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BlueXP workload factory introduces continuous guidance and guardrails to ensure ongoing optimization and adherence to best practices for the storage component of your Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This feature continuously scans your Microsoft SQL Server estate offline, providing you with a comprehensive report of insights, opportunities, and recommendations to help you achieve peak performance, cost-efficiency, and compliance.

Optimize your SQL Server workloads

You can now use Terraform from the Codebox to deploy Microsoft SQL Server.

This release of Workload Factory for VMware features a data reduction ratio assistant. The data reduction ratio assistant helps you decide which ratio is best for your VMware inventory and storage estate when preparing for AWS cloud onboarding.

Create a deployment plan for Amazon EC2 using the migration advisor

The Generative AI workload introduces the data guardrails feature, powered by BlueXP classification. The data guardrails feature identifies and masks Personal Identifiable Information (PII) helping you maintain compliance and strengthen security for your sensitive organizational data.

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You can now explore savings of detected Microsoft SQL servers on Amazon EC2 with FSx for Windows File Server storage in the savings calculator. Depending on your SQL server and storage requirements, you might find that FSx for ONTAP storage is the most cost effective for your database workloads.

Explore savings with FSx for ONTAP for your database workloads

You can now protect your Generative AI workloads data by taking a point-in-time copy of a knowledge base. This enables you to protect your data against accidental loss or test changes to the settings of the knowledge base. You can restore the previous version of the knowledge base volume at any time.

Take a snapshot of a knowledge base volume

Restore a snapshot of a knowledge base volume

You can now pause scheduled data source scans. By default, Generative AI workloads scans each data source daily to ingest new data into each knowledge base. If you don't want the latest changes to be ingested (during testing or while restoring a snapshot, for example) you can pause the scheduled scans and resume them at any time.

Manage knowledge bases

When selecting a knowledge base volume, you can now choose a data protection volume that is part of a NetApp SnapMirror replication relationship. This enables you to store knowledge bases on volumes that are already protected by SnapMirror replication.

Identify the data sources to integrate in your knowledge base

This release of Workload Factory for VMware features functionality and stability enhancements as well as the ability to import and export migration plans when using the VMware migration advisor.

Create a deployment plan for Amazon EC2 using the migration advisor

Read mode is available for storage management in Workload Factory. Read mode enhances the experience of basic mode by adding read-only permissions so that the Infrastructure-as-Code templates are filled with your specific variables. The Infrastructure-as-Code templates can be executed directly from your AWS account without providing any modify permissions to Workload Factory.

Learn more about read mode

You can now back up a volume before deleting it. The backup will remain in the file system until deleted.

Delete a volume

You can now customize configuration settings for Microsoft SQL server on Amazon EC2 with FSx for Windows File Server and Elastic Block Store storage in the savings calculator. Depending on your storage requirements, you might find that FSx for ONTAP storage is the most cost effective for your database workloads.

Explore savings with FSx for ONTAP for your database workloads

You can now navigate to the savings calculator from the Workload Factory console home page. Select from Elastic Block Store and FSx for Windows File Server to get started.

Workload Factory for VMware now supports migration to Amazon EC2 using the VMware migration advisor.

Generative AI workloads now supports multi-sentence chunking and overlap-based chunking for data sources.

Generative AI workloads now creates a dedicated Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP volume for each new knowledge base, enabling individual snapshot policies for each knowledge base and improved protection against failures and data poisoning.

RSS subscription is available from the Workload Factory console. Using an RSS feed is an easy way to consume and be aware of changes in BlueXP Workload Factory.

When adding AWS credentials in Workload Factory, you can now select a single permission policy, either read or automate mode, for each workload and storage management.

Add AWS credentials to Workload Factory

Terraform support is available for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system deployment and storage VM creation. The setup and admin guide now has instructions for how to use Terraform from the Codebox.

Use Terraform from Codebox

BlueXP Workload Factory for AWS is a powerful life-cycle management platform designed to help you optimize your workloads using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems. Workloads that can be streamlined using Workload Factory and FSx for ONTAP include databases, VMware migrations to VMware Cloud on AWS, AI chatbots, and more.