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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Manage an FSx for ONTAP working environment

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BlueXP enables you to manage your FSx for ONTAP working environment. You can enable automatic capacity management, change throughput and storage capacity and IOPS, remove or delete the working environment, and manage data services such as backup and recovery, copy and sync, classification, replication, and volume caching.

Manage automatic capacity

You can 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 the cluster's maximum capacity.

Note If you did not manually specify an IOPS value when creating the working environment, BlueXP will increase the IOPS by 3 IOPS per GiB of the new total capacity. If you specified an IOPS value, BlueXP will not adjust the IOPS. For details on configuring IOPS, refer to create a working environment.

Automatic capacity management is disabled by default. You can manage automatic capacity with or without an active Connector in AWS.

Manage automatic capacity without an active Connector

You can manage automatic capacity without an active Connector in AWS.

Steps
  1. Select the working environment on the canvas and select Enter Working Environment.

  2. Select the pencil icon (Image of the pencil edit icon.) to open the Automatic capacity management page.

    Note All other options require a Connector and are disabled.
    • Select the box to enable automatic capacity management.

    • Deselect the box to disable automatic capacity management if it was previously enabled.

  3. Select Apply.

Manage automatic capacity with an active Connector

You can manage automatic capacity with an active Connector in AWS.

Steps
  1. Open the FSx for ONTAP working environment.

  2. From the Overview tab, select Features.

  3. Select the pencil icon (Image of the pencil edit icon.) to open the Automatic capacity management page.

  4. On the Automatic capacity management page:

    • Select the box to enable automatic capacity management.

    • Deselect the box to disable automatic capacity management if it was previously enabled.

  5. Select Apply.

Change throughput capacity

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

Before you begin

You need an active Connector in AWS.

Steps
  1. Open the FSx for ONTAP working environment.

  2. From the Overview tab, select Features.

  3. Select the pencil icon (Image of the pencil edit icon.) to open the Throughput Capacity edit page.

  4. Select a new throughput capacity from the dropdown and select Update. This change can take up to 25 minutes to take effect and does not disrupt data access.

Change storage capacity and IOPS

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

Before you begin

You need an active Connector in AWS.

Steps
  1. Open the FSx for ONTAP working environment.

  2. From the Overview tab, select Features.

  3. Select the pencil icon (Image of the pencil edit icon.) to open the Storage Capacity & IOPS edit page.

  4. You can change the storage capacity and IOPS once every six hours. If you attempt to make changes more frequently, you will receive an error.

    A screenshot of the page to change the storage capacity and IOPS values.

    Note
    • The recommended maximum storage capacity utilization is 80% to maintain Data Tiering performance and allow capacity for additional data.

    • Selecting Automatic IOPS maintains a ratio of three provisioned SSD IOPS per GiB of primary storage up to 160,000. You cannot manually provision an IOPS value of greater than 160,000.

  5. Select the checkbox to confirm you understand changing storage capacity impacts the cost of the FSx for ONTAP service and that additional changes cannot be made for six hours.

  6. Select Update to confirm your changes.

Remove FSx for ONTAP from the workspace

You can remove FSx for ONTAP from BlueXP without deleting your account or volumes. You can add the FSx for ONTAP working environment back to BlueXP at any time.

Steps
  1. Open the working environment. If you don't have a Connector in AWS, you will see the prompt screen. You can ignore this and proceed with removing the working environment.

  2. At the top right of the page, select the actions menu and select Remove from workspace.

    A screenshot of remove option for FSx for ONTAP from the BlueXP interface.

  3. Select Remove to remove FSx for ONTAP from BlueXP.

Delete the FSx for ONTAP working environment

You can delete the FSx for ONTAP from BlueXP.

Warning This action will delete all resources associated with the working environment. This action cannot be undone.
Before you begin

Before deleting the working environment, you must:

  • Break all replication relationships with this working environment.

  • Delete all volumes associated with the file system. You will need an active Connector in AWS to remove or delete volumes.

    Note Failed volumes must be deleted using the AWS Management Console or CLI.
Steps
  1. Open the working environment. If you don't have a Connector in AWS, you will see the prompt screen. You can ignore this and proceed to deleting the working environment.

  2. At the top right of the page, select the actions menu and select Delete.

    A screenshot of delete option for FSx for ONTAP from the BlueXP interface.

  3. Enter the name of the working environment and select Delete.

Manage data services

You can manage additional data services from the FSx for ONTAP working environment.

A screenshot of the data services tab on the working environment

For details on configuring data services, refer to:

  • BlueXP backup and recovery provides efficient, secure, and cost-effective data protection for NetApp ONTAP data, Kubernetes persistent volumes, databases, and virtual machines, both on premises and in the cloud.

  • BlueXP copy and sync is a cloud replication and synchronization service for transferring NAS data between on-premises and cloud object stores.

  • BlueXP classification enables you to scan and classify data across your organization's hybrid multicloud.

  • Replicate data between ONTAP storage systems to support backup and disaster recovery to the cloud or between clouds.

  • Volume caching provides a persistent, writable volume in a remote place. You can use BlueXP volume caching to speed up access to data or to offload traffic from heavily accessed volumes.