Learn how Officeworks leverages NetApp’s Cloud Data Services to simplify storage and radically reduce costs. Greg Rose, Principal Systems Engineer at Officeworks, will share first-hand experience using Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS and Amazon S3 with NetApp Cloud Volumes. See how Officeworks instantly creates multi-protocol persistent storage volumes, clones data for easy Dev & Test, utilizes de-duplication to reduce volume sizes, and automatically tiers their data to Amazon S3. Leveraging Officeworks’ techniques with NetApp’s Cloud Volumes, you too will get the most from your cloud investments.

1. S U M M I T
S Y DNEY

2. Lessons From Officeworks
on Optimising
Persistent Storage on AWS
Adam Ginsberg, NetApp Chief Architect
Greg Rose, Officeworks, Principal Systems Engineer
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Persistent
Storage
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Adam Ginsberg
ginsberg@netapp.com

5. NetApp
Cloud Data Services
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Cloning
( kləʊnɪŋ )
Accelerate development with
multiple writable copies in 1 second

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“Cloud Volumes drastically lowered our cloud
cost and server spend. My team was able to
lower the number of development systems by
10 times and drop our total deployment time to
mere minutes. For a DevOps shop, Cloud
Volumes takes our productivity to a whole new
level.”
Jeremy Goodrum, Vice President of Engineering, Wirestorm

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Multi-Protocol
( mʌlti - prəʊtəkɒl )
All your stuff in one place

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Storage Efficiency
( stɔːrɪdʒ ɪˈfɪʃ(ə)nsi )
big whoop-de-dupe

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“Cloud Volumes allowed us to transition to the cloud
seamlessly. It enabled us to easily migrate our data
and bring the benefits of our onsite NetApp data
management and data protection to AWS.”
-Brock Cremer, Infrastructure Services Delivery
Manager, Monash University
25% Reduction in storage costs

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Data Mobility
( deɪtə moˈbɪlətɪ )
Move data from here to there.
Anywhere.

12. Data Workflow (Actual)
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App
NFS Volume
Control-M
AFT
1
2
ec2
AWS Sydney Region
AZ: ap-southeast-2a
ebs
2
3
VPC Endpoint for S3
4
4
5
5
1. Ctrl-M trigger AFT
2. AFT Read File from NFS
AFT Upload File to EBS
3. Ctrl-M trigger ec2 Agent
4. ec2 Agent Read File from EBS
ec2 Agent Write File to S3
5. Lambda Reads from S3
Lambda Writes to Postgres RDS
2
Data Flow WITHOUT NetApp

13. Data Workflow (with Snap Mirror)
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NFS Volume
1
ec2
AWS Sydney Region
AZ: ap-southeast-2a
1. EC2 Reads using NFSv4
EC2 Writes to Postgres RDS
1
Data Flow WITH NetApp

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Tiering
( tɪəɪŋ )
Champagne for adults,
juice for kids.
Hot
Cold

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Kubernetes Service
( kyo͞ obərntēs sərvəs )
Manage containers seamlessly
On-Prem, next-to-cloud, in-the-cloud

16. Greg Rose
Principal Systems Engineer

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You know who we are,
but did you know ?

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Our journey with AWS
• Started small, dramatic growth
• We consume a wide spectrum of AWS offerings
• AWS allows us to make bigger things happen
for Customers and Team Members
• The journey continues every day

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Why we use Cloud Volumes ?
Let me tell me you about our journey
Gauge Warm to Cool
How hot’s that data…
OR

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Use case 1: Cost effective archival storage
On-Premises
NetApp FAS Volume
storage
Cold Archive Data
NetApp Data Fabric
SnapMirror® or
Direct Copy
Amazon
EBS
Amazon
S3
NetApp Cloud
Volumes ONTAP
Volume
Take advantage of
Fabric Pool to leverage
Amazon S3

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Use case 2:
Cost effective Dev/Test and Share DR
On-Premises
NetApp FAS Volume
storage
NetApp Data Fabric
SnapMirror® Amazon
EBS
Amazon
S3
NetApp Cloud
Volumes ONTAP
Volume

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Use case 2:
Cost effective Dev/Test and Share DR
On-Premises
NetApp FAS Volume
storage
NetApp Data Fabric
SnapMirror® Amazon
EBS
Amazon
S3
NetApp Cloud
Volumes ONTAP
Volume

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Use case 3: Putting data where it
needs to be (Heating up cold data)
On-Premises
NetApp FAS Volume
storage
NetApp Data Fabric
SnapMirror®
Amazon
EBS
Amazon
S3
NetApp Cloud
Volumes ONTAP
Volume
Clones

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What do we gain by using Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
• Cost effective cold data storage
• Cloud Volumes ONTAP scales to our needs
• Utilises existing tools and patterns
• Allows us to put data where we want it to go
• Feature rich

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Pro-tips
• Think about how you consume your data
• You can turn off Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances
when not in use
• NetApp has excellent resources to collaborate with
• Use community support and free tools
• Use NetApp SnapMirror throttling to avoid
congestion on your AWS links

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Thank you.
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