Hi, so thank you everyone for joining us in this session. Uh my name is Gaddy Owen. I'm uh with a product uh team at Netup. I have with me also Yuval Calderon uh that works as a cloud solution architect also with NetUP and Andy Kaj from AWS with the product team of FSX. So um today went to the wrong so our agenda for today is to cover really uh top interesting use cases for FSX. We'll start by speaking a little bit about the partnership between AWS and NetUP. Um we will cover some of the integrations and how theycame to be and um uh the majority of the time we'll spend talking about uh top use cases. Uh and we'll touch also uh on uhthe new blue XP that's launching and have even uh a little demo for you. So a few words uh about NetUP. Uh Netup is a Fortune 500 uh company. Um it's a global cloud centric a data software datacentric uh software company. Uh we have about 11,000 uhemployees um and uh founded literally uh 30 years ago. And uh the interesting point um to mention here is that we have uh a really thrivingnetwork of four over 4,000 partners uh that's really helping our customers to be successful. Um the company started uh from the uh software uh domain and uh we had leading uhfrom the from the storage domain and we had leading uhhardware for many years. In the recent years, we have u re uh implemented and uh reinvented the company as a uh leading uh cloud data services uh company. And uhwe we're actually expanding from uh just uh a storage company to also um doing other things like uh computer uh compute services and other areas through uh organic growth and through uh mergers and acquisitions. Uh some of you may have heard about the spot acquisition and uhother companies that we are uh purchasing.So um let's talk a little bit about the journey. Um the journey that uhofNetUP and AWS as a partnership. So the first time that we partnered with AWS was uh around 2012 where we started working in the cloud. Um it's worth mentioning that in 2014 uh we had the first uh cloud volume uhthecloud uh volume offering that came out to the cloud. At that time it was more of a self-managed uh storage which was completely detached from the uh hardware where it started. Um fast forward around uhwe had manyuhnotes and many and uh um innovations that were taken to the market. Around the end of 2020, we have signed an agreement with AWS to take our technologies and package them into a uh service that will become later um FSX for on top. uh we launched the product in uhSeptember of 2021 and uh it'sreally uh taking off uh very well. Um atthat point it would be really interesting to hand off to Andy that will talk a little bit about you know what was uh the point of view of AWS going into this uh partnership. >> Thank you. >> Hey everyone. Um as Gotti mentioned, my name is Andy Crud. I lead the product management team for the FSX onap service on the AWS side. Uh and uh you know want to give you some background about whywe launched the service and you know whatit comes down to at the end of the day is um we see file workloads unstructured data pervasively when we whenever we talk to customers. Um there's a lot of data out there, a lot of workloads out there that rely on shared file storage. And not only is this market huge and it's growing over time as well. Uh and we're seeing customers commonly use file storage to power some of their most business critical applications. And um as part of you know a lot of customers that we talked to historically have been on prem and are looking to migrate or extend or burst their workloads, their applications, their data to the cloud. And you know what we've seen is that if you look at you know on premises there'sa lot of different file storage offerings out there options that customers choose. And one of the most popular ones is on tap. Um and you know many of you here I'm sure are familiar with ONTAP uh and therich data management capabilities that it provides you all the snap mirrors snapshots cloning capabilities that you all and Gotti are going to talk about a little bit later um the performance profiles you know the low latency the high IOPS that it delivers as well as the reliability the high availability durability security that itprovides and for customers to migrate over to the cloud um for a lot of customers they don't want to have to rearchitect completely upend their storage solution as part of making that jump to the cloud. And so with FSX on tap, what our goal isto provide customers with the capabilities, you know, if you're an existing NetApp customer to provide a familiar experience where you have a stored solution that offers all the best that ONAP has to offer in terms of data management features and capabilities. Um and also for customers who aren't using ONTAP today again to provide those same rich features um in a simple agile cloud consumption model as an Amazon service. So our goal really with this service is toprovide the best of both worlds. the capabilities that ONTAP provides with the simplicity, agility, um, peace of mind, low TCO that customers have come to love about AWS native services and really to bridge these two worlds together to give customers the value of these two uh, capabilities. So, um, you know, I'mexcited to share we actually we've been iterating on this service since we launched it. As Gotti mentioned, we launched the service in September 2021. uh it's just over a year old and uh we're excited to have uh launched I think it's you know nearly 20 capabilities between now between launch and now um I'm excited to announce a few capabilities that we launched just this week at reinvent um some of these are new performance enhancements for the service so um one uh capability is just this week we've doubled the maximum performance that fsx for ONTP delivers um previously you could provision a file system with up to 2 GBtes per second of throughput capacity and this week we've just doubled that to 4 GB per second of throughput capacity and correspondingly have also doubled the amount of IOPS that you can provision. Similarly, when we first launched the service, we offered a multi-AZ deployment option. This is a deployment option where your data is replicated and highly available across multiple AWS availability zones. And with that, we offered an NVME read cache or flash cache that delivers even lower latencies for actively read data and higher IOPS. We're excited this week to also be announcing that we're extending this NVMe read cache capability to our single offering as well. U this allows customers especially with um IOPS heavy and read heavy workloads like databases and electron design automation to drive up to six gigabytes per second of throughput and hundreds of thousands of IOPS. Um you know two really exciting capabilities that are going to significantly raise the bar for customers in terms of how much performance they can drive and how much work and how much value they can drive from their data. We've also announced a few capabilities to make it even easier to use the service. I won't go into too many details with these, but um first is um we've actually launched a new capability with our multi-e deployment option where you can now access new file systems you create from onrem without needing to configure any additional routing. Um, you know, long story short, whenwe launched the service, uh, when you created a multi-z file system, you need to go into your route tables and transit gateways and add one extra route routing rule to access your data. Uh, and that's no longer required. We we've heard customer feedback and, uh, you know, customers are always looking for ways to simplify their deployments. And so, uh, we launched a new capability just this past week that makes it even easier for you to access your data using a transit gateway from onrem without needing to actually configure any additional routing or any additional firewall rules.We also now offer for new file systems nitrobas based encryption and transit. This is a capability AWS launched a few years back that basically offers encryption between supported EC2 instance types and your file systems uh without needing to set up u or manage encryption. And we've always supported kerros based encryption for NFS and SMB traffic. Uh and thisoption delivers two real value propositions. One is you get encryption automatically. There's no setup required. you don't need to join an identity store to get encryption. And the second is it comes with zero performance impact. It's built in to the hardware um so that you can get encryption meet your compliance needs without really needing to do any additional work. Lastly, we've launched a whole suite of additional capabilities in our API and console. For example, we um now you can create data protection volumes uh through the FSX console. You can configure volume snapshot policies. Um, you know, and there's a long list of capabilities we've launched and but our goal is with this week's launches as well as over time, we're always looking to raise the bar on several dimensions including performance, including usability and simplicity, just making it even easier for customers to manage their data in the cloud. So with that uh again I wanted to give a quick introduction to the FSX on service share kind of the AWS perspective that led to us launching the service and at this point I want to um uh pass the mic along to Gotti and Yuvall who are going to be double clicking on some of the top use cases we're seeing with the service and some of the ways in which customers are driving a lot of value and aredelivering even more performance using the service. Thank you Andy. That was in insightful. H So I wanted to go over a few of the use cases that we'll uh demonstrate. Um trying to make it a bit easier because there's a lot of data. Um we also marked the slide so you guys can follow along. H essentially the use cases that we wanted to highlight is uh first of all our VMware announcement and how you can essentiallycreate uh flexibility and uh reduce your TCO with uh with VMC and FSX. How you can use FSX to extend or migrate uh data from on premise into AWS. What does FSX mean for SAP HANA and how it can help you achieve a much better operating model and help your organization work a lot better and similarly how it can also optimize MSSQL and Oracle deployment and what we can do in that area and finally going through how um FSX has a unique offering regarding Kubernetes whether it's Rosa EKS and we can uh help you guys achieve a lot more with those uh workload and finishing off with ademo around blue XP and the capabilities we offer from the control plane. >> So I'll start with VMware. So essentially um it's always good to start with the best thing. Um if you need a shared storage for VMware cloud essentially FSXN is the storage um to help you achieve that. Um it's we worked quite hard with VMware to certify the solution and offer a data store that can help you um decouple the storage from the compute. But why would you want todo that? Um essentially when you look at a VMware environmentum there's three factors that essentially size your environment without FSX. So you have the cores uh the memory and the storage. So if your storage requirement is a lot higher you do before fsxn you needed to make it equal essentially on the computed memory making the TCO of such a solution not really viable uh to migrate essentially with FSXN you can take the storage aspect of the sizing and decouple it leaving you with sizing the environment accordingto the computer memory and allowing us to optimize the storage for you and make it a lot more uh palatable in terms of TCO. um [clears throat] when we look at the solution itself and what we offer. So essentially uh you still get aVSSAN uh within your VMC environment but you're able to add a NFS data store that comes uh directly from uh FSXN essentially as I mentioned it helps you to rightsize uh the solution. The other thing which is really cool is that you can use the different data management that we offer like snapshot and other capabilities that Gaddy will elaborate on to further optimize the environment. So one example would be using snap mirror and protecting your data somewhere else or moving it from onrem. [snorts]The other important aspect of a VMC environment is obviously the VMs themselves himself have a shared storage requirement. So it's really important to note that all of those are also supported with VMware. So if you're deploying for example an SQL environment on VMware and you need shared storage in order to realize the architecture you can definitely uh couple that with FSX and gain the different capabilities and have a guess mount that supports any of the protocol NFS SMB and icecazi and obviously [snorts] all the different benefit in terms of data management uh that we provide. [snorts]So going back to TCO, I had two slides that I wanted to show. One slide is essentially giving you guys aquick understanding of the amount of saving that you can reach. So this example has 400 VMs with around 150 terabyte of storage.So essentially with decoupling the storage requirement from the compute you're able to save around a million and a half in terms of uh TCO over 3 years and obviously everyone has a slightly different environment right this doesn't fit everybody h so what we did and I'll show you guys how to get to it in the demo section we created a really nice calculator that helps you plug in what you need and it will size the environment and also we'll show you what's the TCO that you're h that you will save uh with connecting FSX into the environment [snorts] with that I'll pass it to GDI to show you guys how you can migrate and extend from>> excellent onre >> uh thank you Ival yeah [clears throat] so uh definitely VMware is a very exciting use case and um seeing how free companies bring their best to the market uh and it's very advanced and uh I'm going to cover actually um the fact that you know uh using FSX isreally thebest way to migrate and extend from we think from any storage but specifically uh with on top uh into the cloud and uh in contrast to uh toVMware which is very advanced this one is really important because it's um it's really where most companies would start as they're moving to the cloud. So you see both u uh companies be in the beginning of the journey as well as companies that are well into the journey they have different flavors of that. So when you're looking at uh extending or creating some sort of a uh backup od um you can categorize it roughly intothree groups uh with a classic tradeoff. Uh on the left you will find uh the most simple the uh arguably thecheapest one uhsituation where um youget um to pay less but uh the RPO and LTO are more um are less favorable but um that's something that many companies start with which is um you can replicate the data you can back it upto the cloud and you have redundancy. Now, if at some point you actually want to use that data, you want to go into production or you want to maybe do data mining or maybe you want to do a DR, you would have to restore the data, you'd have to install applications. So, it will take some time, right? But as I said, uh it costs less in the center. You'll find a use case that is sort of a compromise. In that situation um what you will do is not only do you back up the data but also you're moving uh application active data right so all this thedata that is uhcurrently being used by applications will move as is and will be ready to use uh applications are still not deployed on the other side uh and in the event that you want to um start using that you still have to um uh either deploy or restore the actual applications. Um it will take short it will take less time. you will be more ready uh and cost a little bit more and eventually on the right hand side sort of a warm DR um you basically not only replicate all the data both the active as well as the backup uh but you also have the applications in installed and ready to go and in the event that you want to uhkickstart that you just have to uh reroute the communication and point the applications at the data. So there's really many advantages uh for all those use cases as far as uh on goes um on is uh um has very strong security hardening uh built-in all those uh tools do backup and DR all built into the onup operating system. Um you have very strong storage efficiency including taring. So uh automatically data that is not being used or is cold is going to be tiered out to much cheaper medium um and uh andbasically give you automatically the uh savings and um resiliency durability is at an enterprise uh level and uh those storage efficiencies that I mentioned they exist at the source and they move with you into the cloud so you're not losing anything. Um, finally, you can enjoy what's uhthe cloud capabilities by being able to scale up, scale down um uh and uhbasically leverage the existing resources and you can access the information from multiple protocols. whether it's uh SMB orNFS or even uh object uhobject store type of protocols. So I don't want to get too much into the weeds of the technology that enables those advantages. Um you can read through that but I will mention uh two or three that's worth mentioning. So snapshotis a very basic um capability of on top. Basically this is a pointerdriven copy uh of the data as it is now and because on top works with uh as ispointer based andblock based it is veryfast to take a snapshot and it's very uh costefficient to have snapshots. So a lot of the technology is based on that. Also worth mentioning snap mirror. So, SnapMro is an extremely efficient protocol to move data between systems. Uh, the data will move but only the delta only what changed at the block level will be taken, packaged efficiently, compressed andmoved and so you can really uh deploy any configuration any geography configuration that you need um uh to achieve your goals. Um I think the last one I'lltouch on is SnapCenter.is really an umbrella of um services and uh um agents that will allow you to take application consistent snapshot and backup. Right? So um many advanced applications have many uh of uh the advanced applications are stateful uh you know databases and similar and uh taking a snapshot of the data is not very meaningful uh if it's not done within the context of the application and snapset will be able to do that um in coordination with a specific application. So if we were to go and look at how uh each one of those three cases reconfiguration would look like this would be the first one where you're running on site uh you're taking a backup and uh that backup uh basically ends on the other side within uh within FSX. Um some of that data will be over time cold and will go into the um uh capacity tier which is uh cheaper in terms of cost and you have the data ready right there for restoring. Um, if you want, you can uh tweak that into more advanced configurations where uh not only does the backup wait there, but you can also back it up in addition to uh to AWS backup. And so um if you want to operationalize that anduh go live, you have to install the applications, you have to restore the data, right? The second configuration that we can see here uh we're actually copying data that includes both backups as well as live data. Uh and as I mentioned in that situation if you want to go live you have to uh deploy the applications and uh point them at the data. It will take you some time but will be faster than the first one. Lastly um in that third situation we're copying the data. We actually have the applications deployed, ready to go. When you want to turn off this theswitch, you point the applications to the data uh and you rear out the communication and you're good to go.So I wanted to cover a use case of a real customer that took all those umbest practices andput them to use. So this is acompany called Pearsons. uh the challenge that they have that they had was that theyhad a uh setup going for critical applications around finance and HR and uh it was not working well for them. The RPO and RTO were really uh not great and the solution that they uh chose is theychose to utilize um FS64 on top. They used uh snap mule, snapshots and flex clonesto um implement um avariation of the solutions I just uh covered. Um the outcome was really uh very successful. Um they migrated millions of files. Um and uh they didn't have to rearchitect anything. They didn't have to reppplatform. Um it was just to activate um the existing capabilities anduh files started to run. Um the actual data um refresh went uh 10x in terms of uh speed because everything is much more efficient, more compressed. Um and um they uh theydramatically reduced the RPO and RTO because of the previous points. Um anduh eventually um what was I think someof the more exciting thing was that they had a lot of people working on that solution. It was big. It was heavy. these people are now free to do uh higher value uhbusiness uhcreate better business value forthe company. So um as I said this is a fairly basic capability. We see it with beginning companies beginning their cloud journey and as well as companies that are well in. Um it's very good for migration and it's very good for um backup and disaster recovery situations. Um Yuval maybe you want to uh take it from here and tell us a little bit more about what what's next whatdoes customer can do after they have those capabilities? >> For sure. So you can definitely use snap mirror for migration disaster recovery and a third site copy like GI said the other capabilities that we have around um not just replicating the data we can also extend the data andcreate a cache out of it. So with flex cache and global file cache you're able to take that data and essentially create a cache of the data whether it will be on premise to cloud or cloud to onremise depending on the use case. Um I heard a really interesting use case of a customer that had sevendifferent application that he wanted to migrate but it wanted to start h gradually. So he used flex cache to move one of his application to AWS while the other six are still on prem and he can gradually move them and achieve that uh in a great way. essentially you can really create amesh of your data with those two technologies and I think it's pretty awesome and with that I'llgo on to speak a bit about what we've done with SAP Anna so obviously we can h run SAP Anna and your SAP platform using FSXN that was also a lot of heavy lifting a lot of good people working on that to make that happen when you look at SAP um it's a very demanding certification that the storage needs to uh go through in order to be certified. So I think it says a lot about our performance and our enterprise capabilities that we're able to provide. I wanted to go over a few of the dry ingredients that if you want to make that kind of environment. So uh we certified the single a deployment uh and we're doing it over NFS 4.1 and in terms of the host uh it's between uh 512 and 12 TBTE of RAM uh EC2 instances that you can use in this deployment. Also in the right hand side you can go um look a bit deeper in the SAP side for the specific certification what you should deploy andhow. Um, and I think the how is nice, but the why is really important. H, so when we look at what does a shared file system or the capabilities that GDI mentioned can do for your SAP environment, um, I chose three use cases that are pretty common and really are a no-brainer. So when you look at the backup capability um if you try to do that directly from the uh SAP database uh it will involve essentially a dump of the backup and then moving that specific file um away. Um, and if we put essentially um FSX under the hood, we're able to do that uh with uh snapshots that are pretty immediate and then snap mirror. So essentially the two minutes represent the block changes that we had that we needed to move uh away rather than a full copy that needed to be uh written to an off-site location. Similarly, when we look at the restore operation, it's the same thing just uh backward. So, if you had abackup of the database, you need to restore that file to the original location and then from there start up thesystem. H essentially by using the snapshot technology we're able to reduce that recovery time significantly and then being able to reduce your uh recovery operation in a very significant way. Um and lastly when we look at uh system refresh so updating or uh dev and test use cases um under the hood uh for FSX there's a lot of different things that take advantage of our um snapshot technology. One of them is called cloning. So you are able to take an operational system and clone the real data and uh drive your system refresh test andyour dev operation uh through it. So it helps you make helps make all those operation a lot more efficient and uh they come with a significant RAI because of it. [snorts] Uh and Gaddy mentioned snap center. So snap center comes in clutch in that use case. Obviously in order to take a snapshot that actually is meaningful for SAP you need to be able to uh communicate with the SAP HANA node. So snap center essentially allows you to plug into the SAP HANA node and do all of those operation that I mentioned in an application consistent manner. So you're able to clone something that is uh meaningful and being able to uh do it together with the database. We obviously can do that with a bunch of different application. Snap center specifically does it also with Oracle and SQL and GDI will um explain that a bit further. Um when we look at the um at the architecture that we propose for SAP deployment uh obviously you have two components uh key components one ofthem will be the database h the other thing that we can really help with is the shared file uh environment. So essentially uh you will deploy um SAP Anna you will attach it to single a FSX on top and what you can see here is we're using the snap vault or snap mirror technology in order to create free other environment that can benefit from the SCP HANA deployed on FSX. So you can take the same data and use it for a backup or a secondary copy of that and you can use it for QA testing. Obviously, if you have the production data, there's nothing better to test your new software on uh than the production data itself. So, you're able to clone the data both to the QA and test and for the uh dev and test environment as well. So, you're able to either fix bugs that you have or develop new software and all using the same data. And obviously when we talk about cloning it's also hyperefficient. So you can do that many times over without recurring any cost and in an immediate fashion which is pretty cool. >> Cool. And Gaddy will elaborate a bit how you can use that same technology with SQL and Oracle. >> Yep. Thank you. So um I'm going to cover um what you can do with MSQL and with Oracle. There's really you will see that there's a lot of similarities to SAP HANA really this is an more of databases but uh there's some uh small differences that's worth mentioning um our experience and you know part of why we're excited about uh the area of databases in general is that with FSX you're actually getting uh better performance and lower TCO and uhforsome of us it's uh it's exciting and uh so whyreally use that. So there's a number of situations, a number of use cases where this becomes very useful um using on top using uh using FSX. So this will accelerate migration. Um and really this is sort of a continuation of um the section I covered before. There's many different tools that will help you with that. Um you can do clones uh and snapshots and backups that are database aware and uh very efficient. So uh you can streamline yourworkloads and that will really help you accelerate innovation. Um the backup and restore that are consistent can land into the AWS u backup framework. Um you can use those tools also to um create a setup that will allow you to be to do birectional disaster recovery. So youcan have multiple sites and make sure that you can go out, you can go back again uh andmaintain thedata um at whatever state that you choose. And I'lltalk about a couple situations and um you can create um a uh a very effective deployment thatis cross region. uh some companies feel that's very important whether it's regulatory or um for just for availability and uh and durability.And so if we look at uh at an example, this uhthis example right here is a SQL, but really uh they're almost interchangeable. It's very similar if you use um uh if you use Oracle. uh you'll see that you have snap center running on the original site and uh allows you to basically take snapshots periodically. So it works with in coordination with the database. Itdoes an operation that'scalled quiet down uh and allows us to take the snapshot. the snapshots will continually continuously uh move to the target site with u where we have an FSX andso you'll have a live uh almost live copy um that is up to you know if you set the interval to 5 minutes then it's going to be you know up to at most 5 minutes from um from taking the snapshot and it will always be consistent will always be completeum and uh and thatallows you to really transition over when needed you can just turn on the database make it live and make uh that side the active site. Uh if we look at a different use case where in that example we used an Oracle but as I said itreally works for both of them. In that example we're actually doing we're actually covering a very different use case. Um we uh in the source uhsite where the data is coming from we're actually taking both periodic uh clones as well as different clones for the purpose of running a dev and test operation. Right? So we're going to take different slices of the live data that will help us do our um uh test and dev situations. And you can see on uh this will be taken and uh continuously transitioned to the other side. And you see that we have a heap of sort of volumes on the left and we can mount each one of them upon you know whenever we need that to represent a certain case. We can even spawn multiple databases and just mount the different use cases and then run our tests, right? And when we're done with our tests, we'll just flush everything down. So it's veryefficient way of uhdealing with that uh with that use case.SoI wanted to talk to switch gear a little and talk about uhKubernetes solutions for multi-AZ andsingle A. And again we uh wefeel that there's a great advantage inusing uh FS6 on top for that. Um first of all I wanted to talk about the journey. Um so we started um very early afterum containers and containerized solutions became a thing and became a reality. Um we started working uh andcreating solutions around that. I think an important point was when we launched um Trident um and uh that was uh 200 uh >> 16 >> 16 I can see from here uh and um Titant isreally important. It's a open source CSI driver and you can use that to um basically abstract anduse any on top. Um and uh it's very it's a it has a thriving community ofdevelopers andusers. Um fast forward um we uh basically uh provides uh provide uh the um trident for a number of solutions. We are uh launching amore advanced product called Astra uh which will uh use the CSI driver but will be a lot more. Um, Astra actually allows you to capture not just the data but actually the entire application with all its dependencies and inter relationshipbetween the objects. Uh, you can back up the entire application and you can restore it somewhere else and that's really tricky because the target might actually be of different configuration. Astra will figure this out and deploy it uh in such a way where it's going to work um as intended. Um intended. Um the trident uh CSI driver is also available for FSX. Um and uh it really helps providing a very unique uh solution because um uh I think we mentioned that but Iwill uh remind you again. FS6 comes in two uh flavors. It can be deployed over single A. It can be deployed over multiAZ. When you deploy FS6 on multi-AZ, it means that you have a fully synchronized copies. Each one is sitting in a different availability zone. Now uh when it comes to the solution that I'm presenting, I believe that there is no other storage solution that will give you in an easy way out of the box um the ability to run Kubernetes across uh multiple availability zones. And so the solution would look like that. You will have your uh persistent claim, persistent volume claim. um you can in fact run uh containers on both as they will both see the same data. The storage layer below is active passive which means that the containers from both side will actually communicate with one of the A's and if that A has a problem or the node fail it will seamlessly non-disruptively fail over to the other side. application will never notice. Um, it's worth mentioning here that uh this will work whether you're using uh SMB or NFS or uh block. And so um youcan really uh it gives you a lot of flexibility and because there's no cost when you're using FSX there's no cost of communication between the AS um it makes it a very interesting solution. Uh we had a case with a customer recently that used a different solution that when that solution was really small those communication cost was insignificant but over time they got to a point where the communication cost between the a1 and a2 were the biggest single line item on their bill and theywere very frustrated because of that and that actually made them replace the old solution andmove to uh to FSX.Okay. So, um I'd like to hand off to Val that's going to tell you um exciting news about uh Blue XP. >> Cool. Thank you, Gaddy. So um for those of you who don't know what blue XP isumwe used to have a cloud manager as the data management plane for CVO and FSX and essentially in the last insight which is the NetUP conference we up our game and we released uh Blue XP uh in order to connect a lot of our capabilities and give you guys a one experience to essentially enhance uh your data management and the things you need in order to be uh successful with storage.So what are we looking toachieve and what we're looking to enhance in terms of uh the blue XP experience? Uh so first and foremost uh you're managing storage. Um obviously Andy is doing a great job with enhancing the um AWS console with different capabilities but we want to make sure that if you use uh blue XP to manage the storage you get a great capabilities and features as well. So that's the first pillar that we're focusing onthe second one is around mobility. uh so being able to help you move the data to where you need and being able to uh achieve that with the uh with the platform. Uh the third one is around data protection. So if you uh for example need to manage uh snap mirror and your application and know exactly where your data uh reside and how does it uh protect and you're able to manage all of that through um the blue XP console and lastly being able to also understand your data right that's something that I hear from essentially every customer that I talk to is that there's data that they essentially don't have any idea what what's there. H so we have a lot of tools uh within our arsenal to help you governance the data both from understanding if data is old and shouldn't be there or if data uh from a privacy perspective shouldn't be in the location that it's in and allow you to put a lot of guard rails uh around uh your data and optimize it. Obviously from a TCO perspective as well when we look at the different integration I'm not going to go on each one of those uh integration in details but essentially blue XP comes with a wide array of [snorts] technologies and services that helps you um achieve what you need on the left hand side you can see obviously snap mirror which is essentially bread and butter for us it's something that you can manage very easily in the blue XP console. And obviously if you're not using on top or you want to do um data moving data between NFS to S3 for example, we also have uh cloud sync within the platform that helps you uh do that as well. And lastly on the right hand side as an example for governance and compliance we have the data sense capability that essentially allows you to really understand what you have within your data. So all of that is under essentially one umbrella and it allows you to manage your data from data protection and also manage it uh from all the different aspects that you need in order to be successful. Um I'll try to demonstrate it also live. Hopefully live demo will work as expected. >> Login. >> Login. >> Login. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> Yep. >> Yep. >> And if it want to let me log in that will be great. >> Cool. >> Cool. >> Cool. >> Excellent. >> Excellent. >> Excellent. >> Awesome. So I wanted to start off with the website itself. So um similar to how AWS managed the console, you get the information you need and you get the technology in the same place. So you're able to go to blue xpe.netup.com and you're able to get all the information you need in order to be successful. So in this um experience you essentially get all the different capabilities that we provide. So uh we uh cut them off according to what I explained before storage mobility protection andanalysis and control and you're able to understand better uh [clears throat] what we can do in order to assist you. And if you want to focus specifically on FSX uh we have aspecific uh page that helps you understand what can be achieved with FSX with our uh console. So, if you go over to the FSX page, you get the different resources that will help you succeed and you'll get uh the different capabilities that will allow you to um achieve more with your environment. Uh one of the things that I wanted to highlight and we talked about it in the presentation is we also have a lot of resources uh that will help you make decisions. One of them was the VMC and FSX TCO. So with within the console experience you can go [snorts] and experience the TCO calculator and understand exactly what is uh the cost of your environment. So it's a pretty easy calculator. You put in your environment details uh and you're able in the bottom to get a result and explain on the TCO. So you can see here for example that in the environment that I choose and I choose wisely I can do 70% TCL 70% TCL 70% TCL saving but essentially any heavy uh storage um VMware environment will enjoy a similar um TCO savings. So if I want to go and actually um use the console and apply what I learned. So within the experience you can go into the blue XP console itself. If I go back to the website uh you have a quick get started button that will go get you into the console in an easy way. Uh within the console I'm able to manage my FSX and also manage my on-remise environment as well. Uh you're able uh to replicate data not just from on top. So if I right if I take an on premise on top I can replicate it right here but I can also take uh storage that are not on top and use um the clouds sync capability as I demonstrate. So if I drag and drop non on top storage Ican still move the data in a nice and efficient way. So I'll run you through a replication to show you how it works. So if I drag and drop the system, I'm able to replicate in a pretty easy way the environment if my screen will allow me. It's in the button. Wonderful. Okay, that's okay. Oh, didn't allow me, but it does work not in the demo environment and I'm able to replicate and essentially uh manage that replication directly from here. So, if once you replicate, you're able to do all the different uh capabilities like editing the schedule, breaking it, and using the data. If I want to use theFSX and specifically, I can go back to the environment and I can go into my FSX system and essentially manage it from here. I get the uh the information about the system where it's deployed and I'm also able to manage the different volumes that I have. So in my case I have two volumes and I can from here directly get the mount command clone the volume or edit uh the different settings that it has. Uh it's important to note that everything I'm doing h can be automated as well. So we have a terapform model and we also have anible models and everything can be plugged in into automation andbe part of your um uh CI/CD pipeline as well. Uh and the other key capability that I wanted to highlight and it's thing that is um upcoming is we're adding as I mentioned with Blue XP we're upping our game. We're adding a lot more services and one of the services that we're going to offer is essentially the ability to use system manager. So you'll get a capability to doubleclick and go even deeper into FSX. So I have a quick demo to show you and demonstrate how it works. And so essentially this is an FSX system and you're able to use all the different capabilities that uh you used to from system manager directly on the FSX system. Uh so for example I'm able to set quotas and Q3s directly from here uh on the different volumes. So I'll demonstrate it quickly if it will allow me. Let's go to Q3s. So on Q3s I can go and add a different Q3s on the specific uh volume that I'm managing. [snorts] Cool. Awesome. Great back. >> Thank you. Sovery exciting especially the system manager. This is the first time that we have system manager working for uh FSX. So I want we're nearly out of time. I wanted to recap. So, Amazon FS6 [clears throat] for NetUP on um it's the only uh complete fully managed onup file system in the cloud. Uh we're very excited about it. You should uh definitely uh check that out. Uh it is the easiest path to migrate or extend any storage um to uh AWS and uh it enhances your uhFS64 on top experience um with blue XP. You can always uhdefinitely use the console the APIs and you also have the blue XP experience now also with uh system manager. Um, and uh I think we'll cut it uh short in favor of having questions. So maybe Andy can join us. Uh, anyone Uh, anyone with a question that we can take?