FSx for ONTAP file system management tasks such as adding volumes, expanding file system capacity, and managing storage VMs are now managed in BlueXP workload factory, a new service offered by NetApp and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. You can use your existing credentials and permissions just as before. The difference is that you can now do more from BlueXP workload factory to manage your file systems. When you open an FSx for ONTAP working environment from the BlueXP canvas, you will go directly to BlueXP workload factory.

Learn about FSx for ONTAP features in BlueXP workload factory

If you're looking for the advanced view option, which enables you to manage an FSx for ONTAP file system using ONTAP System Manager, you can now find that option from the BlueXP canvas after you select the working environment.

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).

Refer to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in three additional regions for full details.

You can now add a storage VM to the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system using BlueXP.

The My Opportunities tab is now My estate. The documentation is updated to reflect the new name.

When creating a working environment, you can specify the start time for the weekly 30-minute maintenance window to ensure maintenance does not conflict with critical business activities.

When creating a volume, you can enable data optimization by creating a FlexGroup to distribute data across volumes.

When creating a working environment, you can specify the start time for the weekly 30-minute maintenance window to ensure maintenance does not conflict with critical business activities.

When creating a volume, you can enable data optimization by creating a FlexGroup to distribute data across volumes.

When creating a working environment, you can now have BlueXP generate a security group that allows traffic within the selected VPC only. This feature requires additional permissions.

You can optionally add and modify tags to categorize volumes.

The IOPS limit is increased to allow manual or automatic provisioning up to 160,000.

User interface improvements have been made and screenshots have been updated in the documentation.

You can now choose to enable automatic capacity management to add incremental storage based on demand. Automatic capacity management polls the cluster at regular intervals to assess demand and automatically increases storage capacity in increments of 10% up to 80% of the cluster's maximum capacity.

You can now change the storage capacity and IOPS at any time after you create the FSx for ONTAP working environment.

If you previously provided your AWS credentials to Cloud Manager, the new My estate feature can automatically discover and suggest FSx for ONTAP file systems to add and manage using Cloud Manager. You can also review available data services through the My estate tab.

Discover FSx for ONTAP using My estate

You can now change throughput capacity at any time after you create the FSx for ONTAP working environment.

You can now replicate and sync data to on-premises and other FSx for ONTAP systems using FSx for ONTAP as the source.

You can now create iSCSI volumes in FSx for ONTAP using Cloud Manager.

You can now select a single or multiple Availability Zone HA deployment model.

Create an FSx for ONTAP working environment

AWS GovCloud account authentication is now supported in Cloud Manager.

Set up the IAM role

When you create an FSx for ONTAP working environment, you now must provide the ARN of an IAM role that Cloud Manager can assume to create an FSx for ONTAP working environment. You previously needed to provide AWS access keys.

Learn how to set up permissions for FSx for ONTAP.

You can create iSCSI volumes for FSx for ONTAP using the Cloud Manager API and manage them in your working environment.

You can elect volume units (GiB or TiB) when creating volumes in FSx for ONTAP.

Now you can create CIFS volumes in FSx for ONTAP using Cloud Manager.

Now you can edit FSx for ONTAP volumes using Cloud Manager.