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Well-architected dashboard

Implement well-architected Cloud Volumes ONTAP system configurations

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Using configuration analysis insights and recommendations, leverage NetApp to implement best practices for your Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems running on Microsoft Azure storage. You can easily review the well-architected status, learn about issues with your configurations, and get recommendations to improve the architecture of any systems that aren't optimized for reliability, security, efficiency, performance, and cost.

Learn about the configuration analysis and well-architected status.

About this task

NetApp analyzes Cloud Volumes ONTAP system deployments in Microsoft Azure daily. The daily analysis provides the well-architected status, and insights and recommendations to help you fix configuration issues so that your systems meet best practices.

You can view the recommendations for configuration issues with your systems without deploying a Console agent; however, Console agent connectivity allows NetApp to provide the most comprehensive analysis of your system resources.

After the daily analysis completes, the dashboard displays the total number of well-architected resources, the number of resources in a critical state, and the number of resources in a warning state. Configurations are categorized by the pillars of the well-architected framework: reliability, operational excellence, cost optimization, performance efficiency, and security. The dashboard also includes a table that lists all configurations, the well-architected status of those configurations, the severity, category, resource type (volume or system), impacted resources, and the option to view the recommendation when the configuration is not optimized.

Before you begin

View recommendations for configuration issues

You can view recommendations for configuration issues after the daily analysis completes. Recommendations explain best practices and potential risks of unoptimized configurations. You can also download a CSV file of the recommendations.

Steps

  1. Log in to the NetApp Console.

  2. From the NetApp Console menu, select Workloads and then Well-architected.

  3. From the Well-architected dashboard, select View for any configuration.

    Optionally, select A screenshot of the download iconto download a CSV file of the recommendations for all configurations.

  4. Review the recommendation.

What's next

Fix configuration issues to keep your systems running at optimal performance.