These are slides presented as a collaborated event from NetApp and AWS. The topic is how customers can modernise their SAP and VMware workload on the AWS Cloud, while optimizing cost and performance. It also navigates the key data protection features and terminology of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

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Enterprise Workload and
Data Protection with
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Lily Jang
Storage BD, APJ
AWS
Varun Seth
AWS Solutions Architect, APJ
NetApp

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SAP Workload with
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
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Drivers for migrating SAP workloads to the cloud
Modern enterprise
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Business drivers
• Reduce costs
• Innovate faster/modernize business
processes
• Consolidate systems/support M&A
activity
• Become data-driven
• Improve sustainability
Technical drivers
• 2027 End of Support for ECC
• Reduce technical debt
• Improve security and reliability
• Consolidate/eliminate data center
footprint
• Increase staff productivity and
retention

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SAP has trusted AWS for 15+ years
AWS HAS THE LONGEST TRACK RECORD PARTNERING WITH SAP IN THE CLOUD
SAP Data
Warehouse Cloud
SAP
Analytics Cloud
SAP
HANA Cloud
SAP IoT
Integration
SAP Business
Technology Platform
Qualtrics
SAP Concur
SAP NS2 HANA
Secure Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
Customer
Identity & Access
Management (Gigya)
RISE with SAP
SAP Upscale
Commerce SAP Commerce
Cloud Context
Driven Services
SAP Sales and Service
Cloud (C4C)
Signavio
RUNS
ON AWS
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AWS Regions for BTP
only vs 10 total from
other CSP’s combined2
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BTP services powered
only by AWS1
100%
New BTP Services
launched on AWS in 2022
(vs 33% for next CSP)1

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Why Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for SAP?
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Accelerate Deployment time and SAP
migration up to 40%
Millisecond latency, high IOPS and
high throughput for S/4 HANA
Instantaneous Backup and Cloning

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Use Case 1: Back Up and Recovery
• Accelerate HANA system upgrade
operations
• Accelerate test cycles
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Evaluate results
Finish testing
Create Snapshot
copy
Golden
Template
Savepoint 2
Savepoint 1
Reset system
Create Snapshot
copy
Create Snapshot
copy
Reset system
Backup Upgrade Testing
Restore and recovery,
if required
4 6 10 14
hours 8 12 16
DB
start
Upgrade Testing
DB
start
Planned downtime reduced by
8 hours

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SAP HANA Backup Options
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Backup
Data
SAP HANA
read write
Data
SAP HANA
ONTAP Snapshot
FSx for
NetApp ONTAP
File-based backup
or BACKINT
Storage-based
Snapshot Backup
Backup runtime Hours < 1min
CPU load at database server
during backup
High No load
Network load High No load
Restore Hours < 1min
Recovery Hours
Minutes – depending
on snapshot frequency
Block integrity check
Executed during
backup
Weekly file-based, or
execute hdbpersdiag
on existing Snapshots
Backup schedule Once per day
Multiple backups per
day (4-6
recommended)
File-based backup
Storage-based Snapshot backup

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Example 1: Backup of a 1 TB SAP HANA System (2TB RAM)
Snapshot Backup vs AWS Backint for HANA
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Backup runtime reduced by 90%
File-based backup: 20min
(~730 MB/s throughput)
Snapshot backup: 2min

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Example 2: Backup, Restore and Cloning of a 4TB Database
(8TB RAM)
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1 hours 40min
2 min
Backup
5 hours 20min
1 hour 40 min *
Restore and Recovery
SAP System Refresh
98% reduction
70% reduction
Restore
65% reduction
Restore Startup Recovery
Startup Reco. * with 4 NetApp® Snapshot backups per day
2 hours 50min
1 hour 10min
Restore Startup
Startup
(Recovery to a specific backup or Snapshot copy)
Storage
Clone
Snapshot Based
File Based

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Use Case 2: Cloning
SAP System Refresh
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Data
PRD
Data
QAS
Data
PRD
Data
PRD‘
Data
PRD
Data
PRD‘
Data
Repair System creation to address logical
corruption
Disaster Recovery testing

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VMware Cloud on AWS with
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
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AWS Global Infrastructure
vCenter
On-premises
vSphere based
environment
Amazon EC2 Amazon S3 Amazon RDS
Amazon
Redshift
AWS Direct
Connect
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
SageMaker
Amazon Shield
vSphere vSAN NSX
vCenter
VMware Cloud on AWS
High throughput, low latency,
private access to AWS services
Single pane of glass and API
across on premises and cloud
SDDC stack on AWS
infrastructure
What is VMware Cloud on AWS?

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Replacing Heavy Lifting with Managed Service
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Data
Application
Operating System
Hypervisor
Storage
Servers
SAN
Networking
Power & Cooling
Facilities
Real Estate
On-Premises
Data
Application
Operating System
VMware Cloud on AWS
In the Cloud
VMware
Operations
Your
Team

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Why VMware Cloud on AWS?
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46%
Faster Cloud Migrations
(6.8months → 3.6months)
50%
Less labour hours for Infra Ops
200+
Compatible AWS services
• Source: IDC Business Value White Paper, The Business Value of VMware Cloud on AWS for Supporting Business-Critical Applications,, January 2021
• Source: Forrester TEI Report, Forrester Economic Total Economic Impact Study: VMware Cloud on AWS, December 2022

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Key Use Cases of VMware Cloud on AWS
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Next-Generation
Apps
Cloud Migrations
Consolidate Migrate
Data Center
Extension
Expand
Maintain
Disaster Recovery
Primary Secondary

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VMware Cloud on AWS Storage options
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Virtual
machines /
workloads
Hyperconverged
External Datastore
In-guest
• VMware vSAN
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
• VMware Cloud Flex Storage
• Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
• Amazon FSx for Windows
• Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
• Amazon EFS
• Amazon S3

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Attaching VMC datastores with Amazon FSx for NetApp
ONTAP
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Workload Datastore
(vSAN)
Mgmt. Datastore
(vSAN)
VMware
Customer Administrator
(VMware Cloud Admin)
vSphere vSAN
AWS Global Infrastructure
Customer Administrator
(AWS Cloud Admin)
Datastore1
(NFS)
NFS v3
Synchronous Mirror
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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Independent Scale of Compute and Storage
• 90% use shared storage for independent scale of compute &
storage
• 35% of workloads are ‘storage heavy’ (>250 GB/VM)
• Reduce VMC TCO up to 40% by scaling storage and compute
independently

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Note: per GB-month, with storage compression & deduplication enabled, Singapore region
Cost-effectiveness Example
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Data Compression & Deduplication
~2/3 savings
Intelligent Data Tiering
SSD
storage
~2/3 savings
Capacity pool
storage
Multi AZ Single AZ
SSD $0.1050 $0.0525
Standard Capacity Pool $0.0167 $0.0083
Backup $0.0175 $0.0175

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• Reduced CAPEX costs via datacenter
consolidation
• Optimized IT efficiency through
IaaS/PaaS simplicity
• Foundation for new cloud app
development
• Midsize Enterprise
• 5,000 employees
• 351 VMs
• 590 TB Storage
Customer Environment
TCO Use Case: Data Center Evacuation
25% lower TCO
$0
$1,000,000
$2,000,000
$3,000,000
$4,000,000
$5,000,000
$6,000,000
VMC VMC & FSx
3-year savings = $1,145,805
FSxN
SDDC
21x i3en.metal 3y Sub
24x i3.metal 3y Sub
w/ FSxN
FSx for NetApp ONTAP assumes 65% efficiency savings, 2048 MB/s
Benefits

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• Datacenter extension to cloud for
test/development
• Address hardware procurement
challenges- time, cost etc.
• Accelerate database patching, &
new feature rollout
Data Center extension to support new
development
• 150 VMs
• 45 TB Storage
Customer Environment
Benefits
TCO Use Case: Data Center Extension
25% lower TCO
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$0
$100,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
$700,000
VMC VMC & FSx
3-year savings = $145,821
FSxN
SDDC
6x i3en.metal 3y Sub
4x i3.metal 3y Sub
w/ FSxN
FSx for NetApp ONTAP assumes 65% efficiency savings, 512 MB/s VMC on AWS + FSxN calculator
https://bluexp.netapp.com/vmc-aws-fsx-ontap/roi

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Key Take Aways
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SAP on AWS with FSxN VMware Cloud on AWS with FSxN
Time and Cost Savings through Optimized
Operational Overhead
46% Faster Cloud Migration, 50% less Labour
Hours for Infra Ops with VMC on AWS
Storage-based Snapshot backup vs File-based
backup (Backint)
Independent Scaling of Compute and Storage
Faster Backup, Recovery, Cloning, and System
Refresh/Repair
Storage Tiering, Data Deduplication, and
Compression
Optimized Backup / DR with SnapMirror, SnapShot, FlexClone, and FlexCache

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Data Protection with
Amazon FSx for NetApp
ONTAP
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Why is data protection needed?
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• Modern companies are in the data business…regardless of
what they make or sell
▪ Oil and gas companies use data to find new reserves
▪ Online retailers depend on customer data to promote their
products and services
▪ Brick and mortar businesses make critical decisions from sales
and traffic data
• Accessibility of data must be ubiquitous
▪ Fast access means making data available broadly
▪ Loss of access can prevent a business from serving its customers
• Loss of data cannot happen
▪ Every piece of data is an opportunity
▪ Recovering lost data might be impossible

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Data protection metrics
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The maximum acceptable amount of
data that can be lost if a failure occurs
Recovery point objective (RPO)
The maximum acceptable amount
of time that can elapse before data
is made available after a failure
Recovery time objective (RTO)
Disruptive
event
How much data loss How long to recover
Timeline
Last valid copy Recovered data
Recovery point Recovery time

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Data Protection Strategies
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I have secondary systems
available if I need them.
I have backup copies of my
data if I need them.
I have parallel systems ready
if I need them.
Backup and archive Disaster recovery Continuous availability
Hours / days Minutes / hours Seconds / minutes
Total cost of data protection solution
Recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO)
$$$$$
$$$
$

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Feature rich NetApp ONTAP
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Storage management
✔FlexVol
✔FlexGroup
✔LUN
✔Namespace
✔Qtrees
✔Quotas
✔FlexCache
✔FlexClone
✔Snapshots
✔SnapRestore
✔SnapMirror
✔SnapMirror Cloud
✔SnapLock
Data protection
✔NFS – v3, v4.x
✔SMB – v2, v3, CA
✔S3
✔iSCSI
✔Multi-protocol access
Access protocols
✔Deduplication
✔Compression
✔Compaction
✔Thin provisioning
✔Tiering
Storage Efficiency Data security
✔FPolicy and VScan
✔Active Directory integration
✔LDAP and Kerberos
✔Multiple SVMs
✔File access auditing
✔Antivirus

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NetApp Snapshots
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• Read-only point-in-time image of a volume
• Consumes minimal storage space
• Only changes made at the block level (4KB)
• Incur negligible performance overhead
• Instantaneous non-disruptive creation
• Managed manually and through policies
• Can be managed through NetApp SnapCenter for application-
aware protection
• Serves as local backups and enable quick recovery
• The basis for other ONTAP technologies such as
cloning (FlexClone) and replication (SnapMirror)

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NetApp SnapLock
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• Write once, read many (WORM) data retention solution
• SnapLock Compliance: Certified to meet strict regulatory requirements,
plus enables creation of air gap backups for leading ransomware
protection
• SEC17a-4, HIPAA, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Rule1.31(b), FINRA
• SnapLock Enterprise: Enables businesses to meet legal requirements,
protect against ransomware attacks, and prevent deletion of critical data
• Flexible regulatory requirements or organization-defined policies
• Administrator is trusted, admin operations are allowed, but audited
• Feature of FSx for ONTAP that works with application software
• Support for file workloads (NFS and SMB)
• Retention at the file level
• Supports tiering to capacity pool and backups
Meet strict compliance requirements,
plus protect against cyber attacks

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NetApp SnapLock
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NetApp SnapMirror
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US-EAST-1
Corporate
Data Center
Data
estate
• Asynchronous snapshot-based replication
▪ Replicates snapshots to create a data replica of a volume or an SVM in
separate location
▪ Updates occur on a user-defined schedule
• Data transfer is block-level incremental forever
• Retains all ONTAP storage efficiencies
▪ Tiering to capacity pool is supported on destination
• In-flight encryption with AES 256-bit GCM
• Managed through policies or manually
▪ NetApp SnapCenter can be used for application-aware replication
• Use cases
▪ Disaster recovery, backup, and archive
▪ Migration
Region 1 Region 2
SnapMirror
SnapMirror
SnapMirror
SnapMirror

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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Backups
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• Volume level snapshot-based backups maintained on
separate storage
▪ Leverages ONTAP backup architecture (SnapMirror Cloud)
▪ Part of the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP service
• Backups are block-level incremental forever
• Preserve ONTAP storage efficiencies
• Created automatically on a daily-basis or user-initiated
• Restore operation creates a new volume from backup
▪ Restore target can only be an FSx for ONTAP file system
• FSx for ONTAP backup and restore operations can also be
managed through the AWS Backup service

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Disaster Recovery
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Writeable
clone
Source Destination
Read-only
Read-write Mirror
Snapsh
ot
copies
Snapsh
ot
copies
• All source snapshots are replicated
• An exact replica is maintained on destination
• Updates occur based on a schedule
▪ The schedule selected defines the RPO
▪ Minimum of one-minute intervals
• During normal operations, destination can be
accessed in read-only
▪ Writeable clones can be created from snapshots for
DR testing
• During failover, destination is “activated”, and
read-write access is allowed
• Replication direction can be reversed to facilitate
failback
Normal
operatio
ns
Failover
Read-write
Unavailable Broken
Snapsh
ot
copies
Snapsh
ot
copies
Source Destination

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Backup and Archive
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• Only selected snapshots are replicated
• Different snapshot retention is maintained on
destination
• Updates occur based on a schedule
▪ SnapMirror transfers the selected snapshot copies that
have been made since the last update
• Destination can be accessed in read-only forever
▪ Cannot be failed over to
▪ Writeable clones can be created from snapshots
• Snapshots and individual files can be replicated back for
recovery purposes
Source
Read
only
Read
write Vault
Snapshot
copies
Selected
snapshot
copies
Snapshots and
individual
files recovery
Writeable
clone
Destination

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Application-aware Protection
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NetApp SnapCenter Overview
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Applications
Data fabric powered by NetApp
Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Faster backup
and recovery
Centralize
management
Efficient copy
and data
management
Enhanced
Hybrid cloud
NetApp® Supported Custom Supported
Infrastructure
Do more, faster
Improve productivity
Deliver value faster
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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NetApp SnapCenter Key Features
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Faster and more
frequent backups
Filesystem-based Snapshot™
copies integrated with
application ecosystem
Lower TCO
Policy-driven backup and
recovery, and copy
management
Scalable and performant
Easy to manage with UI
or automation tool
Enhanced reporting
Faster restores
Application-aware
backups

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Use Case: DR of SQL database instances from one AWS region to another
region – block-level replication
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SQL on EC2
Application
EC2 instances
AWS Cloud
VPC Prod
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Transaction
log
volume(s)
Database
volume(s)
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 1
Production Region
Standby SQL on EC2 Application
EC2 instances
Transaction
log
volume(s)
Database
volume(s)
Production Standby
..hourly1
..hourly.n
..hourly1
..hourly.n
VPC DR
DR Region
Volume
SnapMirror
After
SnapCenter
app-consistent
backup
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

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Migration
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Migrating to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
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AWS
DataSync
NetApp
Cloud Sync
Standard
copy tools
AWS
Snowball
NetApp
SnapMirror
ONTAP
File Object
File Object
File Object
File

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On-Prem NetApp to FSxN Migration
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Customer VPC – 10.10.0.0/16
Availability Zone 1
AWS Cloud
FSx ONTAP Filesystem
FSx ONTAP Filesystem
Mount BlueXP
Availability Zone 2
FSX iSCSI, NFS and SMB volumes
FSx iSCSI, NFS and SMB volumes
Corporate
data center
Virtual iSCSI, NFS and SMB volumes
SnapMirror
Mount
Replication
AWS EC2
AWS EC2
Server
AWS Direct Connect
or Site-to-Site VPN
Amazon FSx for
NetApp ONTAP

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Resources
• NetApp landing page – Why SAP HANA on AWS?
• AWS documentation – SAP HANA on AWS with FSxN
• Video: How to scale, clone, and customize SAP deployments with AWS
Launch Wizard
• NetApp landing page – VMC on AWS powered by NetApp
• AWS blogpost – FSxN integration with VMC on AWS
• Reference Architecture – connecting FSxN to VMC on AWS
• FSxN pricing calculator
• VMC + FSxN TCO calculator
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Thank you!
© 2023, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates.
Lily Jang
yjang@amazon.com
Varun Seth
varun.seth@netapp.com