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Hello, I'm here to talk about Azure NetUP files or ANF, a shared storage service for running the most demanding file workloads in the cloud. ANF includes the popular data access and management capabilities of NetApp's ONTAP storage systems. And we can now preview Azure VMware solution with NFS data stores on ANF as supplemental storage. We'll be going through a demo showing you how to configure an ANF capacity pool and mount an NFS data store with Azure VMware solution. So with that, let's get started. With Azure NetUP files and support for NFS data stores with AS storage capacity is now decoupled from compute in Azure VMware solution. You can easily add just the amount of storage you need at any given time and you can get the benefits of NetApp storage efficiencies. For customers running VMware vSphere or cloud foundation on premises, there is seamless integration with Azure VMware solution for manageability and data migration with features such as HZX. NetApp on systems running on prem can also utilize NetApp Cloud Sync to migrate and protect data on ANF. Looking at the architecture, we can see how Azure and NetApp files can be used for both in-g applications as well as for NFS data stores on AVS. NetApp provides multiple options for protecting data offsite and we recommend checking out our NetApp solutions portal for both data protection and disaster recovery options.It's very easy to migrate workloads to data stores and Azure NetApp files. From our vsenter console, we'll rightclick on a VM and select migrate. Choose only to change the storage location.We need to adjust the VM storage policy here because VSAM policies are incompatible with ANF data stores. And then select the data store, verify, and finish. It's really that simple to migrate your workloads.But now let's take a step back and show the configuration steps to create an ANF capacity pool and volume and attach the data store to AVS. First in Azure, we need to go to capacity pools and select to create a new pool. We'll fill in a name, the desired service level, and the size. Then we'll click on the newly created capacity pool to create a volume. Here we'll fill out a name for the volume and the desired capacity and network settings. A best practice here is to use a volume of between 4 and 8 TEB. Next, we'll enter the protocol information NFS version 3 for ABS data stores.Enter tags as required and finally review the configuration as entered and click the create button. We can view the deployment in progress and then go to the resource once it has been deployed. Now that we have our volume deployed, it is a straightforward process to attach it as a data store in AS. We'll switch to our AVS private cloud now and go to storage and then connect Azure NetApp files volume. Select the capacity pool and volume that was created previously and associated AVS cluster and enter a name for the data store. Once this is complete, hit the connect button to begin the deployment.We can see the deployment is complete. So let's go to our vSphere console to confirm. Here we can see the newly created ANF data store right above the VSAN data store. Well, that about wraps up this video demonstration of Azure NetUP files with NFS data stores on ABS. 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.
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