Configuration analysis for EVS configurations
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Workload Factory analyzes Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) configurations regularly to identify misalignments with best practices. Use the results to improve performance, cost efficiency, and compliance.
Key capabilities include:
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Daily configuration analysis
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Automatic best practice validations
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Proactive observability
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Insights to action
How it works
Workload Factory analyzes your workloads running on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file 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 the total optimization score, 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. When you dismiss a specific configuration analysis, Workload Factory does not include the configuration in the total optimization score.
Why it matters
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 Workload Factory console reduce human error, ensure uniform management, and preserve performance and reliability across your workload infrastructures.
Analysis requirements
For a complete configuration analysis, you must do the following:
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Associate a link. Link connectivity lets Workload Factory analyze all file system configurations like data protection and performance.
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Grant view, planning, and analysis permissions for VMware workloads.
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You must have at least one discovered Amazon Elastic VMware Service environment in your AWS account.
Best practices and recommendations for EVS workloads
Workload Factory provides best practices and recommendations for operating well-architected Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) workloads. The well-architected analysis assesses EVS configurations to help ensure your VMware environments are optimized for reliability, security, operational excellence, cost optimization, and performance efficiency. From the well-architected status tab in VMware, you'll find insights and recommendations to help implement well-architected best practices for your EVS environments.
The well-architected analysis categorizes configurations in the following pillars of the framework: reliability and security.
Reliability
Reliability ensures that workloads perform their intended functions correctly and consistently, even when there are disruptions.
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EVS environment resiliency
Ensure that your EVS cluster nodes are properly distributed across partition placement groups. All nodes should be members of a single partition placement group configured with four or more partitions. Proper partition placement ensures that your EVS cluster nodes are distributed across multiple fault-isolated hardware partitions within an AWS availability zone. Misalignment can result in significant loss of processing power or downtime if a partition fails.
Security
Security emphasizes protecting data, systems, and assets through risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
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Cluster node management
Ensure that your EVS cluster nodes have appropriate EC2 stop and termination protection configured. EVS ESXi nodes should be managed exclusively using vCenter or other VMware-level management tools. Without proper EC2-level protections, nodes could be accidentally stopped or terminated from the EC2 console, which can lead to virtual machine data unavailability or data loss.