Hello and thank you for joining this session in which we'll be covering the evolving landscape of VMware cloud solutions with NetUP cloud storage. My name is Chris Reno and I'm a technical marketing engineer here at NetApp focused on virtualization and cloud solutions. Let's jump right in. Here's our agenda for our brief session. We will cover some of our recent announcements. We will have a cloud storage discussion and use VMware cloud on AWS as an example to dive into guest connect and supplement NFS data store support use cases as well as roll into an architecture discussion including Amazon FSX for NetApp on finally I will share resources with you as we wrap things up. I like to start here because it really sets the stage for us. Whether you're new to NetApp or have worked with us for many years it is important to understand the partnership that we have with VMware. We have innovated with VMware on premises for decades and we're taking that relationship and helping them to tackle the public cloud as well. We have over 20 years invested into our engineering relationship which is a huge reason why VMware has partnered with us in the public clouds given our mature presence there as well. If you've been exposed to NetApp over the past several years then you know we have been going through an evolution meeting customers where they are with their data needs whether on premises or in the public clouds. Our work with VMware is a continuation of that effort with a focus on the VMware customer and it's really a realization of years worth of work. We have worked with VMware in the public clouds from the beginning in the form of guest connected storage through marketplace offerings. From there we worked with them on incorporating firstparty storage solutions and now our evolution to supporting NFS data stores is the next chapter in this journey. Since I mentioned NFS data stores, let's dive more into that and what has recently been announced. For over a year, we've been marching towards supplemental NFS data store support with VMware and the major hyperscalers. And what has been announced is support for NFS data stores with VMware and AWS with Amazon FSX for NetUP on Azure VMware solution with Azure NetApp files and CVS on Google as well. When we're talking about protocols or data store differentiation, we know this is a pretty technical use case, but it is something that has the potential to benefit every VMware customer. That is because VMware provides the management layer to allow you to deploy VMs or containers to satisfy your application or workloads. They partner with storage companies like NetApp to help provide customers choice whether at certain price points, performance needs or data protection confi uh considerations just to name a few. For on premises, we usually talk about shared storage being deployed to satisfy data store needs or guest connected scenarios. Simply put, uh, VSCenter knows about data stores and it really isn't involved when deploying guest connected storage. And the same applies uh for the cloud. The difference is that up until this fall, you only had the option of VSAN for data store and VMware in the public clouds. And there's always been a lot of options when it comes to guest connected scenarios. Let's talk through some of those scenarios a bit more. When we're talking on premises, NetApp supports pretty much any storage protocol that VMware does when it comes to serving data. We've been working on extending our on- premises capabilities to the public cloud with Google, AWS, and Azure. As I was mentioning, you can use NetApp Snap Mirror or Cloud Sync for many of these scenarios. And we've also developed solutions using thirdparty tools as well, including VMware HCX. We have many customers today that are deploying NetApp on premises, NetApp as guest connected storage in the cloud and now as NFS data storage in the public clouds as well. As you can tell, we've got many options for customers as they evolve in the public clouds. And NetApp is the only storage partner that can offer this many options. When other vendors say they work with VMware in the public clouds, they don't have a portfolio like this. So, let's spend a bit more time on one in particular with FSXN as a NFS data store. Let's jump into a storage discussion with VMC. First, we're going to talk about data stores with VMC before this new offering which came out this fall. If you aren't a VMware cloud customer today, you may ask yourself, why do I even need VMware in the cloud? Can't I just do uh EC2 instances for instance? Well, the answer there is of course you can. But if you're a VMware customer on premises, VMware cloud solutions allow you to take advantage of cloud offerings without refactoring, which is a huge benefit for customers. Next, VMware in the cloud provides a proven means to extend to the cloud. And finally, you can use the same tools and processes to manage your resources whether on premises or in the cloud. Think VMware HCX, VSCenter with hybrid link mode and the VR realized suite now called Arya. If you're using those tools today, then the progression to VMware and the public clouds is pretty much seamless. Let's do a mini deep dive on storage with VMware in the cloud. You see, VMware cloud solutions lever an HCI platform which you likely know VSAN. VMware has many happy customers using VSAN today, but there are limitations. That is because it ties compute and storage together and every time you add a new node, you're adding processing power, memory, and storage as well. That is fine if you're growing these resources in unison, but often they do not grow this way. This means you wind up overpaying for compute resources that are underutilized. This architecture design is exasperated the larger your environment grows and for many customers this becomes a financial blocker for adoption of VMware in the cloud. Now let's talk about how supplemental data stores can help us as we grow with storage heavy workloads. Here's our VMware cloud offering again. Let's take a look at scaling this environment. Here are our nodes for VSAN which you still need in these offerings. We're not talking about replacing VSAN. We're talking about complementing this VMware offering. Now let's add a data store offering with FSXN on AWS, CVS on Google or Azure NetUP files on Azure. You can see with this approach, we can scale our storage independent of compute. Just like on premises, you can rightsize your environment based on your workload needs. A and the storage you're not you're adding isn't just some dumb storage, you're adding on tap. So you get storage efficiencies which offer huge savings. You're also getting all of our intelligent data services including Snapmir, anti-ransomware, multi-protocol support, cloning, and much more. The biggest takeaway is that by leveraging NetApp and ONTAP, we're eliminating one of the financial blockers for VMware in the public clouds. Now that we've had that brief discussion, let's take a closer look at the architecture. Now, I don't typically spend a ton of time on architectures because cloud customers need to have confidence that their environment is going to be performant and easy to set up. That is one of the reasons for going to the cloud in the first place because you don't want to have to worry about the infrastructure as much. Having said that, this slide walks through the architecture today, but we're actively working with VMware and AWS on improvements here. First, we have our STDC environment for our VMware cloud. This includes the VSSAN environment as well as the management VMs in a VMware managed VPC. On the lefth hand side, we have our deployed FSXN file system which can be deployed in a dedicated VPC or it can be deployed in the customer's existing AWS VPC. We have a few things that we need to do to theVMC STDC to allow communication to our FSXN instance. But the workflow is simple and includes things like setting up uh allowing account communications, deploying your transit connect, your security group settings, and recording the IP address of the FSXN file system. Once those are done, it is as simple as right clicking and deploying a new NFS data store on VMC and telling it to use the FSXN file system. The operation is just like you would do on premises. The best part isthat whichever cloud provider you're working with, the VMware NetApp solution just works and that is a testament to the many years of engineering that has gone into the partnership. As we're heading towards closing here, I wanted to provide a few resources where you can get more information. The first is our landing page which includes all the latest information and developments. The next is our solutions page in which we post all of our technical documentation and videos. And then finally in closing, I wanted to emphasize that NetApp helps remove barriers to cloud adoption and in particular VMware cloud adoption. By scaling your compute independent of your storage in the cloud with a proven partner like NetApp, you gain many benefits across the board. Whether you're a NetApp customer today or you're giving us a first look, allowing you to help you focus on your day job. So whether you're looking at guest connected solutions or needing data store support in the cloud, NetApp has you covered. Thank you again and have a great