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Hello, I'm here to talk about FSX for ONTAP, a shared storage service in AWS cloud with the popular data access and management capabilities of NetApp's ONTAP storage systems. I'll be taking you through a demo showing you how to configure an FSX for ONTAP file system and mount an NFS data store with VMware cloud in AWS. So, let's get going on our journey and jump right into it. With FSX for ONTAP, storage capacity is now decoupled from compute in VMware cloud. You can easily add just the amount of storage you need at any given time. It includes all of the popular features of NetApp's ontap storage systems such as storage efficiencies, protection, and performance. For customers running VMware vSphere or cloud foundation on premises, there is seamless integration with VMware cloud for manageability and data migration with features such as HCX. Similarly, NetApp ONTAP systems running on prem integrate with FSX for ONTAP on AWS using SnapCenter and Snapmir for data protection and disaster recovery. Looking at the architecture of our demo, you can see FSX for ONTAP residing in two high availability zones and communicating to our VMC softwaredefined data center through VMware transit connect. FSX for ONTAP provides supplemental storage for the VMware cloud SDDDC with data stores residing on NFS volumes. It's very easy to migrate workloads to data stores on FSX for ONAP. From our vsenter console, we'll right click on our VM and select migrate. Choose only to change the storage location. Select the correct data store. Verify and finish. It's really that simple to migrate your workloads. But let's take a step back and show the configuration steps to create an FSX for ONAP file system and mount a data store to VMware cloud. To provision FSX for ONAP in the designated VBC, we'll get started in the AWS console by selecting FSX from services and then Amazon FSX for NetApp ONTAP. In the create file system wizard, select standard create and fill out the file system name and SSD storage capacity. Next, we select the VPC in which to create our FSX file system along with all other required network and security details. Then we fill out the storage virtual machine name. This is a container to host a set of volumes and details for the first volume to be created.Finally, some details for snapshot backups and select next. Review the configuration on the summary page and then click on the create file system button to begin the creation process. This next section covers how to create an SDDDC group and connect our VPC to allow communication between FSX and our VMware cloud softwaredefined data center. We're in VMware Cloud Console. Provide a name for the SDDDC group and the STDC's to be included and then create the group. The next step is to add our external VPC to the group. First associate the SDDDC group with your AWS account by adding the correct AWS account ID. Then go to resource access manager and accept the resource share. Next, we'll go to VPC under services and create a transit gateway attachment to enable communication between our VPC with FSX and our newly created SDDDC group. Create a name. Select the transit gateway ID and the VPC to attach to the transit gateway. Click on create transit gateway attachment. Back in our SDDDC group, we need to go to the transit gateway attachment that is pending acceptance and click accept to associate them.Finally, we'll add the appropriate network routes to the attachment. We can see that everything looks good. We're now ready to attach a data store to the SDDDC cluster. In VMC console, we can go to storage and attach data store. We can see that we need the IP address of the NFS server. So we'll navigate to the FSX file system and retrieve that information. Enter the IP address, validate, and then select the export path of the volume. Fill out the storage vendor and name and then click on attach data store. We can now verify that our new NFS data store is available and ready for use. That about wraps up this video demonstration of FSX for ONAP with VMC. If you're looking for more content related to NetApp Hybrid Cloud with VMware, you can learn more here with NetApp VMware Solutions. Thanks for watching.
Understand customer value and deployment steps when using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a supplemental datastore with VMware Cloud on AWS.