b6f2a272-5d89-44ae-9c6c-249c74821cb1-0 Are you responsible for spinning up cloud environments for b6f2a272-5d89-44ae-9c6c-249c74821cb1-1 database development, testing or staging? 8ea90a52-4f11-49c5-b65c-d20566146e19-0 Do you find that it's a complex process which can occur major 8ea90a52-4f11-49c5-b65c-d20566146e19-1 cloud storage cost and can often take hours to create and copy 8ea90a52-4f11-49c5-b65c-d20566146e19-2 all the data? 6268bcb3-a749-4055-93d3-29101031bb24-0 Hours in which you and others are just waiting to start 6268bcb3-a749-4055-93d3-29101031bb24-1 working? 10bf407e-4c76-40c0-a179-1197c83ff8fa-0 If you answered yes to any of these questions, Amazon FS6 10bf407e-4c76-40c0-a179-1197c83ff8fa-1 Panetta Pothap has the answer for you. 703c015c-6abb-4ef2-a285-a72ede01cb05-0 Speed up environments for a database in seconds instead of 703c015c-6abb-4ef2-a285-a72ede01cb05-1 hours in occurring minimal to no additional cloud storage costs. 58d8c489-5f28-4d52-8468-881b6a4791b0-0 And with the new Blue XP Workload factor forehead, you 58d8c489-5f28-4d52-8468-881b6a4791b0-1 can also easily automate all this using vendor and industry 58d8c489-5f28-4d52-8468-881b6a4791b0-2 best practices. 6f0af8c6-f52e-414d-b09a-f8ff008bc403-0 In this FSX part of Workload Inside and Out video, we'll show 6f0af8c6-f52e-414d-b09a-f8ff008bc403-1 you how to use FSX part of thing cloning feature together with 6f0af8c6-f52e-414d-b09a-f8ff008bc403-2 Blue XP Workload factory to do just that. dc248082-13b4-4db9-9f4e-10e63e6ffa21-0 So you're responsible for creating new cloud environments dc248082-13b4-4db9-9f4e-10e63e6ffa21-1 for databases or updating the data of existing ones. 185cd7ae-67d8-493c-aa4a-c412f424e24d-0 And you need to do it quickly and efficiently. d897d579-8017-4ebf-888e-df95ab5653a4-0 Like this financial services company. 7902591a-c63e-4335-8614-294d0d3ef802-0 They had multiple environments including production, staging, 7902591a-c63e-4335-8614-294d0d3ef802-1 and dev test running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud EC2 and 7902591a-c63e-4335-8614-294d0d3ef802-2 Amazon Elastic Block Store ABS. a76cf6a3-4e3e-4c33-bfd8-3e496e8aaecc-0 On this infrastructure, they run over 500 Microsoft SQL databases a76cf6a3-4e3e-4c33-bfd8-3e496e8aaecc-1 for the SAS application. 6863149b-3f44-4559-9fe0-52e7c133d90e-0 They use the continuous backup process to capture updated 6863149b-3f44-4559-9fe0-52e7c133d90e-1 images of the production and copied them to refresh their 6863149b-3f44-4559-9fe0-52e7c133d90e-2 staging and dev test environments on an ongoing 6863149b-3f44-4559-9fe0-52e7c133d90e-3 basis. d64a876c-69b5-4018-a0e0-a4cc9e2fa2a7-0 This copying process took hours and incurred additional compute d64a876c-69b5-4018-a0e0-a4cc9e2fa2a7-1 and storage for each copy. 6a8d6aa6-ed1f-47ae-b000-644d10b40ddb-0 Replacing the underlying storage infrastructure with FSX Pro On 6a8d6aa6-ed1f-47ae-b000-644d10b40ddb-1 Top provided the company with a single service for a file and 6a8d6aa6-ed1f-47ae-b000-644d10b40ddb-2 block storage across all its environments. 938d2b4c-1f94-4ca8-8705-4350cc605891-0 FSX Pro on Top uses Think Learning technology, which 938d2b4c-1f94-4ca8-8705-4350cc605891-1 eliminates the need for actually copying data. 06c90fc6-5050-43a0-8d8d-faf092ab8fd3-0 A lightweight net app snapshot of the production data is 06c90fc6-5050-43a0-8d8d-faf092ab8fd3-1 created utilizing almost no additional storage and then used 06c90fc6-5050-43a0-8d8d-faf092ab8fd3-2 to instantly create as many clouds as needed with no 06c90fc6-5050-43a0-8d8d-faf092ab8fd3-3 additional storage usage as well. 2d5dfe05-67b7-49c2-aa62-9cff28e1a481-0 This provided the company's development teams with instant 2d5dfe05-67b7-49c2-aa62-9cff28e1a481-1 up to date dev test environments without affecting cost. 73c4a840-2a2d-44e5-9996-7fd3410a41ba-0 Want to understand how FSX Point of Think Learning did all this 73c4a840-2a2d-44e5-9996-7fd3410a41ba-1 and what it can do for you? cff5faf2-3666-4d07-990a-30285b24e746-0 Let's see a technical explanation and hands on demo cff5faf2-3666-4d07-990a-30285b24e746-1 that do just that. e49be0f3-4b6b-40a8-b6fa-6dee0e656d76-0 Amazon FS6 for Net App On top is an edibles fully managed storage e49be0f3-4b6b-40a8-b6fa-6dee0e656d76-1 service powered by Net Apps technology. 510875a0-322a-4edf-9508-ab18b46ec95e-0 It provides intelligent storage for business critical workloads 510875a0-322a-4edf-9508-ab18b46ec95e-1 through a comprehensive and flexible sets of storage 510875a0-322a-4edf-9508-ab18b46ec95e-2 features for accessibility, resilience and protection, data 510875a0-322a-4edf-9508-ab18b46ec95e-3 security, price performance and data mobility in copies. 2a250fd9-4050-4b6e-9b5b-fc9eaae50694-0 One of these features is called thin cloning. 9d5a29ba-1bb1-41f6-82c8-c1d281eeffbd-0 Net apps customers may know it as Flex clone and will now 9d5a29ba-1bb1-41f6-82c8-c1d281eeffbd-1 explain how it works. bffcf047-49fb-4ce6-b6de-21ef7e176504-0 An FS6 point up thin clone volume is a point in time, fully bffcf047-49fb-4ce6-b6de-21ef7e176504-1 functional copy of a volume. 0394e43e-64d8-4efe-9de3-438ca7d197fd-0 You can do anything you want with it, like any other volume, 0394e43e-64d8-4efe-9de3-438ca7d197fd-1 but as opposed to simple copying, not that the copy is 0394e43e-64d8-4efe-9de3-438ca7d197fd-2 involved in creating this clone. b8598982-45ad-4abb-9718-06f6ee6f9c96-0 This means that thin clones are created instantly no matter how b8598982-45ad-4abb-9718-06f6ee6f9c96-1 big the source volumes are in current, no performance overhead b8598982-45ad-4abb-9718-06f6ee6f9c96-2 and require almost no additional storage. 6ff22411-02a4-436e-818e-f0d417073555-0 How is this achieved? 6c2b0efa-380f-43b3-a12b-d84f09484a51-0 An F 6.1 up thin clone is based on a snapshot, a read only point 6c2b0efa-380f-43b3-a12b-d84f09484a51-1 in time image of the source volumes data. eafedb8e-e9ed-4326-bed3-37777660b476-0 Snapshots contain only pointers to the source volumes active eafedb8e-e9ed-4326-bed3-37777660b476-1 data and not that is copied. 0036f07d-50d1-4cab-a0e6-1df3f3d66964-0 This is why they are created instantly. fb4f68a6-d8a8-45a0-b413-42d883bafbe1-0 Applications access the source data when accessing the clone. cc54db3c-656a-42b8-8a40-3f1b452def86-0 The clone volume is however not just readable but also writable. 824ad028-9de7-4a42-ad0a-9f25d61d6b03-0 As changes are made to it,starts to continue storage 824ad028-9de7-4a42-ad0a-9f25d61d6b03-1 capacity. 9a7a1f80-8b1e-4c15-ba29-adfdd46fa2a4-0 Changes made to the clone volume do not affect the source volume 9a7a1f80-8b1e-4c15-ba29-adfdd46fa2a4-1 and vice versa. 91898c3c-85d8-4ef1-b929-963fe8f55e24-0 The source and the clones are essentially 2 independent 91898c3c-85d8-4ef1-b929-963fe8f55e24-1 separate volumes. 78af5663-5b2e-4b6e-b672-e0fc74caba7e-0 This FSX Front Top thin cloning capability allows you to 78af5663-5b2e-4b6e-b672-e0fc74caba7e-1 instantly create as many fully functional copies of your 78af5663-5b2e-4b6e-b672-e0fc74caba7e-2 production data as you need for any purpose without slowing you 78af5663-5b2e-4b6e-b672-e0fc74caba7e-3 down or adding substantial costs. c458db92-8c08-442d-bc2c-861935d73c5e-0 Thin clones can be managed on FSX Front app using the On Top c458db92-8c08-442d-bc2c-861935d73c5e-1 CLI, the On Top API and also from Net app, Snap Center or c458db92-8c08-442d-bc2c-861935d73c5e-2 Blue XP Wordplot Factory. 40293a4f-5686-4551-a899-0d7bae3ba82f-0 Now that we've covered all those to know about thing cloning, 40293a4f-5686-4551-a899-0d7bae3ba82f-1 let's see a hands on demonstration. 0edfe844-5a2b-4612-aad1-1cbdb6a0b6b3-0 We have a Microsoft SQL deployment which we can see here 0edfe844-5a2b-4612-aad1-1cbdb6a0b6b3-1 in the Microsoft SQL Management Studio. 6940e422-cf3b-4de9-83fa-785387b0393a-0 It's a single database named Demo, one terabyte. 2548a250-c466-4817-8e0a-ee379568450e-0 If I click on the properties I can see it's 2 files, one for 2548a250-c466-4817-8e0a-ee379568450e-1 the data which is around one terabyte in size and another one 2548a250-c466-4817-8e0a-ee379568450e-2 for the logs which is 5 gigabyte. 4b897cc6-6392-4a10-b05e-72d21deff6e4-0 These are both stored on FSX Pro. f07b0f8e-da2e-47ac-8edf-f8cda6126829-0 On top we can see these files mapped in the windows folder as f07b0f8e-da2e-47ac-8edf-f8cda6126829-1 well. a0d1ff55-691f-49f7-b9de-99876dd91d01-0 Here I can see that the volume size we provisioned for the data a0d1ff55-691f-49f7-b9de-99876dd91d01-1 is 3 1/2 terabyte and around 100 gigabyte for the logs. b2fa800d-5a87-4521-adc8-6e22a25dfb77-0 Now I'm opening the command line prompt for FSX on tab and we can b2fa800d-5a87-4521-adc8-6e22a25dfb77-1 see the same information here as well. 8eaaa036-265f-4e8c-aa01-1748c7333685-0 Now let's go to Snap Center, which is Netapp's orchestration 8eaaa036-265f-4e8c-aa01-1748c7333685-1 tool for managing snapshots and clones. 7a159881-ffa9-41fe-ace6-eda45c7a075f-0 Clones are created from snapshots, so I'll choose the 7a159881-ffa9-41fe-ace6-eda45c7a075f-1 snapshot from which I spin up the clone and click clone. 931ed5ea-f257-4d4c-9419-575109e1151f-0 I am prompted with a simple wizard which I quickly go 931ed5ea-f257-4d4c-9419-575109e1151f-1 through. a0201933-2aba-4972-99a4-fd1ab61fbf75-0 I choose the source server, the source instance, and give a name a0201933-2aba-4972-99a4-fd1ab61fbf75-1 for the clone. 9a44b09c-fc90-4576-a301-a1cc274eaea4-0 We name it Demo, one terabyte underline, clone 0112. 0953a0f9-b5b8-45b6-a9b0-4576be21b090-0 There are also options to select the logs to clone, bound 0953a0f9-b5b8-45b6-a9b0-4576be21b090-1 options, optional scripts we can use, and the notifications we 0953a0f9-b5b8-45b6-a9b0-4576be21b090-2 want to get. f96eb4d3-268d-4e95-b79f-0f3cd6ea6df7-0 All my chosen options appear in the summary. a0fc340e-460f-4786-8996-d7e73bb936b6-0 Once I'm good with it, I just press Finish and the cloning is a0fc340e-460f-4786-8996-d7e73bb936b6-1 initiated. 598c4e41-fb61-4fa3-ad39-7299a9a0984e-0 I can follow the process in the Job details window. ba564a68-c343-4e5f-a34a-6e6d059d8743-0 I'm speeding up this part of the video for the sake of clarity, ba564a68-c343-4e5f-a34a-6e6d059d8743-1 but when the cloning is done, we can see that it took less than ba564a68-c343-4e5f-a34a-6e6d059d8743-2 two minutes to clone one terabyte of data. ac45e7b1-427b-4a51-b95e-e14c5a549542-0 That's right, less than two minutes instead of hours. cf54bf36-6b32-4fc9-9767-b4d0f5a5a4bf-0 Now let's switch back to the SQL Management Studio, refresh it cf54bf36-6b32-4fc9-9767-b4d0f5a5a4bf-1 and voila, we indeed added a new database called Demo One cf54bf36-6b32-4fc9-9767-b4d0f5a5a4bf-2 terabyte underline clone 0112. 6d23cf35-a418-4cd3-bb75-134fb38af217-0 Let's take a look at its properties and we'll see they 6d23cf35-a418-4cd3-bb75-134fb38af217-1 are identical to the one with clone from. 5449d762-ba12-4a82-b07f-4c0d08447e53-0 It has 2 files, one for data, which is one terabyte, and one 5449d762-ba12-4a82-b07f-4c0d08447e53-1 for the logs, which is 5 gigabytes. 68bf5ce8-5d5e-4450-aa7a-a98da527d1e5-0 Now if you've seen our cloning technical explanation, you know 68bf5ce8-5d5e-4450-aa7a-a98da527d1e5-1 that an FS6 for on top clone takes up almost no additional 68bf5ce8-5d5e-4450-aa7a-a98da527d1e5-2 storage. 6cb63a0f-babd-44e0-ab02-a402b958a32b-0 Let's see if that's true. 99ec3e7d-8d9b-4a6b-9d49-84c37a3c439c-0 We open the command line prompt to our FS6 for on top deployment 99ec3e7d-8d9b-4a6b-9d49-84c37a3c439c-1 and we can see that the new clone consumes only 23 megabytes 99ec3e7d-8d9b-4a6b-9d49-84c37a3c439c-2 of storage, even though the database has one terabyte of 99ec3e7d-8d9b-4a6b-9d49-84c37a3c439c-3 data capacity. c6c0720c-a0d2-4761-b09d-76ebaaaaca72-0 Amazing. c08b5f1a-a2a9-4af8-a2ee-7ead1eacf19d-0 So this is how you can clone one terabyte of SQL database data in c08b5f1a-a2a9-4af8-a2ee-7ead1eacf19d-1 less than two minutes and with almost no additional storage c08b5f1a-a2a9-4af8-a2ee-7ead1eacf19d-2 capacity. bd22e31f-3afb-429c-8b37-ee40084f1537-0 Think of all the time and cost you are saving. bee6d701-66dd-47cf-9d9a-0779b39ba5bb-0 And now for the cherry on the icing, there's a simpler way of bee6d701-66dd-47cf-9d9a-0779b39ba5bb-1 doing all this with a service called Blue Xpia Workload bee6d701-66dd-47cf-9d9a-0779b39ba5bb-2 Factory, which is an optimization and automation bee6d701-66dd-47cf-9d9a-0779b39ba5bb-3 service for workloads using FS6 for on top. b6f66039-6f3a-46b1-9276-b3bca3357eb5-0 Here it is, we're on its homepage. 74eefb58-3c5a-40d5-a502-499c6f9c8c22-0 We chose the database workload and go to the Sandboxes tab. 80ff9eb9-1a02-4a0d-a9c6-64653396a86a-0 The workload factory database clones are called Sandboxes and 80ff9eb9-1a02-4a0d-a9c6-64653396a86a-1 they utilize the same thing, cloning technology. a49185ee-486e-49ed-b490-7e19d902b74e-0 In this tab I can see an aggregated view of all my a49185ee-486e-49ed-b490-7e19d902b74e-1 existing sandboxes and drill down into their properties to a49185ee-486e-49ed-b490-7e19d902b74e-2 create a new clone. d7054ab0-3482-4fcb-be6f-4b9d4d9291b2-0 I click Create New Sandbox and choose the source database host, d7054ab0-3482-4fcb-be6f-4b9d4d9291b2-1 the source database instance, and the source database. 96146bc7-94b0-42c3-b49c-a719b1b6f93d-0 I then choose the destination parameters, name the new 96146bc7-94b0-42c3-b49c-a719b1b6f93d-1 sandbox, choose the mount option, and choose the tag for 96146bc7-94b0-42c3-b49c-a719b1b6f93d-2 the sandbox I'm about to create. d2d5904f-3b1c-4187-a859-1502f6c2d19a-0 Note that as I set up the parameters, this black box on d2d5904f-3b1c-4187-a859-1502f6c2d19a-1 the right side is updated accordingly. d876cc12-60ae-4673-ae9b-1ac9b301618c-0 This is Workload Factory's code box. 20d82d88-ac88-4fa8-b7c2-9ab51d93f65e-0 It creates snippets of infrastructure as a code for 20d82d88-ac88-4fa8-b7c2-9ab51d93f65e-1 automation, in this example using REST API, which you can 20d82d88-ac88-4fa8-b7c2-9ab51d93f65e-2 easily copy and use in your regular workflows. 0f90cd58-6c44-4f22-ac78-dc1bfb46a3e0-0 When I'm done, I click Create and workload factor creates the 0f90cd58-6c44-4f22-ac78-dc1bfb46a3e0-1 sandbox. ac239d1a-d740-4ad2-9e69-c527bbb2afb7-0 It's that simple. 105ed41c-7b9a-4612-a194-bef788c7de16-0 I now have a new database environment created instantly 105ed41c-7b9a-4612-a194-bef788c7de16-1 and with minimal storage consumption. 575847b4-ccfb-4ebb-954d-192e8348509d-0 That's it for the demo. f3dba27c-1fa2-44b2-8c84-42b20019815f-0 I think we're almost done in this inside and out video. 3f8ff617-8724-4f08-bd0f-2d4910697eef-0 We'll learn how F6 for on top Think learning helps you spin up 3f8ff617-8724-4f08-bd0f-2d4910697eef-1 new database environments in an inside and with minimal cost. d200b500-4e24-4fcf-b6ed-c653a2b566d0-0 We also saw how Blue XP Workload Factory helps you automate all d200b500-4e24-4fcf-b6ed-c653a2b566d0-1 this with the industry and vendor best practices. 51b7c786-547a-4d0b-b70b-edaf9e792e43-0 Check out our other F6 Front Up inside out videos to get an 51b7c786-547a-4d0b-b70b-edaf9e792e43-1 inside out view of the many things F6 Front Up has to offer 51b7c786-547a-4d0b-b70b-edaf9e792e43-2 your workloads. 854cab5d-259c-4650-a8af-b793795a70b5-0 See you there.