Hello, my name is Chris Fox. I'm a systems engineer here at NetApp and I appreciate you joining me for this recorded session of the NetApp Insight 1546-1presentation of how to manage your onremise storage with NetApp Blue XP. Let me go ahead and share out my system so that you can see our presentation andwe'll start off with the confidentiality notice. This is a standard screen that you should see in just about every presentation. Um you can read the disclaimer but basically it says that there may be some topics that we cover that are subject to future change. So what are we going to cover in this session which is going to be lasting about 20 minutes? Well, first off, we're going to talk about how the rapid increase in data and the complexity of managing that is causing challenges for the customers that we support. Um, and what we've done at NetApp is develop a management plane that unifies several of our tool sets together as well as gives visibility for your onremise systems, not just the FAZ, but also the storage grid and E-series. And then it also expands into the cloud if that's something that you're looking at as a next step in the future. So we'll talk about what Blue XP is. Uh we'll cover a couple slides to talk about how it can manage your on-remise storage, but most of the uh presentation will be a live demo where I go into the tool set and we can actually see how the different functionalities and features can be used and then we'll wrap it up with a nice conclusion. So please uh sit back and enjoy the presentation. So, Blue XP uh it is a uh interface that you can reach by logging into bluxp.netapp.com.From there, you can launch into the browser and you can see a example of that uh browser screen in the uh right hand side of the slide and we'll go into the actual presentation in a second where we'llwalk around through there. So, I'm not going to talk too much about what the slide looks like since we'll go into it. But what we're doing with this is providing a software as a service interface that you can log into very easily. You don't have to manage any VMs, you don't have to deploy anything, and it doesn't cost anything. And from there you can get a variety of information reports that are either um tools that we've aggregated together from previous tools that you're probably very familiar with as well as some net new tools based on the information we're collecting. Um you do have the option with Blue XP to deploy it on a VM that you manage whether that's in the cloud or in a on premise environment. It could even be in a DMZ. So there's a variety of options. Um, but those will be more advanced topics that would be covered uh with a system engineer or sales staff directly as a follow-up meeting. So from this screen, what you're able to see is uh [clears throat] the quick view of an interface showing a variety of uh entities. Each of these clouds represents either an HA pair or it could be a single node um of either on premise storage from NetApp uh the ONAP Faz system we have storage grid we have E-series that can be vis um viewed and um and you can see the relationship here as well as several of the cloud entities and what I mean by that is NetApp does run its ONTAP faz system as a cloud volumes ontap um operating system that you can uh install and run in either AWS,Google or Microsoft Azure. Also, all three of those have their own firstparty product that they've um sell directly that is based on netup technology. So, in uh Amazon's case, that's the FSX for ONTP. We also have a Google for NetApp files and then there's the Azure NetApp files that are based on NetUP technology but you would procure directly from them which could come into play when you're looking at billing cycles but all of that is cloud. We're going to focus really on the bottom left uh side where we're talking about onremise systems. So what does um Blue XP provide? Well, it integrates a variety of tool sets that aren't just storage management. You also have security and protection views. You have governance and administration views and classification of data. We also can provide interfaces and readonly views to a variety of tool sets uh for people outside of the storage arena. So, it does bring together a lot of different tool sets that can help um a group of people, not just the storage administration people that typically work with the NetApp interface. Uh including the finance team, we have adigital wallet portion that I'll show briefly that can show all your on-remise licensing and that can be important if you're looking at renewal dates and verifying that you have the proper licensing uh procured as you look at storage growth. Okay, I'm going to go in and actually showa live demo portion of our system. So, you'll see here I have a similar Blue XP interface to the screenshot that we had in the slide deck. Um, but this will be interactive. From here I can actually select a an onremise system and we can open it up and you'll see that I can quickly look at some um highlighted information you know the storage the volumes do I have any taring of data going on how many replication systems do I have as well as key things like my serial number system ID um any licensing that would be there what's nice about this view is I can go in and look at my volumes I can manage my volumes from here. I could add a volume, I could delete a volume, or I can make a change. Um, so this is allowing you to manage the system directly with a GUI interface. We also have the ability to go to an advanced view here. And with the advanced view, for those people have worked with ONTAP before, this will be very familiar. This is our um system manager interface where you can get all the data that you would have if you logged into system manager directly. So I can look at my capacity, some performance data, um I can review storage virtual machines, Q trees, all of that is presented from this interface.I want to go back just switch back to my standard view and I can go back to my system.So let's go in to the starting point which was called the canvas. And how do I actually get these cloud entities to appear here? Well, I can go to my estate and if I've [clears throat] logged into Blue XP with my account information for NetApp support, I can automatically discover systems that my NetApp support account has access to. They can be uh systems for, you know, a variety of different entities. and we're adding more and more as we go forward. Um, anything that's on um, tap 912 or newer will be discoverable here. If you can't see it here, we do have the ability to discover on premise systems and like storage grid and eeries by using uh, an entity called the connector. The connector acts as a networking gateway routing firewall combination to provide access from blue XP out to wherever your on-remise systems would be reachable. It also applies a variety of permissions that we would use for things like we're doing backup of your systems and you're going to have that backup land in an S3 or object bucket. it would be able to have the permission to provision those or if you're tearing to um a system here that uh would require provisioning of an object storage as an example that uh connector also provides the permissions. So it's a very important part but you're not required to have that to get started. Okay, started. Okay, started. Okay, as an example, if I want to add to my working environment, and we're going to focus onpremise for this portion, you can see I can go into the other options, but I can discover any existing onremise systems that I have either connector uh access to, including uh VMR virtual center um or like I said are in the support um system that we already have discovered. So all I have to do is put in the IP address of the system that I want to discover, put in my credentials and hit discover. Here we get quick feedback and we'll have now a new entity in our list of on-remise systems. on-remise systems. on-remise systems. If I wanted to take this on premise system and create a relationship to either another on-remise system, I could quickly drag and drop. That's one of the nice functionalities of this Kodi. Uh, and it's contextsensitive. So based on linking two on-remise systems, I could do stamp mirror replication. I could start up our copy and sync heterogeneous tool for replication or I could do volume caching. Um, same thing if I'm going to an ONAP system if it's in the cloud.But if I was going to say a storage grid system, it would show backup and recovery and taring as options because that can provide um object storage for those um options. So let me go ahead and I'm going to start a replication and this is a common task that you'll do and we can basically walk through a wizard to set up a snap mirror relationship. So I'll select my volume. I'll choose where I want it to go. I can choose the aggregate. I can do throttling if I need to. I can set up a policy and see all policies that have already been defined in the system. So in this case, we'll just mirror it. How often do I want that replication to go through? It verifies the data and then I can hit go. And now back on my main screen, I have a new replication relationship showing that it's coming from this on-remise system to this on-remise system.Okay.Some other things we can do here. Uh we can look at migration reports and migration reports can show me details about my volumes. The intention being if I'm going to move my volume, it might be important to know a lot of data about that for performance and sizing and if I'm going to do replication, some of the data as far as like how many files are present, uh how many directories are present may be important for factoring in the migration time.So the migration report can analyze a variety of volumes. In here I can see the total number of files, the directories, the average scatteragramgram of uh what my file sizes are, typical access time and how often these files are accessed and then uh if there's anything else like directory structure that we'd want to look at. So this can be very important when you're migrating on premise to on premise or on premise to say the cloud. Anothertool that we have here, I have my digital advisor. And a lot of these um sections in the toolbar to the left, the menu are not NetApp named products. You'll see they're uh organized more by functionality. So you don't have to necessarily know this is active IQ to get to it. You could say I'm interested in the health of my systems and the digital advisor will open up and yes, this is active IQ. But once again, I have the ability to look through Active IQ. I can see all my system data. I can look at, say, things like storage efficienciesand see where I'm getting my storage efficiencies. Also important information, if I'm moving on to ONAP, I want to make sure I have these same efficiencies that I'm planning. If I was moving to a system that doesn't have these same efficiency options like snap mirrors, snapshots, the flex cloning, compaction, compression, dduplication, um I would have to factor in an increase in storage at my destination point because I would be losing the storage efficiencies.So the snap mirror in tool uh can be reflected here as I'm doing the migration like we showed and digital advisor migration reports can be important for me to figure out uh information before I start that relationship. So I can tell say a boss it's going to take us you know a couple weeks to move x amount of data from site one to site two. Some other things I can do here is uh we can look at our sustainability reporting for on premise systems. Sometimes you might be challenged to say what is our carbon footprint or how much energy are we utilizing for those systems. This is a way for you to quickly get a report and we um give you a sustainability score as far as how efficiently are you using the systems with recommendations on how you can increase your efficiency usage of the systems by utilizing things like um dduplication or compaction or compression. Um if it's appropriate that would be something that might be useful. But I see this often in customers that have uh especially European branch offices um and it's becoming part of annual reports from more and more corporations where they're trying to be good stewards of the environment. So their sustainability score here might be something very useful and it's usually challenging for an IT group to come up with this information without a tool set like this. On top of this, we have things like our classification that can analyze my on premise systems. And this is where we can change our relationship a little bit. Instead of just storing and providing best of breed performance for your storage as well as um ensuring that you have no data loss, we can look at now what's happening in the files and in the databases if you give us permission and help you to classify importance of files from you know vulnerability standpoint or criticality of data that might be uh something you are sensitive to as well as being able to quickly clean up an environment. how much data hasn't been accessed for a while, how much uh data may be duplicated, and you want to um free up that space. So, classification is now one of the first feebased tools that I've shown you. This would cost um additional as you would choose to license it if you want to have this functionality, but it is a key feature if I'm trying to figure out what's in my environment. And um yeah, this might be something you're looking at a product today for. NetApp is able to provide this. Okay, let's go back into the presentation.And I just want to reiterate the fact that we did show system manager, the health advisor, which is active IQ. Um, you can also access your support site and uh review support cases or create a support case and track that. So there's a lot of information you can get here from within the system. One tool that uh we would like to cover as well is the digital wallet. So, if I go here to digital wallet, this is where I can look at a variety of licenses as they're categorized, whether they're on premise through the Keystone uh licensing agreement um subscriptions that you have with our various tool sets. So, this might be useful for you if you're trying to review uh from a financial point of view or from your operations point of view where you're at in your usage of NetApp products. Okay.So what are some of the key takeaways that I can have from this presentation andthank you very much for taking the time to allow me to present the blue XP overview. Um first off uh your prem your data is focused onpremise for this presentation but you can see a lot of the tool set is enabling you if you ever had to reach out and use cloud resources the same interface can be used for both. So, lot of value for managing your on-remise systems today, but something that you want to make sure you go to. Um, backup strategies, being able to utilize 321 backups, wherever you're going to put that, and that's why I left that kind of open-ended. Um, where do you want to put your data? Do you want to put it um on a on tap system running S3 protocol? Do you want to put that on storage grid? Uh, wherever you want to put that backup data. And if it's in the cloud, we also have the tool set to do that. And finally, um, where we have automation, all of the tool sets that we showed you can be accessed through REST APIs. So you can use things like Ansible and Terraform for efficient use of the product and being able to take advantage of automation that may allow you to scale your utilization of your storage uses uh, resources very uh, easily. There are some other related sessions that I'd recommend you check out in therecorded sessions. Um, you can see a list here. You can also get more data from our BluXP website. Um, either at netapp.com or the blue xp.netup.com. You can get to it from a variety of ways. I think even blue xppp.com will get you to that.And then, um, other ways to stay connected. Um, my name is Chris Fox. If you do have a question or would like to follow up with an email, my email is listed here at chris.foxnetup.com and I really appreciate the opportunity to um to present and uh be able to cover some of this information. So going forward,just want to thank you very much for your time and hope you have a great day. Thank you and let me go ahead and stop the session.