Category: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Most organizations closely track their spending to ensure that their resources are being used efficiently. Tracking how much different business units are spending provides crucial insights into the efficacy of certain types of spending to an organizations goals or bottom line. An IT chargeback system assigns the costs of services to the business units or […]

Kubernetes is a popular choice among many developers for application deployments, and many of these deployments can benefit from a persistent, shared storage layer. Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is a managed OpenShift integration on AWS developed by Red Hat and jointly supported by AWS and Red Hat. ROSA clusters typically store data […]

Update (February 23, 2023): No additional licensing is required to use SnapCenter software with FSx for NetApp ONTAP. See instructions on how to sign up for a NetApp account in our updated FSx for ONTAP user guide. SQL Server deployments need application-consistent backups and the ability to quickly restore or clone databases for development, testing, […]

File systems are an essential component of organizations. Among the most common requirements of any organization is access to shared data storage, which is readily available on via cloud infrastructures. An issue that has slowed migration to the cloud has been that tools and processes can be very different, requiring time to re-educate administrators. Amazon […]

Update (3/13/2023): When creating a target group, the Network Load Balancer currently verifies that the target IP is part of a subnet in the specified VPC, which means the approach outlined in this blog cannot be employed anymore. A core architecture principle of building highly available applications on AWS is to use a multi-Availability Zone […]

If you are new to AWS and trying to figure out which Storage services to use, how to use them, and best practices, it can be challenging to find guidance that you can trust. The depth of features and options means that even experienced users can identify better solutions with continuous learning. But how do […]

UPDATE (4/25/2023): DataSync Discovery is now generally available. For more information on additional capabilities and extended availability, view the What’s New post and visit the feature page. Migrating your on-premises data to the cloud can be intimidating at first, particularly when you are working with large and complex storage systems. Estimating costs, understanding which data […]

When planning a data migration you need to evaluate migration tools, determine whether you have the available bandwidth for an online migration and understand the characteristics of the source and target destination. There are situations where you may be looking to migrate data from on-premises storage or other AWS storage services to Amazon FSx for […]

Update (10/26/2022): This blog was updated to recommend that you validate that your file system can contact the log forwarding IP addresses. Log and audit event monitoring is a vital part of any organization’s security practices. For file systems, this involves logging end-user activities (such as file access attempts) as well as administrative actions that […]

There are use cases where applications demand the highest IOPS and throughput to achieve strict service level requirements. You may have seen how it’s possible to leverage the immense horizontal storage scalability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) into concentrated vertically scaled storage performance in my recent blog “SAN in the Cloud: Millions of IOPs […]