Cloud Services Flashcards
What service offerings does ONTAP have?
Cloud sync
Cloud Tiering
Cloud Backup
Global file cache
Cloud Data Sense
Virtual Desktop service (VDI)
Features and benefits of cloud services
Automate deployment and management of netapp storage systems in any cloud and on prem.
Simply data backup and restore of your house of cloud or on prem
Optimised data placement and ensure storage efficiency
Classify and categorize your data for data compliance and regulatory requirements
Monitor your cloud and on premises with Cloud insights, cloud manager in a single pane
Factors to consider
Workload - what data you want to run and where
Cost -
Management
Cloud assessment tool
Analyses cloud storage resources
Idenifies cost savings opertunities
Provides optimisation recommendations
Provide storage enhancement information
Cloud Centeral
Provides centralised location to access and manage public cloud services
Run critical applications in the cloud
Create automated DR sites
Backup SaaS data
Migrate and control data across multiple clouds
Cloud Sync Service
Service for rapid and secure data sync. Easy to use cloud replication and sync for transferring NAS data between onprem and cloud object stores.
Benefits: seamless operations, simple to use, continuous sync of large workloads, cost effective
Use cases
Data Migration - move data from NAS to object storage
Big data analytics - enables you to use cloud analytics to make data-drive business decisions
Onboarding cloud environments - convert and copy your file-based datasets to the cloud
Cloud Tiering Service
Free up high performance AFF (and FAS with SSD) storage by automatically Tiering infrequently used data to the cloud.
Based on Netapp Fabric Pool technology. Identifies infrequently used data (onprem) and automatically moves it to e cloud.
Benefits: zero-effort data Center extension to the cloud, cost reduction, storage capacity optimisation and scaling.
Cloud Backup Service
Integrated feature of Netapp Cloud Manager to deliver seamless backup and restore for cloud volumes and on premises ONTAP data.
Data is encrypted with AES-256-bit encryption and uses TLS 1.2 HTTPS connections when in flight.
Benefits: automation, Quick backups (incremental forever), limitless scalability, instant and granular restore, API drive.
Use cases: Cloud backup and archive, DR, Ransomeware protection and modernisation.
Global File Cache
Offers seamless and intelligent global data fabric with azure netapp files, Netapp cloud volumes service and cloud volume Ontap.
Deploys client side software at edge locations. And copies of the data is transferred there.
Benefits; cloud agnostic, high performance by storing data in local site caches.
Use case: Distributed file server consolidation; Global VDI, large file Collabortation
Cloud Data Sense
Discover potential data risks.
Automate data governance
Assist with data migration projects
Works with: On Prem
Cloud volumes ONTAP for AWS, AZURE, Google cloud
Azure NetApp files
Amazon S3 buckets
Supported datasources: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SAP HANA, MSQL
Netapp SnapMirror dat protection volumes
Virtual Desktop Service
Global control pane for VDI management as a cloud extension. It is a SaaS service that users access. The local control plane sits on a VM instance. It services as a jump server to run tasks locally.
Features:
Enterprise-class deployment automation
Supports private, public and hybrid clouds
Streamline management of window VD
Resource scaling and optimisation
User and identity management
Integration with Netapp public cloud services
Open Rest API capabilities
