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Digital Advisor

Make informed decisions based on cloud recommendations

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Digital Advisor constantly analyzes your system and provides recommendations to improve the performance, efficiency, and health of your system.

Note Digital Advisor navigates you to BlueXP to implement the recommendations.

Migration

Provides information about the different types of workloads available within your storage system and identify the workloads that are cloud-ready. Moving workloads to the cloud result in cost savings and provide cloud disaster recovery.

The volumes that meet the following criteria are recommended for migration to Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) and Cloud Volumes Service (CVS):

  • Volumes should be using NFS, SMB, CIFS, FCP, or iSCSI protocol

  • Root volumes are excluded

  • Workloads in the volume are tagged as ORACLE, SAP, SAP HANA, MSSQL, MYSQL, SHAREPOINT, FILESHARE, VIRTUALIZATION and TRIDENT

  • System age is greater than 1 year

  • Support contract is ending in 6 months

Steps

  1. From the left pane, click Cloud Recommendations.

  2. Click on any one link in the Migration pane.

  3. Click Migrate to Cloud to launch BlueXP.

Tiering

Provides information about inactive local tier (aggregate) data, inactive volume data, tiered data, and unmonitored data. You can reduce your storage footprint and associated costs by monitoring and tiering your cold or inactive data to low-cost object storage tiers.

Note You can enable Inactive Data Reporting (IDR) to generate a zip file with an Ansible Playbook file. This information is available at customer, site, group, watchlist, cluster, and node levels.

The volumes that meet the following criteria are recommended for tiering:

  • Volumes should be using NFS, SMB, or CIFS protocol

  • Root volumes are excluded

  • Inactive Data is more than 50%

  • Aggregate Capacity is more than 50%

Steps

  1. From the left pane, click Cloud Recommendations.

  2. Click on any one link in the Tiering pane.

  3. Click Tier Data to launch BlueXP.

To learn more about FabricPool, refer to FabricPool Best Practices.

Backup & Archive

Provides information about the systems that should be backed up to the cloud. You can use NetApp Cloud Backup to secure your systems and restore them back when required.

The volumes that meet the following criteria are recommended for backing up to the cloud:

  • Root volumes are excluded

  • Source volumes and destination systems and volumes that have SnapVault backup are excluded.

Steps

  1. From the left pane, click Cloud Recommendations.

  2. Click on any one link in the Backup & Archive pane.

  3. Click Backup to Cloud to launch BlueXP.

Replication

Provides information about the data that should be replicated to the cloud to help in case of disasters.

The volumes that meet the following criteria are recommended for replication to the cloud:

  • Root volumes are excluded

  • SnapMirror source volumes are excluded

  • SnapMirror destination volumes (volume type LS and DP) are excluded

Steps

  1. From the left pane, click Cloud Recommendations.

  2. Click on any one link in the Disaster Recovery pane.

  3. Click Replicate to Cloud to launch BlueXP.