BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

From the instance screen in the Databases inventory, the options to fix, postpone, and dismiss a configuration issue are available for single or multiple instances for Microsoft SQL Server or for single or multiple databases for Oracle.

Workload Factory can analyze your EBS performance usage and then suggest the best and most cost-efficient FSx for ONTAP configuration so that you can save more by switching to FSx for ONTAP.

Explore savings for detected storage environments in the Workload Factory console

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

Ask Me, Workload Factory's AI assistant, is integrated with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Using MCP, Ask Me securely interfaces with external environments and queries API tools to deliver responses tailored to your specific storage environment.

Workload Factory can analyze your EBS performance usage and then suggest the best and most cost-efficient FSx for ONTAP configuration so that you can save more by switching to FSx for ONTAP.

Explore savings for detected storage environments in the Workload Factory console

You can quickly navigate to an FSx for ONTAP file system resource screen by selecting the file system name, now a hyperlink, from the FSx for ONTAP inventory.

If you have cache relationships between FSx for ONTAP file system and another type of ONTAP storage (on-premises system, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and FSx for ONTAP), you can discover and view them from the Workload Factory console. This allows you to better understand data flows, optimize cache utilization, and improve efficiency across distributed environments.

Discover and view cache relationships in the Workload Factory console

Workload factory now analyzes your FSx for ONTAP file systems for the following configuration:

Volume file capacity utilization threshold: checks whether the file capacity thresholds are set to 80% or lower. This helps you avoid running out of space on your file systems.

View the well-architected status of your FSx for ONTAP file systems

The NetApp Workload Factory notification service includes the notification for well-architected configuration issues on a weekly basis.

Notification types and messages in the Workload Factory setup and administration documentation

With this feature, you can configure privileged delete access for immutable files in your FSx for ONTAP file systems. This allows you to protect critical data from accidental or malicious deletion while still enabling authorized users to override the lock and delete these files as needed. Enabling privileged delete is available during volume creation or for existing volumes.

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

The VMware workloads planning center enables you to view and manage your VM inventory and migration plans from one place. You can upload and save multiple VM inventories from different environments, and start planning a migration to AWS EC2 or Amazon Elastic VMware service for any of them. You can also create and save AWS EC2 or EVS migration plans.

Explore the VMware workloads planning center

BlueXP Workload Factory for VMware now enables you to use the Amazon Elastic VMware Service migration advisor to rapidly migrate your on-premises VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service. After you create a migration plan using the migration advisor, it is automatically saved in the list of migration plans in the planning center.

Create a deployment plan for Amazon EVS using the migration advisor

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

Using the Workload Factory API, you can now add a data source from a generic NFSv3, NFSv4, or SMB share to a NetApp Connector for Amazon Q Business. This enables you to include files that are stored on volumes hosted by filesystems other than Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Create a NetApp Connector for Amazon Q Business

Add data sources to a connector

You can now configure advanced chat settings that are applicable to the chat model for the knowledge base such as the response length, temperature, reasoning settings, and more. Some of these settings, such as recency and modification time settings, advanced retrieval settings, and system prompt are available only using the Workload Factory API.

Create a GenAI knowledge base

If your chosen embedding, chat, or reranking model has inference settings, you can now select an inference type. This enables you to better tune the chatbot performance and resource requirements to your needs.

Create a GenAI knowledge base

The NetApp Workload Factory notification service includes the notification for well-architected issues for Storage.

Notifications for NetApp Workload Factory

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

Workload factory has enhanced the data reported for your FSx for ONTAP file systems. The downloadable report from the FSx for ONTAP inventory page includes the following new columns:

Workload factory has made several enhancements to view volume snapshot details and manage volume snapshots. These enhancements make it easier for you to understand the status of your snapshots and protect your data.

Additional items appear in Volume details under the Protection tab:

The new snapshot management screen is accessible from a volume; it provides information about the snapshot policy for the volume and includes a table with all volume snapshots. The table displays the following snapshot details: creation time, size, expiry time, immutable snapshot protection, and labels. From the management screen, you can change the snapshot policy for the volume, create a snapshot manually, and edit, access, restore, and delete snapshots.

Workload factory supports decreasing the solid-state drive (SSD) capacity of your second-generation file systems. With elastic file system capacity, you can dynamically adjust the capacity of your file systems to match the needs of your workloads.

Adjust file system capacity

The workload factory notification service includes success and failure notifications for automatic capacity management for Storage.

Notifications for BlueXP workload factory

The BlueXP workload factory notification service includes the notification for automatic capacity management for Storage.

Notifications for BlueXP workload factory

The Agentic AI-powered error log analyzer is a new feature that leverages advanced machine learning algorithms to automatically detect and analyze errors in log files. This tool aims to streamline the troubleshooting process by providing developers with actionable insights and recommendations based on the patterns it identifies in the logs.

Learn more about the Agentic AI-powered error log analyzer

Workload factory includes support for Oracle databases. In the workload factory console, you can view your Oracle databases from the inventory, register databases to use advanced features in workload factory, and analyze Oracle databases for alignment with best practices using the well-architected feature. The well-architected analysis determines whether the storage configurations for Oracle databases are optimized. You can use this information to make informed decisions about your database deployments and ensure they are running efficiently.

Implement well-architected database configurations in workload factory

Workload factory supports Microsoft SQL Server deployments on second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems. This enhancement allows you to leverage the latest features and performance improvements available in the second-generation file systems while managing your SQL Server workloads.

Authenticating Microsoft SQL Server instances with Windows credentials is embedded in the workflow to prepare Microsoft SQL Server hosts for protection with BlueXP backup and recovery. This used to be a prerequisite step to complete manually. Instead, you'll be prompted to share Windows credentials with administrative access if you haven't registered the hosts in workload factory using Windows credentials.

Learn how to protect Microsoft SQL Server workloads via the workload factory console.

The well-architected analysis assesses and fixes Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) misalignment across endpoints for Microsoft SQL Server on FSx for ONTAP storage. Aligning MTU settings helps to optimize network performance and reduce latency for SQL Server workloads.

Implement well-architected database configurations in workload factory

BlueXP backup and recovery enables you to back up, restore, verify, and clone Microsoft SQL Server databases and availability groups. From the workload factory console, you can access and use BlueXP backup and recovery to protect Microsoft SQL Server workloads.

Learn how to protect Microsoft SQL Server workloads via the workload factory console.

For details about BlueXP backup and recovery, refer to the Protect Microsoft SQL workloads overview with BlueXP backup and recovery.

The well-architected analysis now includes validation for high-availability clusters. This validation checks all cluster-related configurations from the server side, including disk availability and configuration on both nodes, Windows cluster configuration, and failover readiness. This ensures that the Windows cluster is properly set up and can successfully failover when needed.

Implement well-architected database configurations in workload factory

The workload factory console now includes a multi-level menu for instances. This change provides a more organized and intuitive navigation structure for managing instances. Menu options for instance management include viewing the instance dashboard, viewing databases, creating a database, and creating a sandbox clone.

When the NT Authority\SYSTEM user doesn't have sufficient permissions on the Microsoft SQL Server, you can authenticate with SQL Server credentials or add the missing SQL Server permissions to NT Authority\SYSTEM.

Explore potential savings for your database environments with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

We've added several new columns to the replication relationships table to give you more information about your replication relationships in the Replication relationships tab. The table now includes the following columns:

This release introduces the updated term "NetApp Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI)" to better reflect the integration of artificial intelligence in our ransomware protection capabilities.

In addition, the following enhancements have been made to ARP/AI:

Protect your data with NetApp Autonomous Ransomware Protection with AI (ARP/AI)

Workload factory now analyzes your FSx for ONTAP file systems for the following configurations:

View the well-architected status of your FSx for ONTAP file systems

You can now dismiss one or more configurations from the well-architected analysis. This allows you to ignore specific configurations that you don't want to address at the moment.

Dismiss a configuration from the well-architected analysis

You can now use Terraform from the Codebox to create a link for association with an FSx for ONTAP file system. This functionality is for users who create links manually.

Connect to an FSx for ONTAP file system with a Lambda link

The following new regions are now supported for exploring savings for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), FSx for Windows File Server, and Elastic File Systems (EFS):

You can now create SMB/CIFS shares which point to directories within a volume. Within the volume, you'll be able to see which shares exist, where the shares are the pointing to, and the permissions granted to specific users and groups.

For data protection volumes, the flow of creating an SMB/CIFS share now includes the creation of a junction path to the volume for mounting purposes.

Create a CIFS share for a volume

NetApp Workload Factory now supports automatic deployment and mounting of your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP filesystem. This enables you to begin deploying your VMs on FSx for ONTAP filesystems when migration to the Amazon EVS environment is complete.

Create a deployment plan for Amazon EVS using the migration advisor

You can now explore the potential savings for migrating your VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS). The savings calculator enables you to compare costs of using Amazon EVS with and without Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as underlying storage. The calculator displays potential savings in real-time as you adjust characteristics of your environment.

Explore savings for Amazon Elastic VMware Service with BlueXP Workload Factory

If chatbot query results contain structured data, GenAI can store the results in an Amazon S3 bucket. When these results are stored in an S3 bucket, you can download them using the download link within the chat session.

Create a GenAI knowledge base

NetApp now provides a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with NetApp Workload Factory for GenAI. You can install the server locally to enable external MCP clients to discover and retrieve query results from a GenAI knowledge base.

NetApp Workload Factory GenAI MCP server