foreign[Music] hello and welcome to how NetApp accelerates VMware migration to Google Cloud today's webinar is sponsored by NetApp and produced by actual Tech media my name is Scott Becker I'm from actual Tech media and I'm excited to be your moderator for this special event now before we get to today's great content we do have a few housekeeping items that will help you get the most out of this sessionfirst off we want this to be an informative event for you so we encourage any questions in the questions box in our webinar control panel not only will we have team members responding to questions during the live event but we'll also have a dedicated q a session at the end of the presentation where we'll discuss in Greater detail some of the top questions that you ask that q a panel is also the place to let us know about any technical issue issues that you might be experiencing a browser refresh will fix most audio video and slide advancement issues but if that doesn't work just let us 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about me so my name is Carl Connor I'm a like I said product manager here um I've actually been at NetApp about 14 years I started off supporting Global customers maybe like yourself in fact Google was one of my first customers and now they're my key partner so there you goum so I did a customer I worked with global customers for a number of years then moved into product management I supported on tap together with VMware vsphere so driving our storage solutions together with VMware which gave me a great background for what I do today now I manage CVS our Cloud volume service for Google cloud and specifically working with Google on integration with gcbeand then even before that before coming to NetApp I was in many of your shoes I managed it operations whether it's working on servers network storage all that stuff all the headaches and challenges many of you probably have so let's go ahead and take a look at how you can use NetApp public cloud storage to accelerate your move to vsphere Cloud Solutions such as uh the Google VMware engineoh and I should say that I'm joined today by my partner at gcve that is Manish lohani he's going to be available to answer questions if you have them he'll be in chat and uh definitely can tackle any questions both about CVS as well as gcpe so here's the agenda and we're going to start off with just some basic introductions what are the two Services um andthen go into how our customers are using them how are you how they use them to accelerate their move by either implementing file sharing taking advantage of integrated data protection features of CVS Etc and it's really a true partnership you see those three logos there we spend a lot of time together whether it's GoogleCloud specifically uh the NetApp team as well as VMware we all spend a lot of time working together to bring the solution to you and speaking of the Google partnership we've actually been working together with Google on uh our Google Cloud integration almost three years ago you can see there in November 2019 when we started so almost three years we've had this service we started with a hardware-based service so if you know anything about NetApp you might know that we have uh engineered storage systems they support both Nas and sand protocols uh we put a lot of effort into them uh Spinning Disk all flash systems a great variety systems and westarted by offering Cloud volume service using those hardware-based systems one of the unique things we've done with Google is we implemented a software-based version of it CVS standard software and I'll talk a little bit about that in a moment that's where we actually took the same storage software and containerized it and run it on Google resources so uh that's pretty exciting that's unique to Google Cloud and over time we've expanded into more regions we're now in 26 different Google Cloud regions and we continue to add data protection features things like volume replication so if you have a volume in one Google region you can replicate it to another Google region uh backup integrated backup directly in the service for our software version We implemented cross Zone ha so that if some Zone failed we would automatically and seamlessly fail over to another Zone in that region and then most recently we added support for uh customer managed encryption Keys using KMS we always encrypt your data when it's stored in CVS but this gives you the option to wrap our encryption with your own encrypted keys so uh that's a cool feature that we added it's currently in preview with a hardware-based service hardware-based service hardware-based service and like I said I've been working with the gcve team for almost two years now to bring this combined solution to Marketso one of the interesting facts on how to service about our partnership I guess is that um our CEOs are brothers so you can see here a clip from uh thevideo this video is available on YouTube it's also available on NetApp TV our own uh TV channelum and you can find the link should work for you in the slides a slide deck that we put in handouts um Thomas Korean on the left is CEO of Google Cloud George Korean yeah um my CEO for NetApp on the right and um while they both follow different paths they are now working closely together and if you check out this video I don't know it's like three minute video they talk about our partnership and then they talk about the important customer value propositions you can see the high points that Thomas makes in the videoum pretty straightforward the interesting thing is on multi-cloud data management the last point he's actually referring to two things he refers to both the use of multiple cloud service providers so I think that was interesting that Google recognizes that customers have a large number of choices of service providers Google obviously one of thebest uh choices there but they acknowledge that there may be reasons to work with other service providers either specialty Regional providers or maybe another hyperscaler but he also talks about hybrid cloud and that's where I think this comes uh full circle with uh VMware is combining your on-premises environment together with that provided by the hyperscaler so I think that's pretty exciting so with that let me go on to kind of introducing Cloud volume service and so it's basically a managed file service like I said it's backed by either Hardware or software um it's managed file service we support protocols all the common Nas protocols NFS version 3 NFS four one sifs and or you know or something referred to as SMB uh and our customers use those for a variety of needs uh Windows File Services being a common one whether it's needed to share between applications or for user and Group sharesand then there are Enterprise applications and those could be hosted on Windows or Linux we see both for example sap we have a number of customers using CVS to host their uh application binaries so having those available highly available in the regions of their choice or other Erp or CRM systems uh web content we have customers hosting all their web content behind their web servers on CDs or even collaboration tools all these different applications many of them need to share files and CVS is a great solution for thatwe also have databases and databases such as Oracle or SQL Server now there's a lot of ways to run databases in the cloud or uh Google offers database services that they manage uh you can run it yourself in a VM you could run it in GCE or you could run it in gcve we actually have a technical report and if people are interested we have a technical report onrunning SQL Server uh on top of CVS in Google Cloud so if you're interested I can put that inuh chat later today but you can search for it just look for CVS SQL Server Google Cloud I think you'll find a link to tr what's the number 4898 and then uh even the more modern native Cloud applications so your kubernetes applications many of those need to Source uh store data and so we support persistent volume claims and that's one of the things we did with CVS software is support very small volumes currently we sort down to one gigabyte in size and that was designed to provide persistent storage for your containerized apps so a broad range ofapplication needs met with CVS and then we bring all the great uh data protection that netapp's been known for forever in fact this is what brought me to NetApp 14 years ago I was a customer before that and I just loved using snapshots I used snapshots to protect data locally to roll back after database serious we had serious database corruption uh in our Enterprise applicationum and then taking those snapshots and using them for Dr and backup and getting rid of tape I hated tape uh it was my Nemesis so um anyway uh I loved snapshot so much I came to NetApp in uh whatever it was 2009 and um uh and when we take those snapshots and you can use them in many different ways uh obviously data protection you can take a snapshot of a volume and it's going to be a crash consistent view because weknow all the files are closed because we're managing the file system so you can easily revert a volumeback to that snapshot you can also mount a snapshot and copy individual files in fact I'll show you a demo of that at the end of this session todaybut you can do other things with those snapshots you can make clones you can make volume clones this was something we actually originally developed with Oracle for their training centers where you could take a snapshot and make a read write volume uh out of that snapshot multiple volumes if you want so they used it to spin up training environments you can do the same thing for your application development and testingand then the real data protection which is making taking those snapshots and replicating them to another region so you have a copy in the event of uhany kind of problem in the region or for backup you can take snapshots and maintain multiple copies of those snapshots in a backup repository in our case we use uh Google Cloud Storage or GCS for that so a lot of different ways to take advantage of that now I mentioned we have two different service types so this kind of summarizes them there's a lot more detail in ourdocumentation onGoogle Cloud so if you need to just search for um uh you know uh Cloud volume service Google Cloud I'm sure you'll get a link to our documentation we have thing uh these are called service types so if you look for the tab service types you'll find more detailbut like I said CVS performance is our Hardware it's backed by NetApp engineered hardware systems we've been supporting them for over 25 years and we have a robust set of protocols and we're supporting them in this service so NFS V3 before one uh Kerberos all of that is supported as well as your windows SMB or sifs protocols we also support dual protocol access you can have one volume with access coming from Windows clients via SMB Linux clients via NFS we support simultaneous dual protocol access because these are highly available engineered systems deployed in pairs on the back end we're able to deliver a very high availability with the hardware and then we've also worked with Google to take advantage of their uh high performance High availability network connections to our systems so throughout the path we're able to deliver four nines of availability with our CVS performance service I talked about snapshots I've talked about using those snapshots for fast volume clones using them for volume replication and we have customers using them both for Dr protection I mean in the unlikely event that you would lose a region but also for um uh backup some customers prefer to use replication for backupum and then as I mentioned we're currently previewing our integration with Google KMS so this allows you to create your own keys and they could be uh Keys directly in the KMS server or you could tie KMS to uh on premises kmip orHardware uhsecurity module to further protect your data in an unlikely event that something would happen and thevolumes were exposed um uh to someone else and then on the right you see our CVS standard software service like I said this is the containerized version of ontap using Google resources we deploy using Google kubernetes we deploy using Google persistent disks and this is uh has been developed for about two years now we have NFS V3 support we're working on 4-1 support we have NFS SMB support so we cover the core Protocols of interest um andit's available in two different versions one is deployed in a single zone now the control plane runs in Regional resources so the control plane for CVS standard software is highly available even if a Zone were to go down it's available but the single zone version uses single zone storage resourceswe also offer Zone redundant uh version which uses Regional persistent disks so this is basically using uh highly performant uh replication in the Google Cloud environment on the Google PD resources to make sure that we can offer four nines of availability so Zone a single zone I think is 99.95 availability Zone redundant offers four nines 99.99 availability and is cross Zonewe have the same snapshot so very fast very storage efficient snapshots and that's a case whereyou'll see the storage efficiency because when you take a snapshot it really doesn't take any additional space to have that second image of the volume as you make changes we'll need to track those changes so it'll be uh increment but we don't need to keep all the other uh data that hasn't changed between the original and the snapshot so it's very storage efficient for you to take advantage of snapshotstoday we don't make clones from snapshots in CVS standard software so for that you'll need to use a backup we do have integrated backup and so you could backup to GCS and then rehydrate that into a new volume and we have some customers who are doing that today so those are the core features there's some other differences but I thought those were the main ones I wanted to kind of highlight today for you so let's see now oh yeah availability so we are available around the world I mentioned 26 different regions uh wegenerally support replication within a continent because that's where our customers want it they have data locality requirements and so we have replication within the us we have replication within Europe we have replication in APAC as well and so you can see the different dots the purple dots CVS performance the hardware-based service the blue dots CVS this the software-based service um I will know if you're really trying to look at the dots and figure out where they are I'll point out that um you'll see the upper right most dot in uh North America is for Montreal there will soon be another dot right next to it for Toronto it's not shown here on the map right now that's in preview but we expect to have that generally available in the next two weeks so if you're interested if you're a Canadian on the call and you're interested in using Canadian resources standby we should soon have that for your career use and here's a different way of looking at availability spelling out all the different regions where we're available andthis shows both where we have CVS as well as gcve so these are all the regions where they're available and this list combines both the hardware and software service for example the first one Asia South one is CVS software that's in Mumbai India uh what else Zurich is another software and then Sao Paulo in uh and Brazil is a another area where we have the software service availability the rest are all hardware-based service availability and we recommend using gcve and CVS in the same region that way there are no additional Network charges and you get the best performance so that's an introduction to CVS nowlet's turn to gcve and I got these slides from my friends at uh on the gcpe team so I will do my best to kind of give you kind of a summary of them and how they work uh best for you now the important thing about Google Cloud VMware engine is it runs the native VMware stack on Google cloud and it's on dedicated Hardware so the great thing about that is you get full access to vcenter you get access to NSX vsan hcx all those to manage and operate your VM environment so it's just like on-premises you just list and shift your environment to Google cloud and you get the best of VMware and the best of Google cloud in this kind of integrated uh Cloud experiencenow the best thing from my perspective because I told you I'm used to manage a lot of this stuff servers Network all that junk um Google manages the entire infrastructure for you so they maintain thenetworking the storage the compute everything required to run the service so you don't have to manage the hardware you don't have to deal with supply chain houses to get Hardware deploying it uh setting up networking you don't have to deal with the software you don't have to deal with the patching the maintaining you know of all the different tools like vcsaa um they do all that for you um and I don't know if I do but I'm happy to have somebody else handle those kind of headaches for me so I think that's a great feature Google provides an SLA of four nines within a single zoneand as you can see it's sold and supported by Google and it was developed by Google together with VMware the solution is fully certified by VMware so let's take a closer look oh so this is let's take a look at use cases so these are some common use case and the one I hear most about from customers is the one on the left it's where they've got a Data Center and they want to migrate it to the cloud they have events like a data center exit maybe a contracts expiring or you know one of their managers read a book and said we got to get in the cloud you know we got to get out of our on-premise data center into the cloud and um or maybe you just have a merger an acquisition and you say this is the time rather than continuing to figure out how we merge our data centers together let's go to the cloud and then there are customers that say we're going to keep on-prem but we're also going to add capacity we're going to add value with Google Cloud so that's another case that we see the one next to it DRM backup is kind of goes together with it we see the great thing about gcve is you can use a variety of different replication tools if you go into the gcve so pages onGoogle you'll see they list a number of different Dr backup replication tools and you can use this as a augment your on-premise environment you could have GCV in addition to your on-premises environment can give you maybe another firewall against ransomware or malware in your environment another place where you're protecting your data virtual desktops is the third one and I see that a lot we're working with a number of customers right now on vdi deployments using Google and there they take advantage of Google's leadership in privacy and performance and are able to leverage either horizon or Citrix most of my customers so far I think are mostly Citrix but either one is supported by uh Google and it's a great place to use CVS storage because you can use it either for your user profiles or if you're maintaining separate file shares like user shares or Group shares you can also use CVS for that and then some customers are combining this with Dr so they're basically saying we're going to keep our on-prem vdi but we're going to add uh gcbe vdi to either augment it or if there's a failure we can fail over there so there's some interesting hybrid use cases I see happening with virtual desktop plus Dr and then finally the promise of modernizing your applications a great way to start taking advantage of all this Google services for cloud native applications basically you move your apps and then start modernizing them once they're in the Google Cloud so a great opportunity to not only take advantage of your short-term needs but begin to modernize your applications so basically you can use gcve to meet your needs both of today and tomorrow you know the support of a wide variety of workload needs with kind of performant infrastructure you can take advantage I mean you have all those physical Hardware CPUs it's a dedicated environment you're not sharing it's not a multi-tenant environment you get gcd as a dedicated environment so you can use CPU over commit for your non-critical applications you can or applications that can tolerate high levels of over subscription like vdi you can further control your cost by bringing your existing licenses to the cloud whether it's application licenses database licenses uh I think even some VMware license you might be able to bring to uh the gcve cloud and you have this kind of hybrid approach you keep your legacy applications running why you expand your other applications to take advantage of native cloud servicesso with that you know it's really youknow you get dedicated isolated infrastructureyou get integrated storage with the option to extend it that's where my team comes in with Cloud volumes service you get really robust Hardware I think of all the hyperscalers that support VMware I think this is probably the most impressive in terms of uh RAM CPU storage it's just a great uh set you can look at the specs here you can see the you get a fully 100 Gig non-over subscribe fully redundant Network design and then like I said my favorite part full life cycle management of the VMware stack upgrades helping you with failures uh and it's fully Cloud integrated with all Google Cloud uh components so networking is integrated with uh the Google Cloud vpcs billing is integrated into Google billing identity management and Google I am and then support you can get support from Google and in fact that's how you get support for CVS Google provides uh level one support for cloud volume service so you can get all your service for this joint solution directly from Google Cloud support uh let's take one last look I think I got one more slide on GCV oh yeah so this is while the animation runs let me explain a little bit about this so like I said Google's not just running VMware on some hardware and giving you access you're getting a fully integrated Cloud experience with Google Innovations you get a VMware environment that's ready to use in minutes and that's what this little animation shows um I apologize it's kind of small but uhIwas kind of a quick example because basically you just go in here and you say I want to create a VMware private Cloud you click uh you know you pick how many nodes I think in what region that's about all you say and then in 30 to 60 Minutes you have it ready and I can say this is how it worked for us when we set up our first region to do our VMware certification together with Google and VMware it took about I don't know 45 minutes to deploy a new region and we were ready to go I can guarantee you it took me a lot longer to set up my esxi host and bring up uhvsphere on them when I set that up in the lab many years ago uh and you get the latest generation technology you get a latest generation CPU all flash nvme storage 100 Gig networking on dedicated isolated infrastructure with redundancy built in so bottom lines you get an on-premises style private Cloud experience but in the public cloud so with that let's take a time for a polling question so I've got a question here for you which is are you using Google Cloud VMware engine today so if you're that please go ahead and answer either yes no or is it something that you're planning to we'd love to get your inputs I think the this should be open for you to click on okaybecause I'm starting to see some responses I'll give you a little time I'll take a sip of water here foreign specifically about are you using a gcve uh today or have plans or um you see how the responses are still rolling in and give it a few more seconds I have one more question for you later on that's more specific but this is just kind of get a sense of how many people are using it or planning to so seems like we've got a pretty good mix um oh okay it's got one more response two more responses excellent thank you everybody for responding I hear my puppy knocking at the door hopefully he doesn't bark today um he wants to respond I'm sure but uh all right still getting responses let me go ahead and let'sclose the poll at this point because I think this is pretty good umso it looks like a lot of opportunity for you to consider using gcve right now 76 percent are not using it seven percent R and 15 considering it so I hope that we give you a little bit of information on how you might take advantage of gcve and uh also together with that considering using Cloud volume serviceso let's get into a little more of the technical uh aspects of this so here's the diagram on showing both gcve and CVS and how you make the connection so if you're familiar with Google Cloud you might know that they've got this concept of a virtual private clouds I mean it's typical of all hyperscalers right so at the bottom you see your customer project and this is where you would deploy Google resources things like traditional compute engine VMS or kubernetes engine containers or other Google services this could also be how you connect from Google Cloud into your on-premises environment so you can see an interconnect there kind of going back to the pink box with your on-premises environment now to begin using gcve the first thing you'll do you would do is be peering the gcve private Cloud so once you set up your gcve private Cloud if you want to connect it to your customer project maybe you have a jump Post in your customer project or you want access uh to your on-premises network you would peer it with your customer project and that's something you can do on your own same thing for CVS so say your VMware engine or I'm not in your room your compute engine or your kubernetes engine applications need storage you can set up a CVS volume and to do that you would peer your customer project with NetApp CVS and that creates this connection to the volumes uh in the NetApp tenant project so we Google calls these Tenon projects you'd have a gcpe tenant project and you'd have a CVS tenant projectum but there is no transitive routing so you cannot route we cannot connect from gcve to CVS through your customer project so to do that we need to peer the two back-end tenant projects so basically you'll make the connection from gcve to CVS uh the great thing about that it's pretty easy to do because you do it right in the GCV eui so here here's an example so I'm going into uh the window of gcve I'm selecting Network private connections you can see actually I have an existing one but if you said add private connection you'll get this menu I pick NetApp Cloud volumes I pick the region uh and then I specify the tenant project ID and the network connection and that's it that's about all you have to do to peer them so again to recap it's in the gcpe UI the big Network add a private connection you specify a little bit of information and then gcbe and then apps operations teams what we call site reliability engineering they will do the peering for you and our service level on this is two business days sometimes a little bit faster but it's good to know that because if you're going to need this quickly getting this done in advance is a good thing tocontinue consider so keep in mind that'swhat it takes to connect the two Services together so now looking at it why would you actually use them together why would you connect them together this um slide kind of covers that and the big one is about scaling storage having more storage than you get with your default number of gcpe nodes so I have customers that have very storage intensive needs uh Imaging repositories uh archives document archives I also work with a Telco that has these monitoring and logging applications that keep very large uh storage in the vmdks in the VM disk filesum one of them was like up to nine terabytes just one VM storage so that's a lot bigger when I used to size uh vsphere hosts and storage are typical we would say like 80 gigs as a typical VMS requirement but some of these really large VMS can take a lot of storage and we support up to 100 terabytes uh and you can have multiple volumes if you like and this allow allows you to scale your storage without having to add vs your nodes and it's just like gcpe it's a fully managed UI you don't have to manage the hardware you don't have to manage the software there's no patching basically just pick the through the menu say this is what I want um it'seasier to change things dynamically for example you can change performance we offer three levels of performance uh different levels of throughput for CVS performance so you can go from uh standard to Extreme Performance with just selecting a menu choice and boom it changes uh and then I said we have a wide choice of protocols if you have Windows VMS we've got SMB support if you've got Linux VMS we have NFS V3 or nfs41 and then all the data management capabilities I mentioned being able to take snapshots uh being able to uh clone you know andI can't think of a couple opportunities to clone you might want to clone a database to make a copy of it before you make changes you might want to clone an application binary volume maybe you keep all your application binder and you want to do that an application upgrade just take a quick clone of it do your testing on that if it works great you can actually promote that in the production or decide it didn't work destroy the Clone it's a very easy way to do some of your Dev test work without uh without destroying your production uh storage file system and then replication I talked about replication I did not mention that it's incredibly efficient so of course we can't bring the laws of physics so the initial replication initial Baseline we've got to take all the bits in region a and move the region B uh we haven't figured out a way to speed that up but once it's done we replicate very efficiently we replicate using a 4K block so we're only sending the changes from the source to the destination region so it's very efficient and that works out to be make it faster for you and also more cost effective andlike I said all this data protection happens on the storage side there's no use of the vsphere resources it won't impact your VM performance so that'sthe great thing about using this together with gcpe now when customers come and talk to us about public cloud storage they expect elasticity they expect basically a utility model right when you need more power you don't call up theyour utility company and say hey I need a couple more amps today you know can you set that up for me you just expect that it's going to be there for you and that's acommon expectation where everything is scales whether it's compute performance capacity um however it's not quite that simple um you know not everything scales uhand it can be limited in fact uh my project in Google cloud has uh quotas to limit a lot of resources uh and I think last time I looked I've got like 8 000 different quotas in my Google Cloud project so it's not uh super elastic many things are but let's take an example that's more realistic so this is looking at a gcve environment 108 cores so it's a three node GCB cluster you get 108 cores of compute 2300 gigabytes of memory and my estimate on storage usable storage is about 60 terabytes each node comes with 10 terabytes usable at two to one storage efficiency call it 20 terabytes so for the three nodes I combined UH 60 terabytes of usable storage but say you need more that's where CVS comes in so you need 300 and I told you about our customers that have um uh large databases they have monitoring and logging applications that's really easy to do withuh CDs you just add more storage without having to add more vsphere nodes so that's a great way to address those requirements and connecting it is relatively straightforward I mean it's just uh you'regoing to make the peering connection and we've supported this guest connection so connecting your GCVEVMS whether they're windows or Linux connecting them directly to cloud storage for some time now and our customers use them in a variety of ways I'm going to cover a couple use cases in a moment but let me first point out it's fully supported by all of us by Google NetApp and VMware it's documented this the screenshot you see on the right actually comes from Google documentation this is in the gcve documentation we support both service types so both CBS performance and CVS software volumes uh basically you create appearing like I showed you earlier and then you mount the volume just like you would Mount the volume in your you know your normal on-premises environment whether it's an NFS mount an SMB share Drive mapping it'sjust like you do using the standard guest OS tools and I listen to the use cases we've talked about data center exit file sharing databases uh home directory even a Dev test use case where you basically um take advantage of cloning and data protection to make your uhyou know toease your development processesso with that let me go to the second polling question we have today we're going to ask you a little more about what you are doing now or what you might do with VM guest access so it doesn't have to be something that you're doing right now today but if you were to use uh I guess Cloud VMware saying like uh gcpe um how would you use CVS what are your kind of your priorities so love to hear your thoughts and I okay great I see some responses rolling in is very helpful and while you do that take another sip of water thanks for continue to respond here I hope your day's going well um should be Friday for most of us uh unless you're uh Die Hard coming in from aipac late at night in which case I thank you for spending your evening with us um I guess for them it would be Saturday morning maybe so um I hope you have a great weekend otherwise let's see where we are we've got a good number of responses I give it a little more time let's see where we are we've got about 20 minutes left I've got a little more to show you we've got a demo to show you and once again my puppy wants to contribute I don't know if you're here embarking with it he wants to contribute to the survey but he doesn't get a chance to do so all right well I think that's done it actually pretty interesting mix and it'skind of what I would think um let me go ahead and show you the results so VM application file sharing seems to be the top one um in general but a large number of data center exit uh virtual desktop that's I was surprised on how many customers we have are looking at virtual desktop I think uhthe pandemic over the past couple years it caused people to revisit and say whatare we doing with virtual desktop how can we make it better for our customers and I see a lot you're not alone there are many uh organizations that are looking at how they can improve their virtual desktop environments I see uh Dev test as one of them and then uh database backups andsuch so that's great thank you very much for that I appreciate your responses on that so let me go through some common scenarios I'll give you a demo and then we'll wrap up so um we talked about data center exit um basically almost every data center today uses some sort of file sharing whether it's uh appliances like those from NetApp or Dell EMC or hpe or others almost everybody uses file sharing I remember you just make uh you have a Windows orLinux uh VM doing sharing um as that's pretty common and so this can be a great solution to help you replace those maybe even consolidate those so rather than having a bunch of different sharing Solutions in your data center you go to one solution with CVS you enhance it uh with some of our additional capabilities we have we've been doing this for 25 30 years we have a very robust uhwhat's called Nas in general but SMB NFS we have very robust protocol stacks for those and in general customers don't need to make much change maybe a little bit of light refactoring but they get the benefits of all they're sharing needs met they don't need to add additional vsphere nodes to get more storage they can take advantage of our integrated data protection it's a great solution or you might have already you might have dedicated VMS I remember talking to customers who were looking at NetApp uh in my prior roles and they were running Windows uh in a VM as file servers and I thought wow how painful I remember doing that a long time ago because not only managing a Windows VM you also have to handle all the patching and upgrades and all that stuff it just it's so much better to have an appliance that was one of the first things I did uh probably mid 2000s when uh I can't remember what was it manifest so far as iSCSI orit was still SMB but wemoved to begin using uh networks uh NetApp systems or network Appliance back then to support our uh our Windows file sharing needs or Linux uh I had a team even though we had already switched to SMB and windows I had a team that was wanted to build their own appliance using Linux and so I supported my you know your engineers go ahead and build itworked pretty well but it failed a couple times and every time it would fail we would have all the company's engineering managers on the phone to me saying Hey when's it going to be back up so after I think two of those failures they said fine we'll move that to NetApp too so we moved all our Linux file shares to NetApp as well so really not only simplifies your management highly available and again offloads your needs uh from your vsan requirementsand then database operations I talked about how you can use cloud storage space rather than uh guest VM disk space to maintain your logs backups and we have several customers using that let me show you uh two use cases these are two success stories we have uh the first one is an oracle success story there's a tech company that was using Oracle uh I think it was Oracle on Windows and they started off doing their Oracle backups to the vsan stores that was in gcpe but they were using a lot of storage it was like I think there was like initially 60 terabytes and it grew to 70 80 terabytes and they said that's really expensive storagelet's and for especially for a backup so they mounted CVS and they are now using our man to dump those backups directly into a CVS volume and they added additional data protection by replicating that backup dump to a second region so they enhanced their data protection and uh reduce their costs by reducing the number of Visa or nodes they needed just for storage so the great solution for this technology company we have another technology company actually system integrator that did a similar thing with SQL server but their challenge was they were doing a data center exit they had a really tight timeline and when they looked at all the applications across their environment they said hey we've got some use of shares and we need something in the Google Cloud environment that would allow us tobasically bring these smv shares up and so they turned to CVS and in fact they had various a number of SQL Server instances that used SMB shares kind of the same way either for logs or for backups so this solved their problem and allowed them to complete their migration meet their very limited time frame to get out of their Data Center and into Google Cloud and then they took advantage of volume replication to also meet their Dr requirements so it's a great solution for them uh and it obviously management was happy the team was happy because they were able to uh get out of the data center on time so that I've got one last little demo and it's gonna it will go through it uh it's a live uh it's actual recording because uh there's a lot of pieces in this you'll see how we go from CVS to gcve to the actual VM Etc so let me go ahead and start that and so Jesus this is the cloud volume service user interface is in Google Cloud console and here we're creating a volume we pick a region for the volume we're going to scroll down we're going to give it aname in the volume details uh the name and the path to mount it we're going to pick a size a minimum size one terabyte uh we pick SMB and this snapshot option remember that because we're gonna this is going to come back later we picked the VPC that this is going to be connected to their snapshot policy if we wanted we click save now if this is your first volume in a region it takes a couple minutes for us to spin it up so we sped this up if it's your second or subsequent volumes they're created almost instantly but in this case I think it was like about three minutes to create this first volume with that is done we go to the menu and we have this thing called Mount instructions this tells you the path that you'll use to mount it so now we go into gcve into thevsphere client we're going to launch a browser so now we're actually connected to that Windows VMfirst we're going to take a look at that oh we're going to have to First Mount it right so we're going to map the network drive we're going to paste in that path that we got from the mount instructions and we're going to mount that as Drive Z so now you see we've mounted it it's Drive Z let's take a look at the properties of that drive we're going to click the properties Tab and you take a look at it you'll see it's one terabyte in size so there's our volume uh one terabyte and we're looking at the volume right now so let's go ahead and create a file we're going to create I want just a notepad text file just to have something to play with here now we're going to go back into the cloud volume service interface and we're going to take a snapshot now we're taking a manual snapshot here you could do an automatic snapshot you can set them up to happen every hour you can have them every day whatever you want but here we're going to take a manual one because that's much better for this demo we're going to go back here now there's our file and just like users do we're going to inadvertently delete that file and go oh I need to get that file back so there's a couple ways you can do it the easiest way and your users could do this they go into the drive properties click on previous versions and they mount that snapshot as another view of that volume so now they can see the snapshot volume and then drag and drop into the current volume so that's the easiest way to recover it there's other ways you can do like I said you could revert the entire volume if you wanted uh or and if you're a command line junkie there is actually a snapshot directory at the root of the drivethey can go into that snapshot directory they'll see all the date and times of previous snapshots and they can manually copy files out of that and it's the same thing for Linux uh in the NFS uh directory tree you will also see a snapshot directory and you can go into that and recover files individually or revert the entire uh volume from the snapshot so it's pretty cool and let me recap kind of just what we saw here so we created the SMB volume we did that with the cloud volume service UI we also support a rest API so it's you can use the Google Cloud console UI you can use rest API both work fine we mapped a drive in the windows VM to CVS we created a file took a snapshot we deleted the file and uh we used previous versions in the drive properties to show the snapshot and then drag and drop so it's pretty cool easy way to uh to manage your storage and um and uhtake advantage of CVS with gcpeso basically we're giving you a safe solution we give you integrated data protectionfull support of this combined Solution by VMware by Google and NetApp that lets you quickly and cost effectively move your vsphere environment to the cloud so with that I've got some links here on some additional information on the left is a link to a landing page that we have so you can get more information the QR code on the left should take you to thatlink and there's some additional links you'll see them in the slides that I posted uh a Blog I posted recently on uh gcve guest VM migration uh document I think it's a one pager onreasons why these are a great solution and then if you want more information we're ready to talk to you answer your questions whatever you want um and that's the link on the right hand side it's a form to fill out to get in contact with one of our Specialists uh the QR code on the right we'll take you to that as well so two different ways you can look in the slides you can type in the link if you want it's actually three different ways or the QR code so with that um I'm ready to see if there are any questions hey there's Scott so cool um yeah Carl great presentation and I appreciate the demos too we do have some questions here um first one are there any additional charges to use gcve with CVS volumes no not really that's a great thing like I said as long as you make sure you deploy in the same region it's really just the cost of your gcve private cluster and the cost of your um your uh you know CBS volumes there's no additional charges for integrating them or using them together okay super you know there's sort of a related question from NED who's wondering about licensing says my organization already has Enterprise licenses with VMware NetApp and Google Cloud separately um can they all be combined into one license how do people handle licensing on those sorts of scenarios well for CBS yes I don't think there'd be a change um there are some options if you're a current NetApp customer to work with your account team onum you know kind of opportunities toI guess include some CDs services in your current uhagreements for VMware engine I'm going to defer to um a niche I don't know if he's available uh in terms of bringing those VMware engine uh licenses into VMware engine okay he is well maybe what we'll do is uh let's move on to another question and then ifManish uh yeah he says that is allowed vmcu allows uh bringing the licenses into uh the gcpe environment so you can use your the bring your value from uh on-prem into gcve that's a good thing to bring up with your VMware rep in fact even at NetApp we have VMware account team and they were just talking to us about the benefits of moving the cloud I said yeah I know all about it um but yeah so talk to your VMwarerep and or your Google rep okay cool um next question what sort of performance should we expect between gcpe VMS and CVS volumes we've done a lot of testing of that uh the one thing I would encourage you is um and forguest mounts you're probably going to do this anyway is use uh consider multiple volumes because each volume there is there are certain uh limits in network connection throughput but uh in our testing we got up to 200 000 iops and we got uh the full throughput that CVS supports now on a highest service level uh the larger volumes we go up to 4 500 umuhum gigabytes per second so um uh the full throughput of CVS is supported on uh gcve with CVS okayall right super um another question uh came in from Paul andI think it came in before your demo so I apologize ifyou covered this there but Paul asked what kind of NetApp storage options are available to gcve implementations uh and specifically are there guest connected options absolutely and that'sexactly what I demoed was that uh guest connect optionumsoumyeah so we support both uh guest connection uh we're looking at other options tobetter enhance your storage support it's definitely something to reach out to your Google team to see if there are other things that we can help you withCVS storage together with gcde but our current Focus today and what we've documented and fully support is connecting your gcpe guests to CVS okay great um next question here comes uh also from NED but this is NetApp and our environment provided the necessary encryption for data at rest does Google Cloud now manage that responsibility and what about data and Transit you know what happens with encryption there and sort of this layered solution yeah so there are a number of options that you can use for encryption there are protocols that support encryption We have basically uh our connection from gcve to CVS goes over Google owned and Google secured uh physical links so it never goes outside of Google's control many of those links are do use encryption physical encryption uh other ones are physically secured links for example they're in aaccess controlled environment so uh we can if you have uhspecial needs in that we'd be happy to talk to you about those but there's a high level of security available today uh for those connectionsokay all right super um another question here how's the joint gcpe uh CVS Solutions supported it's supported like I said it's supported by uh Google cool Cloud support so you can get support on both CVS and gcve and uh theso tses can uh bring the two teams together if needed uh directly through Google Cloud support so we we're available I mean NetApp is available as a resource to Google Cloud support as well as uhthegcpe uh engineering team all through one contact point okay super um well Carl it looks like we'rerunning up on time here but you know I did I guess the last thing I wanted to ask was just you know if somebody wants to get started with NetApp um you know you've put some resources up here is there a particularly you know good thing that you'd recommend for you know just getting started well I'd say reach out to me but I'mnot a great reason so I'd say use the Forum on the screen um you know people want to reach out to me you're welcome to but it's really better we have a whole team of resources that are available around the world to help you get started answer your questions no pressure you know if you just want to get some questions answered feel free to reach out to us um chat with us and we'll see if we can help you with your uh your it needs especially with vsphere and VMware engineokay all right fantastic well Carl thank you so much for putting together this presentation this has been great really appreciate the answers in the Q a as well uh thanks for the update yeah thanks everyone for joining uh just really appreciate your time today and by the way I think I might have misspoke when I said the uh throughput I always get my math it's 4 500 megabytes per second or 4.5 gigabytes per second so I might have misspoke there I get excited so I really appreciate your time everyone thank you okay well thanks again Carl and before we wrap up we do have one more piece of business it's the 300 Amazon gift card prize drawing in the winner today is Amber welpley from Texas so congratulations to Amber we'll be in touch about uh getting you your card and with that on behalf the actual Tech media team I want to thank NetApp for making this event possible and thanks is always for attending and for all your great questions here in the Q a portion uh that concludes today's event have a great rest of your day and a great weekend [Music] thank you