Windows file server

Build and run SMB & NFS workloads leveraging the capabilities and
performance of popular file systems

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WE ARE HERE TO STAY

NetApp – AWS Partnership

Bringing the best of Both Worlds for Data Management

Li Yon Seow
AWS Cloud Specialist (ASEAN)
NetApp

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 A decade of Innovation with AWS
NetApp’s history of cloud innovation

2013 2015 2017 2019 2021

NetApp NPS SaaS AltaVault Backup Cloud Orchestrator Cloud Tiering Amazon FSx
to Amazon S3 SaaS Backup~O365 Cloud Backup for NetApp ONTAP
Cloud Data Sense

2012 2014 2016 2018 2020

Partnered with AWS Cloud Volumes ONTAP Cloud Sync to Amazon S3 Cloud Volumes Service Spot by NetApp
at re:Invent 1 StorageGRID to Amazon S3 NetApp Kubernetes Service Global File Cache
Cloud Insights Virtual Desktop Service

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 Our Commitment to Cloud & What Customers are Saying

31% 45% 40%

Technology Cost Operational Migration Time
Avoided Efficiency Lift Reduction

“We’re able to store more “We can manage their “We didn’t have to
things in the same multiple file systems refactor, back up, restore,
amount of space.” – CTO using ONE management redeploy, set up a whole
Healthcare console” — IT Director, new storage farm, test it,
Energy Industry build it, do all the
• Provision new file performance testing, and
systems in minutes so on”– CTO Healthcare
• Streamline provisioning
• Optimise cost with & management
• Ease of training & use
tiering due to ONTAP familiarity
• Reduce Patching Efforts
• Reduced risk with multi-
• NetApp compression, AZ, DR & Backup
deduplication, ONTAP • Save on support of
• Reduce migration and
features physical hardware
operational risk

Forrester TEI report 2022, Luca Son, Sam Sexton, Uddhav, Bagrodia - https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/82221-total-economic-impact-of-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap-forrester-study.pdf
Why Change, Why Now, Why AWS

• Shift from a self-managed, to a Storage- as-

Scale Cloud Market
Gold-standard File
Leader a-Service model.
Management

• Streamline operations and ease of

Access to ONTAP Adopt Predictability & administration

systems & data familiarity
capabilities
• Improve disaster-recovery capabilities for
business-critical applications.

Full NetApp Cloud Synergize Access to AWS

portfolio range of services • Increase migration speed and accuracy

• Naturally fit with and merge with existing

tech stacks and integrations.
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 Migrate Anything, Manage Everything
Migrate any workload, applications, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers – even
Entire Data Centers

Cloud Native Workloads

Enterprise Workloads

Line of Data
Software Oracle, SQL, VM for storage Enterprise File-
Business Protection,
Development RDS, SAP scale Shares
Applications Security

Media Containerized Dev/Test High

Analytics ISV Storage
Workflows Applications Environments Performance

SaaS

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Get started on cloud with a data-led initiative
⮚ Secondary Copies
Value ⮚ Long term file archives
⮚ Warm data protection
⮚ File shares REINVENTION
⮚ Windows & SQL EOS LIFT OFF!
refresh
⮚ Experiment with data
sciences & ML
⮚ Experiment with tier-2
or 3 apps INNOVATION

FOUNDATION

MIGRATION
PROJECT

DISCOVERY
Time
CUSTOMER CLOUD CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (COE)

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3 points to remember and guide your planning:
1 2 3

Amazon offers data value Amazon’s FSx family provides Start your data value creation
creation solutions not accessible like-for-like support for journey by migrating the
in an on-premise context. established workloads with ‘secondary data’ workloads to
minimal adoption effort Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP

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Thank you!
Paul Haverfield Li Yon Seow
[email protected] [email protected]

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Enterprise Workload with
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Diving into SAP and VMware

Lily Jang Varun Seth

Storage BD, APJ AWS Solutions Architect, APJ
AWS NetApp

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SAP on AWS with
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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 • Simplify your whole SAP landscape
transition into the cloud, public or
hybrid?

• Reduce delivery risk while

increasing project quality?

What if you could… • Get the same functions and

features you have grown used to
on-premises in the public cloud?

• ... and you could be more

profitable at the same time
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Why Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for SAP?

• Provides powerful data management capabilities using ONTAP

• Application integration directly into SAP around key functions

backup/cloning and AWS tools such as launch wizard for day 1-5
delivery tasks.

• Acceleration for system refreshes/training and project type

systems without the need for downtime

• Disaster Recovery (DR) without the need for 3rd party tools or
expensive application level replication. Simple to reverse, no
additional copies

• Simplicity with Scalability across a shared platform with better

performance and less waste and no need for multiple products
(EBS/EFS)
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Why Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for SAP?
• Shrink deployment time by as much as 40% and
accelerate SAP migration
• Reduce deployment and operational risk with
guaranteed storage service levels
• Make running S/4 HANA in the Cloud a reality with
millisecond latency, high IOPS and high throughput
storage
• Dramatically reduce complexity and management
overhead for shared files
• Accelerate protection and application
development/testing with NetApp SnapShot and
cloning technology
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Start fast, Start Now with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

• Bi-directional, high-speed data

management/replication between availability zones
or regions with SnapMirror

• Seamless expansion/migration of your existing on-

prem NetApp footprint into the Cloud

• Consume additional capacity/systems as required. Fully

integrated with AWS services such as Launch Wizard.

• SnapCenter enables near-instantaneous backups

regardless of the size of your SAP databases.
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Start fast, Start Now with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

• Administration & Automation

• Point-in-time, instantaneous cloning

• Low-latency access

• Multi Availability Zone & Single Availability Zones

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How do you make sure SAP data is protected?

Manage application-integrated Speed up testing and SAP system

backup and restore operations refreshes
SnapCenter Snapshots and FlexClone

Provide instantaneous data

Efficiently test disaster recovery
backups and restoration
Snapshots SnapMirror

Address/fix logical corruptions

faster with less impact
FlexClone

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* Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Features

Use Cases for Backup and Recovery Operations
Restore and recovery, DB
Accelerate HANA system upgrade
Backup Upgrade Testing
• if required start

operations
Planned downtime reduced by
• Fast on-demand backup before HANA Upgrade Testing
DB
start
8 hours
system upgrade
• Fast restore operation in case of an upgrade
failure hours 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

• Reduction of planned downtime

Reset system Reset system

• Accelerate test cycles

Evaluate results
• Fast creation of savepoints after a successful
step Golden
Template Savepoint 1 Savepoint 2
Finish testing

• Fast reset of system to any savepoint

• Repeat step until successful
Create Snapshot Create Snapshot Create Snapshot
copy copy copy

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SAP HANA Backup Options

File-based backup Storage-based Snapshot

or BACKINT backup
SAP HANA
Backup runtime Hours < 1min
1) Data
read write
Backup
CPU load at database
High No load
server during backup

Network load High No load

Restore Hours < 1min

SAP HANA Minutes – depending on

2) Recovery Hours
Snapshot frequency
Weekly file-based or
Executed during
FSx for Block integrity check execute hdbpersdiag on
Data backup
NetApp ONTAP existing Snapshots

Multiple backups per day

Backup schedule Once per day
ONTAP Snapshot (4-6 recommended)

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Example: Backup of a 1 TB SAP HANA System (2TB RAM)
Snapshot backup compared with AWS Backint for HANA

File-based backup: 20min Snapshot backup: 2 min

(~730 MB/s throughput)

Backup runtime reduced by 90%

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 Backup, Restore and Cloning of a 4TB Database (8TB RAM)
Backup 1 hours 40min
98% reduction 2 min

5 hours 20min
Restore and Recovery Restore Startup Recovery

70% reduction 1 hour 40 min *

Restore Startup Reco.

2 hours 50min
SAP System Refresh Restore Startup

65% reduction 1 hour 10min

(Recovery to a specific backup or Snapshot copy)
Storage
Startup
Clone
* with 4 NetApp® Snapshot backups per day
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File-based Snapshot-based
Use Cases for Cloning Operations
PRD QAS

SAP System Refresh

• Fast creation of a new volume based on a
production Snapshot backup Data Data
• Attach volume to the test system and recover
HANA database with System Identifier (SID)
change PRD PRD‘
Repair System creation to address logical
corruption
• Fast creation of a new volume based on a
production Snapshot backup Data Data
• Attach volume to the repair system and recover
HANA database w/o SID change
PRD PRD‘
Disaster Recovery testing
• Combined with SnapMirror Replication
• Attach storage clone from a replicated
production Snapshot backup to a DR test Data Data Data
system

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POC to Pilot to Production, you get faster time to value

Accelerate Migrate
Rapidly provision and test, reset and repeat Move to any compute & develop
your SAP business progresses with NetApp environment, in any combination, so no
data management tools in minutes, so you matter how requirements change or move
can fail fast—and succeed even faster. over time, you’re ready to go in any direction.

Simplify Continuity
Complete routine basis or application tasks Improve data retention and disaster recovery
with ease through simple easy to use user with simple and secure backup, archive, and
friendly tools allowing users to focus on replication from on-premises or across AWS
what's important, not the infrastructure Regions.

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Key Take Aways

SAP Desired Outcomes

• Implementing efficient system refreshes results in huge project time savings without
the need for weekend/out-of-hours work and additional costs/resources
• Enabling faster release cycles / Business Process enhancements and time to value
for SAP projects
• Scaling and provision of assets/systems that better match ever-changing
requirements without the need for system downtime. Cloud is expensive. £££
• Disaster recovery testing/training doesn’t require the facilitation of additional
copies/data sets or the breaking of mirrors putting customer SLAs at risk. Mins vs
Days

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VMware Cloud on AWS with
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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What is VMware Cloud on AWS?

SDDC stack on AWS

infrastructure
On-premises VMware Cloud on AWS
vSphere based Single pane of glass and API
environment across on premises and cloud

vCenter vCenter

Amazon EC2 Amazon S3 Amazon RDS Amazon Shield

vSphere vSAN NSX Amazon AWS Direct Amazon Amazon

Redshift Connect DynamoDB SageMaker
High throughput, low latency,
private access to AWS services

AWS Global Infrastructure

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Replacing Heavy Lifting with Managed Service

On-Premises
Data
Application
Operating System
Hypervisor In the Cloud Your
Team
Storage Data
Servers Application
SAN Operating System
Networking VMware Cloud on AWS
Power & Cooling
VMware
Facilities Operations
Real Estate

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Why VMware Cloud on AWS?

46% 50% 200+

Faster Cloud Migrations Less labour hours for Infra Ops Compatible AWS services
(6.8months → 3.6months)

• Source: IDC Business Value White Paper, The Business Value of VMware Cloud on AWS for Supporting Business-Critical Applications,, January 2021
• Source: Forrester TEI Report, Forrester Economic Total Economic Impact Study: VMware Cloud on AWS, December 2022
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Key Use Cases of VMware Cloud on AWS

Data Center Cloud Migrations Disaster Recovery Next-Generation

Extension Apps

Expand Consolidate Migrate Primary Secondary

Maintain

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VMware Cloud on AWS Storage options

Hyperconverged • VMware vSAN

Virtual
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
machines / External Datastore
workloads
• VMware Cloud Flex Storage

• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

• Amazon FSx for Windows
In-guest • Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
• Amazon EFS
• Amazon S3

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Attaching VMC datastores with Amazon FSx for NetApp
ONTAP
Customer Administrator Customer Administrator
VMware (AWS Cloud Admin)
(VMware Cloud Admin)

Mgmt. Datastore Workload Datastore Datastore1

(vSAN) (vSAN) (NFS)

vSphere vSAN NFS v3

Synchronous Mirror
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AWS Global Infrastructure

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Independent Scale of Compute and Storage

• 90% use shared storage for independent scale of compute &

storage

• 35% of workloads are ‘storage heavy’ (>250 GB/VM)

• Reduce VMC TCO up to 40% by scaling storage and compute

independently

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Cost-effectiveness Example

Intelligent Data Tiering Data Compression & Deduplication

SSD Capacity pool
storage storage

~2/3 savings ~2/3 savings

Multi AZ Single AZ
SSD $0.1050 $0.0525
Standard Capacity Pool $0.0167 $0.0083
Backup $0.0175 $0.0175

Note: per GB-month, with storage compression & deduplication enabled, Singapore region
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TCO Use Case: Data Center Evacuation
25% lower TCO
3-year savings = $1,145,805
Customer Environment
$6,000,000

21x i3en.metal 3y Sub • Midsize Enterprise

$5,000,000
• 5,000 employees
24x i3.metal 3y Sub
w/ FSxN • 351 VMs
$4,000,000
• 590 TB Storage

$3,000,000 FSxN
Benefits
SDDC

$2,000,000
• Reduced CAPEX costs via datacenter
consolidation
• Optimized IT efficiency through
$1,000,000
IaaS/PaaS simplicity
• Foundation for new cloud app
$0 development
VMC VMC & FSx
FSx for NetApp ONTAP assumes 65% efficiency savings, 2048 MB/s

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 TCO Use Case: Data Center Extension
25% lower TCO

3-year savings = $145,821 Customer Environment

$700,000
6x i3en.metal 3y Sub Data Center extension to support new
development
$600,000
4x i3.metal 3y Sub • 150 VMs
w/ FSxN
$500,000 • 45 TB Storage

$400,000
FSxN
$300,000 SDDC
Benefits

$200,000
• Datacenter extension to cloud for
test/development
$100,000 • Address hardware procurement
challenges- time, cost etc.
$0 • Accelerate database patching, &
VMC VMC & FSx
new feature rollout

FSx for NetApp ONTAP assumes 65% efficiency savings, 512 MB/s VMC on AWS + FSxN calculator
https://bluexp.netapp.com/vmc-aws-fsx-ontap/roi
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Key Take Aways

SAP on AWS with FSxN VMware Cloud on AWS with FSxN

Time and Cost Savings through Optimized 46% Faster Cloud Migration, 50% less Labour
Operational Overhead Hours for Infra Ops with VMC on AWS

Faster Release Cycles / Time-to-Value through

Independent Scaling of Compute and Storage
Business Process Enhancement

Agility to ever-changing requirements, without Storage Tiering, Data Deduplication, and

downtime Compression

Optimized Backup / DR with SnapMirror, SnapShot, FlexClone, and FlexCache

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Resources

• NetApp landing page – Why SAP HANA on AWS?

• AWS documentation – SAP HANA on AWS with FSxN
• Video: How to scale, clone, and customize SAP deployments with AWS
Launch Wizard
• NetApp landing page – VMC on AWS powered by NetApp
• AWS blogpost – FSxN integration with VMC on AWS
• Reference Architecture – connecting FSxN to VMC on AWS
• FSxN pricing calculator
• VMC + FSxN TCO calculator

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Thank you!
Lily Jang Varun Seth
[email protected] [email protected]

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How to improve database agility with
Amazon FSx

Rita Ladda
Sr. Microsoft Specialist Solution Architect
AWS

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Agenda

• Data growth
• Amazon RDS/self-managed
• Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP for databases
• Enterprise features
• Improve agility
• Summary
• Resources

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 Data growth

• 175 ZB by 2025
1. RPO/RTO
2. Backup windows
3. Access for development
4. Testing/patching
5. Analytics access
6. Cost/copy data management

https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/our-story/trends/files/idc-seagate-dataage-whitepaper.pdf

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Amazon RDS/self-managed
WHY DO SOME CUSTOMERS SELF-MANAGE?

Self Manage Managed

Managed
Amazon EC2 Amazon RDS
Amazon RDS
Custom

“Lift and shift” Managed service Fully managed

OS and DB admin access experience
No admin/sysadmin
Linux support SQL 2019 access

Service Limit Storage 16TB Storage 16TB Storage

BYOL/License Included OS and DB admin access Business innovation

(LI) focused
License Included (LI)
License Included (LI)
And BYOM

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Amazon RDS/self-managed
WHY DO SOME CUSTOMERS SELF-MANAGE?

Region
• License implications
Availability Zone Availability Zone Availability Zone

• Database size and number VPC

Private subnet Private subnet Private subnet
• Feature gap Log shipping,
Replication,
• Lift and shift Witness SQL server always on SQL server
primary database Async standby database

• Specific database version

Amazon EBS volumes Amazon EBS volumes
• Need full control over the database

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Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP for SQL
WHY AMAZON FSx?

▪ Instance-level protection versus database-level

protection
▪ License cost efficiency: you need the Enterprise
Edition license of SQL Server to run Always On
Availability Group, whereas you only need the
Standard Edition license to run SQL Server Failover
Clustering

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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
THE ONLY COMPLETE, FULLY MANAGED NETAPP FILE SYSTEM IN THE CLOUD

Delivers the easiest path to migrate or extend

existing NetApp deployments to the cloud

Leverages ONTAP’s data management

capabilities and multi-protocol support
Amazon FSx
for NetApp
ONTAP Optimize data efficiently with ONTAP
snapshots, cloning, and built-in data
compression and deduplication and
optimize costs with automatic tiering
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Running SQL with HA and DR
• Microsoft SQL Server provides two deployment options of its Always On solution for
business continuity use cases like high availability and disaster recovery:

Windows Server Windows Server

Failover Clustering Failover Clustering
(WSFC) (WSFC)

SQL DB SQL DB
Primary Replica

Shared storage

Always On Availability Groups (AG) Always On Failover Cluster (FCI)

SQL Enterprise Licensing* SQL Standard licensing

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Why Failover Clustering (FCI) over Availability Groups (AG)

TCO: SQL Standard licensing (vs. Enterprise)

Familiar: Common scenario for running SQL on-premises

Faster: storage handles replication (vs. compute), frees up

CPU/Memory on Database server

Simpler: Easier for database admins to ensure HA

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SQL Server Optimization Comparison
AWS Cloud
VPC

Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2

Private subnet Private subnet
SQL Server
Always On

Availability Group
Enterprise
SQL EE Node 1 Edition SQL EE Node 2

AWS Cloud

VPC
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
Private subnet Private subnet

SQL Server FCI Approximate 50%

Standard
Edition
savings
SQL SE Node 1 SQL SE Node 2

FSx NetApp ONTAP

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/modernizing-with-aws/sql-server-high-availability-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap/
https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=ace1aeb3b1a8e8244b9e7e624f79d6ad3db4832f
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FSx for ONTAP multi-AZ architecture
AWS Cloud AWS Direct On-premises network
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
Connect
or VPN

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S&P Global Market Intelligence improves data
resilience and reduces cost with Amazon FSx for
NetApp ONTAP
S&P Global Market
Intelligence is a leading
Challenge Solution Benefits provider of actionable
intelligence on the global
financial markets and the
• Improve availability and • Multi-Region SQL Server • Amazon FSx for NetApp
companies and industries that
accelerate agility for on Amazon EC2 with fully ONTAP for high-
make up those markets.
hundreds of SQL Server managed Amazon FSx for availability, cost-effective
databases. NetApp ONTAP file shared storage solution
systems. for SQL Server FCI DR
• High-availability storage strategy.
solution that spans across • SQL Server Failover
multiple AWS Regions Cluster Instances (FCI) • The SnapMirror
with FSx for NetApp functionality helped
• Cost-effective disaster ONTAPz. reduce RPO only paying
recovery (DR). for storage in use.
• SnapMirror for database-
level replication.
• Deduplication and
compression to reduce
cost.

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Amazon FSx for ONTAP: Benefits
Launch and run fully managed file storage built on NetApp ONTAP

Familiar and fully Fast and cost effective Accessible and Integrated Secure and Compliant
managed

• Fully Managed • Multiple GB/s • Multi-protocol (NFS, • Encrypted at-rest and

• Use AWS and NetApp throughput, 100K+ SMB, iSCSI) in-transit
tools IOPS, sub-ms latencies • Accessible from Linux, • Integration with
• Data replication • Automatic tiering to Windows, MacOS software for Anti-Virus
(SnapMirror),snapshot low cost, reduce costs • EC2, EKS, Workspaces, and Auditing
(SnapVault), caching 90% Appstream 2.0, VMware • Active Directory for
(FlexCache), and cloning • Deduplication, Cloud identity-based
(FlexClone) capabilities compression, • Concurrent, multi- authentication
compaction, thin protocol access • ISO, PCI-DSS, SOC
provisioning compliant and HIPPA
eligible

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Amazon FSx for ONTAP: Performance and scale

Multiple GB/s Hundreds of thousands Consistent

throughput per fs of IOPS per fs sub-millisecond latencies
NEW!
re:Invent
2022
Double max
throughput to 4
GB/s

SMB Multichannel Select throughput

NFS nconnect independently from storage

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Amazon FSx for ONTAP: Cost-effectiveness

Storage tiers
~20% of data
SSD storage
• Sub-ms latencies
Automatic, intelligent
• Optimized for active data
bi-directional data tiering
based on access patterns
Capacity pool storage
• Fully elastic (automatically
grows/shrinks)
• Cost-optimized for ~80% of data
infrequently-accessed data

SSD performance for a fraction of the cost

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Amazon FSx for ONTAP: Space Efficiency
Deduplication Compression

• Thin Provisioning
• Snapshot Block Sharing
• Clone Block Sharing
• Inline Zero-Block Deduplication Compaction

• Inline Adaptive Compression

• Inline Deduplication
• Inline Data Compaction
• Background Deduplication
• Background Compression

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SQL Server Backups Overview

• Full Backups
• All the data

• Log Backups
• Transactions since last log backup

• More Data = More Time

• Backups will only run as fast as storage

and network will allow

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/backup-restore/full-database-backups-sql-server

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NetApp SnapCenter Overview
• Unified platform for application-consistent data protection

• Automated discovery of databases

• Backup and restore options with granularity for full and log backups

• Ability to clone from a backup to any SQL Server host within SnapCenter

• Refresh clones with production data on a regular cadence

• Disaster recovery with replication of backups via SnapMirror

• Use SnapCenter software for FSxN at no additional cost

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Ensuring an application consistent snapshot
SCRIPTED VS SNAPCENTER

NetApp SnapCenter

Stop or quiesce
application

Trigger
snapshot

Release
application
lock

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Data protection: Volume snapshots
ONTAP snapshots Snapshots
Amazon FSx file system
• Fast to create
Volume
• Shorter-term recovery
Data
• Internal, stored on file system volume

• Built-in, automatic or user-scheduled

Snapshot
snapshots
Snapshot A
• Individual file or entire volume restore
Snapshot B
• Crash-consistent and incremental

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Refreshing development environments

Copy production database/datasets to other environments

Dev Test UAT Production

(user acceptance testing)

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Volume cloning with Amazon FSx
EFFICIENT DATASETS, MINIMAL FOOTPRINT

Volume clone 1

Volume Volume clone 2 Dev

Create clones
Data Volume clone 3

Volume clone 4
Snapshot
Test
Snapshot
Snapshot Volume clone 5

Cloning with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Volume clone X UAT

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Volume cloning benefits
ACCESS MORE DATA MORE OFTEN
Multiple datasets (without cloning)
• Create multiple space-efficient, minimal-footprint
copies of your datasets

• Writable, point-in-time copies of a volume

• Share data blocks with parent volume

Multiple datasets (with clones)
• Consume no storage until changes are made

• Fast – created almost instantly

• You can then split a clone into its own independent volume

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Arcesium reduces database refresh time
with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Challenge Solution Benefits Arcesium, headquartered in

NY, USA, designs advanced
• Slow database refreshes • Amazon FSx for NetApp • Reduced storage data, operations, and
ONTAP FlexClones for consumption by ~53% analytics capabilities for the
• Need for cost optimization fast, space efficient (250 TB to 110 TB), financial services industry.
database refreshes. resulting in storage cost
• Maintain a consistent savings of ~46%
point-in-time view across • Storage efficiencies
mission-critical, multi- (deduplication, • 80% reduction in refresh
terabyte databases compression) cost
• Reduced operational • 5x improvement in DB
complexities refresh time

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Session summary
• Challenges of maintaining and refreshing dataset environments
• You can reduce operational complexity, improve agility, and lower costs by
using the in-built features to clone your datasets with Amazon FSx for
NetApp ONTAP
• Accelerate test and development refresh cycles
• Use snapshots and clones to address point-in-time checkpoints
(snapshots) and for presentation of efficient read/write datasets for
dev/test/UAT (clones) – go try it out!

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Resources
Product page https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap
FAQ https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/faqs
Tutorials and on-demand sessions https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/netapp-ontap/resources
Documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/fsx/latest/OntapGuide
GitHub workshop https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-fsx-workshop

SnapCenter Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/using-netapp-snapcenter-with-

amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap-to-protect-your-sql-server-workloads/
FSxN Configuration Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/modernizing-with-aws/sql-server-high-
availability-amazon-fsx-for-netapp-ontap/

Blogs
https://go.aws/3NCE8Z4
https://go.aws/3FM6myr

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Thank you!

Rita Ladda
Sr. Microsoft Specialist Solution Architect
AWS

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Data Protection with Amazon FSx for
NetApp ONTAP
Data Protection and Migration

Varun Seth
AWS Solutions Architect, APJ
NetApp

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Data Protection

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 Why is data protection needed?
• Modern companies are in the data business…regardless of
what they make or sell
▪ Oil and gas companies use data to find new reserves

▪ Online retailers depend on customer data to promote their

products and services
▪ Brick and mortar businesses make critical decisions from sales
and traffic data
• Accessibility of data must be ubiquitous
▪ Fast access means making data available broadly

▪ Loss of access can prevent a business from serving its

customers
• Loss of data cannot happen
▪ Every piece of data is an opportunity

▪ Recovering lost data might be impossible

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Data protection must be multi-layered
Safeguarding data from corruption, compromise, or loss

Local Metro Regional

< 1km < 50km < 300km

Primary site

or or or

Power, hardware, Floods, storms, and Tropical cyclones, and

network earthquakes major disasters
User error, accidental deletion
Malicious actors (internal and external)
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Data protection metrics

Last valid copy Disruptive Recovered data

event

Timeline

Recovery point Recovery time

How much data loss How long to recover

Recovery point objective (RPO) Recovery time objective (RTO)

The maximum acceptable amount of The maximum acceptable amount

data that can be lost if a failure occurs of time that can elapse before data
is made available after a failure

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Data Protection Strategies
Backup and archive Disaster recovery Continuous availability

I have backup copies of my I have secondary systems I have parallel systems ready
data if I need them. available if I need them. if I need them.

Hours / days Minutes / hours Seconds / minutes

Recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO)

Total cost of data protection solution

$ $$$ $$$$$
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 Data protection technologies and RPO / RTO
Disruptive
event

Recovery point objective Recovery time objective

(RPO) (RTO)
Technology
Tape/VTL
vaulting
Tape/VTL
Backup and backup
Recovery
D2D/D2C backup

Async replication
Disaster Zero data loss (RPO=0)
recovery
Sync replication Very low RTO

Continuous
Business replication
Continuity - - - 0 1 2 3 4 6 7
36 24 12 2 4 6 8 0 2
Data loss Recovery time

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Feature rich NetApp ONTAP

Storage management Access protocols Storage Efficiency Data protection Data security
✔FlexVol ✔Deduplication ✔Snapshots
✔NFS – v3, v4.x ✔FPolicy and VScan
✔FlexGroup ✔Compression ✔SnapRestore
✔Active Directory integration
✔SMB – v2, v3, CA
✔LUN ✔Compaction ✔SnapMirror ✔LDAP and Kerberos
✔S3
✔Namespace ✔Thin provisioning ✔SnapMirror Cloud ✔Multiple SVMs
✔iSCSI
✔Qtrees ✔Tiering ✔SnapLock ✔File access auditing
✔Multi-protocol access
✔Quotas
✔Antivirus
✔FlexCache
✔FlexClone

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 NetApp Snapshots

• Read-only point-in-time image of a volume

• Consumes minimal storage space

• Only changes made at the block level (4KB)

• Incur negligible performance overhead

• Instantaneous non-disruptive creation

• Managed manually and through policies

• Can be managed through NetApp SnapCenter for application-
aware protection

• Serves as local backups and enable quick recovery

• The basis for other ONTAP technologies such as

cloning (FlexClone) and replication (SnapMirror)

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 FSxN Backups
• Volume level snapshot-based backups maintained on
separate storage
▪ Leverages ONTAP backup architecture (SnapMirror Cloud)

▪ Part of the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP service

• Backups are block-level incremental forever

• Preserve ONTAP storage efficiencies
• Created automatically on a daily-basis or user-initiated
• Restore operation creates a new volume from backup
▪ Restore target can only be an FSx for ONTAP file system

• FSx for ONTAP backup and restore operations can also be

managed through the AWS Backup service

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 NetApp SnapMirror

• Asynchronous snapshot-based replication

SnapMirror
▪ Replicates snapshots to create a data replica of a volume or an SVM in
separate location
▪ Updates occur on a user-defined schedule Region 1 Region 2
• Data transfer is block-level incremental forever

• Retains all ONTAP storage efficiencies

SnapMirror
Data SnapMirror
▪ Tiering to capacity pool is supported on destination
estate
• In-flight encryption with AES 256-bit GCM

• Managed through policies or manually

▪ NetApp SnapCenter can be used for application-aware replication
US-EAST-1
• Use cases
▪ Disaster recovery, backup, and archive Corporate
Data Center SnapMirror
▪ Migration

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 Disaster Recovery
Source Destination

Writeable
• All source snapshots are replicated clone

• An exact replica is maintained on destination Normal Read-write Mirror Read-only

operatio
• Updates occur based on a schedule ns Snapsh Snapsh
ot ot
▪ The schedule selected defines the RPO copies copies

▪ Minimum of one-minute intervals

• During normal operations, destination can be

accessed in read-only
▪ Writeable clones can be created from snapshots for
Source Destination
DR testing
• During failover, destination is “activated”, and
read-write access is allowed Failover
Unavailable Broken Read-write

• Replication direction can be reversed to facilitate

Snapsh Snapsh
failback ot ot
copies copies

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Backup and Archive
• Only selected snapshots are replicated
• Different snapshot retention is maintained on
destination Source Destination
• Updates occur based on a schedule
Writeable
▪ SnapMirror transfers the selected snapshot copies that clone
have been made since the last update Read
write Vault Read
• Destination can be accessed in read-only forever only

▪ Cannot be failed over to

▪ Writeable clones can be created from snapshots

Snapshot
• Snapshots and individual files can be replicated back for copies
recovery purposes
Selected
snapshot
Snapshots and copies
individual
files recovery

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Replication Topologies

Hybrid cloud Cross-region

On-premises AWS Cloud AWS Cloud

data center

us-west-1 us-east-1
(N. California) (N. Virginia)

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Application-aware Protection

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 NetApp SnapCenter Overview

Applications

NetApp® Supported Custom Supported

Do more, faster

Faster backup Efficient copy

and recovery and data
management

Infrastructure Improve productivity

Data fabric powered by NetApp Deliver value faster

Centralize Enhanced
management Hybrid cloud
Cloud Volumes ONTAP Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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 NetApp SnapCenter Software

• Provides application-consistent data protection

for applications, databases, host file systems,
and VMs running on ONTAP-based systems on- SnapCenter
premises and in the cloud Server
SQL SQL
plug-in plug-in
• Includes a server and plug-ins
Windows Windows
plug-in plug-in
• Used as centralized control and oversight for
disaster recovery, backups, restores, and Operating
system
Operating
system
cloning operations

• Leverages NetApp Snapshot, SnapRestore,

SnapMirror, and FlexClone technologies
Database Backup
• Supports MSSQL, Oracle, SAP HANA, and administrator storage
more (DBA) administrator

SnapMirror
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NetApp SnapCenter Key Features

Lower TCO Faster and more Faster restores Scalable and performant
frequent backups

Policy-driven backup and Filesystem-based Snapshot™ Application-aware Easy to manage with UI

recovery, and copy copies integrated with backups or automation tool
management application ecosystem
Enhanced reporting

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Use case: Migrate/disaster recovery of SQL Server
Customer data center
Region

Customer AWS Account

Customer VPC DC

Private subnet

DC

SnapCenter
Clone or alternate
host restore
SC

Mount NFS or map ISCSI

App App

Amazon FSx for

NetApp ONTAP
FC, iSCSI

SQL DB SQL DB

Replicate data
(NetApp SnapMirror) SQL logs SQL logs
ISCSI Database Transaction After SnapCenter
app-consistent ONTAP volumes or LUNs
volume(s) log
backup
volume(s)

ONTAP storage system

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Migration

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Migrating to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
File Object

NetApp
Cloud Sync

ONTAP File

NetApp Standard
SnapMirror copy tools

AWS AWS
DataSync Snowball

File Object File Object

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On-Prem NetApp to FSxN Migration
AWS Cloud

Customer VPC – 10.10.0.0/16

Availability Zone 1

Mount BlueXP
FSX iSCSI, NFS and SMB volumes
Corporate
AWS EC2 data center

FSx ONTAP Filesystem

Replication
SnapMirror
Amazon FSx for
NetApp ONTAP AWS Direct Connect
or Site-to-Site VPN
Availability Zone 2
FSx ONTAP Filesystem Virtual iSCSI, NFS and SMB volumes

Server Mount
FSx iSCSI, NFS and SMB volumes

AWS EC2

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Thank you!
Varun Seth
[email protected]

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