How to Simplify Azure Migration and Accelerate Your AdoptionUtilizing Microsoft’s newest file service Azure NetApp Files

July 2019

Jeff Whitaker, NetApp Cloud Data Services (Azure Marketing)

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What are we seeing as the key struggle?

Survey Uptime Institute

Enterprise workloads

continue to be On-

Premises1

Enterprises are searching for a way to deploy file

workloads in the cloud without sacrificing:

Performance Reliability Enterprise Data

Management

No one wants to build/maintain their own file

servers!

Linux File Architecture in Azure: Until Now

Hand Built NFS Server

App 1 App 2 App 3

Azure Premium Disks

App x

Azure VM

…

Microsoft and NetApp: Partnership for SuccessCelebrating a nearly 20 year strategic partnership

• Building solutions delivering innovation both in the data center and in Azure

• Helping organizations manage their data

• Creating a new service to help customers with challenges migrating to Azure

• Microsoft and NetApp engineers have been working in unison on a new Azure service

• Goal to enable EVERY organization to better fulfill their often-massive cloud mandate

• Solve the challenges migrating core business critical, enterprise applications to Azure

The File Solution: Azure NetApp Files

• Powerful, enterprise file-storage service powered by NetApp

• An Azure service, sold and supported by Microsoft ➔ Not a NetApp offering.

• Migrate & run complex file-workloads with no application modification

• Minutes to spin-up, scale, & achieve on-premises-like performance (sub-millisecond

latencies)

• Complex file-applications : Linux / Open Source / Windows

• SAP Migration (File-system today, HANA certification pending) | HPC

• Availability as of Sept 2019 – 10 regions. White-listed on-boarding

• Regions 5 US, 3 EMEA, 2 APAC: US (East, East2, West2, Central, S Central), EU (North, West, UK South), APAC (S East Asia, AU East)

• “5x performance compared on-premises”

• Three price/performance tiers to match your application requirements – change on-the-fly

• Price per GiB/month: Native service draw down on your enterprise agreement

Azure NetApp Files: Pricing & Performance Tiers

Standard Premium Ultra

$ 0.15 per GiB/month* $ 0.30 per GiB/month* $ 0.40 per GiB/month*

Throughput

16 MiB/s per 1TiB

Throughput

64 MiB/s per 1TiB

Throughput

128 MiB/s per 1TiB

Suitable for

• Static web content

• File shares

• Database backups

Suitable for

• Databases

• Ent apps incl SAP

• Analytics

• Engineering apps

• Messaging queues

Suitable for

• Extreme performance / throughput intensive apps

• High Performance Computing

* Price in USD and subject to change per region

Throughput comparable to mainstream SSD Throughput comparable to Flash Arrays

Performance So Fast You’ll Think You’re On Premises

https://cloud.netapp.com/blog/azure-netapp-files-performance-so-good-youll-think-youre-on-premises

Azure Storage | Scalable storage for every use case

Object Storage

Azure Blobs

Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2

File Storage

Azure Files

Azure NetApp Files

Data Transport

Azure Import/Export

Azure Data Box

Hybrid Storage

Azure StorSimple

Azure File Sync

Avere

Azure NetApp Files Deployment Considerations

Access within region Vnet peering is supported

• Example – VM in Spoke Vnet 1 can access ANF in Hub Vnet 2

Express Route is supported

• Resources on-prem can access ANF in Hub Vnet 2

• Transitive routing is supported, Resources on-prem can access ANF in Spoke Vnet 1

Simplifying SAP Deployments on Azure

Planned At GA

Compute layerAzure IaaS VMs

SAP Application Server SAP HANA

data

log

/hana/shared

log

data

binaries/sapmnt

/usr/sap/trans

/usr/sap/SID

Highly Performant

• On premises like

performance

• On-demand scalability

Hybrid

• Replicate w/Cloud Sync

for hybrid cloud

deployments

Ent Data Management

• Space/Time efficient

SnapShot copies and

clones

Simple to Manage

• Native Azure

experience for easy

deployment & scale

Compute layerAzure IaaS VMs

SAP AnyDB

Performance Requirement Low Medium Med-High High

Storage layerAzure NetApp Files

Find detailed solution guides for SAP on Azure w/ Azure NetApp Files on Azure.com

Multinational Oil and Gas Company Selects

Azure NetApp Files for Multi-PB File Storage

Needs

• SITUATION

With the closure of core data centers, and the adoption of a cloud-first strategy, the company needed to move

their NFS and SMB application sets to the cloud while still achieving the same levels of enterprise-class

performance. They needed a file solution that could scale for a broad set of workloads including production

systems, staging environments, disaster recovery, and more.

• BENEFITS

Using all three tiers of service to right size for each individual workload.

The performance is solving the need for core high performance

applications without requiring application changes

Azure NetApp Files has opened the door for moving core enterprise

applications to Azure

“We have been highly impressed with the level of work and co-operation between the engineering

and also account teams within Microsoft and NetApp as they have worked to deliver Azure NetApp

Files into production use with us.”

• SOLUTION

The Microsoft Azure cloud team is migrating directly into Azure NetApp Files and saw the solution as a “fully

managed service” which once integrated into their cloud setup could be consumed by various projects. The company

has chosen Azure NetApp Files as the strategic solution for NFS and SMB environments in Azure and have been early

adopters on each of the feature sets as released and will continue with this into the Cross-Region Replication and

Backup services as well.

Customer Story

Demo

Summary

Half of enterprise applications are file-based… …Need Azure NetApp Files to free them from the data center

Achieve consistent high-performance for business-critical applications

An Azure service built on highly-reliable NetApp storage systems – Inside Azure DCs

Manage data with built-in enterprise data management features

Get simple file shares without storage specific knowledge

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