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OnCommand Cloud Manager:
Simplifying Your Hybrid Cloud
Data Management
KEY BENEFITS
• Streamline the deployment,
management, and tracking
of your enterprise-class Data
ONTAP® storage resources in
or near the public cloud
• Centralized management for
multiple cloud providers and
storage tiers based on Data
ONTAP
• Enabling storage admins
to centrally audit and track
resources and spending per
department
The Challenge
The prominence of the public cloud
in today’s IT ecosystem has brought
new challenges to enterprise admins
and architects. For many, the decision
to utilize the cloud has already been
decided, often by directive, and now
come the bigger questions around
the “what,” “when,” and “how.” What
applications should we run in the
cloud? When should we move them?
How do we get our data there?
This is rarely an all-or-nothing decision.
Applications and data will reside in your
data center and cloud environments
in a true hybrid fashion. In this hybrid
cloud environment, your storage
management tools should help you
address your day-to-day needs and
help determine placement to costeffectively utilize the resources available
to you in the cloud, near the cloud, or
on your premises.
On top of this, the raw storage that is
available in hyperscale cloud environments
is much like DAS storage in a server. It is raw storage that highly is susceptible to
loss. To trust cloud storage environments,
you need additional features such as
RAID, replication, or snapshots to make
sure that your data remains in case of
an outage. Again, your data management
tools will need to be there to track and
control your storage environment to meet
compliance and security for your data.
OnCommand Cloud Manager
OnCommand® Cloud Manager provides
management for your Data ONTAP
hybrid cloud storage environment,
including NetApp® Cloud ONTAP and
NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for
Cloud. Cloud Manager eases the day-to-day requirements of your Cloud
ONTAP and NPS for Cloud environments,
including configuring, provisioning and
monitoring each of your active virtual
and hardware storage nodes. It also is
the deployment environment for Cloud
ONTAP that offers a point-and-click
installation and automatically selects
and assigns resources to each instance.
When deploying Cloud ONTAP, Cloud
Manager will use your AWS credentials
to select the EC2 virtual machine and
the EBS storage necessary to run the
instance of your choice. With visibility
into the actual resources consumed
by each instance, Cloud Manager
can monitor and track cloud resource
utilization, which can later be used in
assessing your environment.
To best fit your individual needs, Cloud Manager can either operate
as a cloud-resident Amazon machine
instance (AMI) that gets deployed
directly from the Amazon Marketplace or be deployed in your data center. If
you are a registered NetApp customer,
you can go to the NetApp Support site
and download Cloud Manager to deploy
OnCommand® Management Suite
System Manager
Unified Manager
Insight
CLOUD MANAGER
Manage and monitor cloud storage on-site or directly in the cloud.
CIFS/NFS
AWS
Data Center
iSCSI
CIFS
NFS
Block
Cloud
ONTAP
®
SnapMirror
Figure 1) Data management in the hybrid cloud.
Figure 2) Cloud Manager.
in your data center. It provides you the
flexibility to manage each of your cloud
environments from a central location.
App Location
Solution
Application Properties
On-premises
FAS/E-Series
Application usage pattern and resource requirements
are well known with longer term usage.
Cloud Manager key features
• Simplifies configuration and
deployment of Cloud ONTAP
• Provides central point of control for all Cloud ONTAP instances
• Makes automated recommendations
for buying new storage as needed
• Provides Cloud ONTAP resource cost
monitoring and, when combined with
OnCommand Insight, can monitor
your entire hybrid storage environment
• Eases license and entitlement
management
• Facilitates hybrid environments that
include Cloud ONTAP and NetApp
Private Storage
Near the cloud
NPS for Cloud
Application has high governance requirements
and/or high performance and capacity but with
variable usage patterns.
In the cloud
Cloud ONTAP
For new or unknown application requirements
or applications with rapid deployment of storage
requirements to accommodate varied workloads.
Managing your hybrid cloud
storage environment
Hyperscale cloud providers offer many
functions, including infrastructure as
a service (IaaS), that provide customers
raw server and storage resources to
use as they see fit. For the storage,
management should be done in a way
that answers your key concerns and
that best resembles how you manage
your data on premises. Cloud Manager
provides the interface that ties your
hybrid cloud storage together.
Addressing Resource Cost
When determining the infrastructure
that best fits your application and
Table 1) Application deployment options.
economic needs, NetApp offers a
wide variety of options from which to
choose. These options range from onpremises storage systems to the cloud,
with both near the cloud FAS storage
systems and storage that is directly
in the cloud with Cloud ONTAP. Cloud
Manager simplifies the deployment of
your environment, whether it be for Cloud
ONTAP pay-as-you-go environments in
which you pay by the hour, longer term
subscription deployments, or your purchased NPS solutions. Choosing which
one of these models to use requires a
basic guideline for the application pattern,
as shown in Table 1.
Cloud ONTAP takes it to the next level
by tracking your cloud resource usage
to help you better determine where
your application should reside. Cloud
Manager combined with OnCommand
Insight and NetApp provides a complete
monitoring environment for both your
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on-premises and cloud storage that
tracks the usage and cost structure of
each location to fully gauge the costeffectiveness of your environment.
Does your usage pattern on premises
point out an application that could be
more cost-effectively moved to the
cloud? Are you running applications on
cloud resources that are more stable
and should be moved to NPS storage
or on premises? NetApp OnCommand
management tools help answer these
questions for you.
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