Workload Factory analyzes your workloads running on supported cloud storage systems deployments daily. The analysis provides well-architected status, insights, and recommendations.

After the daily analysis completes, configurations appear as "optimized" or "not optimized" in the Well-architected dashboard for the deployment. You'll find configuration issues by category and a list of configuration issues and recommendations. You can review the recommendations for configuration issues. Some issues can be fixed automatically by Workload Factory, while others require manual intervention. In this case, Workload Factory provides detailed instructions to help you implement the recommended changes.

You can dismiss the analysis of configurations that do not apply to your environments. This avoids unnecessary alerts and inaccurate optimization results.

You can also create custom rules in plain language to validate your environments against your organization's standards and NetApp best practices. Test rules with a dry run, then schedule them to run across your environments. Learn more about custom rules.

Workload Factory applies best practices to large storage, database, and VMware environments by combining ongoing assessment with recommendation insights and remediation. Automated fixes applied in the NetApp Console reduce human error, ensure uniform management, and preserve performance and reliability across your workload infrastructures.

To get started with Workload Factory, sign up, add credentials, and establish connectivity to manage AWS resources and optimize workloads using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Quick start

The following pages provide guidance on implementing well-architected configurations across different NetApp storage solutions: