Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to decrease your file system’s solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity, enabling you to run project-based workloads with varying active working set sizes more efficiently. You can provision SSD capacity upfront to meet peak usage needs—for periodic reporting, analytics, or large-scale data ingestion and processing—and then easily decrease SSD capacity to optimize resource utilization and reduce storage costs.
An FSx for ONTAP file system offers two storage tiers: a provisioned high-performance SSD tier for your active working set, and a fully elastic capacity pool cost-optimized for infrequently accessed data. Previously, you could increase a file system’s SSD capacity to meet your workload’s growing active working set but decreasing SSD capacity required migrating to a file system with smaller SSD capacity incurring administrative overhead and tolerating application downtime. Starting today, you can decrease your file system’s provisioned SSD capacity in-place with just a few clicks in the Amazon FSx console. You can deliver optimal performance to serve peak usage for workloads with varying high-performance storage requirements, including Electronic Design Automation jobs like chip fabrication and circuit
simulation, and Media & Entertainment tasks like video editing and transcoding. Once data processing in SSD storage is complete, and results have been archived, you can decrease SSD capacity to optimize resource utilization. You can even accelerate large-scale data migrations by provisioning SSD capacity to temporarily accommodate more data in SSD, ensuring faster data ingestion, subsequently decreasing SSD capacity after data has been tiered to the capacity pool to optimize storage costs.
You can decrease SSD storage capacity on all FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems in all AWS Regions where FSx for ONTAP second-generation file systems are available. For more information, see the FSx for ONTAP user guide.
Categories: general:products/amazon-fsx-netapp-ontap
Source: Amazon Web Services
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