Migrating Windows-based Enterprise Applications to AWS, presented by NetApp.

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Migrating Windows-based
Enterprise Applications to AWS
Kevin Hill, Cloud Solutions Architect, NetApp
Paul Brown, Director, Group IT Systems, Cordant Group PLC

2. About Us
A leader in recruitment and integrated
facility services since 1957
• 192 UK Group locations
• 5,200 clients
• 36 industry sectors.
• £609 million turnover in the most
recent year
• Sugarman acquisition adding 20
locations across the world
$6.3 B
FY14 Revenue
#1
Storage OS
Market Share
#1
U.S. Government, Germany,
Australia Market Share
#2
Open Networked Storage
Market Share
DC Q4 2014 Storage Hardware Market Share March 2015: Open Networked Market Share Branded – Open Networked = combined NAS and SAN - Revenue and Capacity for 2014
Federal agencies must report all contracts valued at $3,000 or more. Based on FPDS-NG reports FY2011-2013, NetApp is the top storage provider.
IDC Names NetApp Data ONTAP as the #1 Branded Storage Operating System Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 2014 Q2, September 2014
1+ Exabyte-Qtr
FY14 Average Storage Shipped

3. Agenda
1. Changing IT Model
– Data center challenges
– Considering the cloud
2. Making the Transition
– Top issues considered with IT transition
– Walkthrough of the architectures
– Cordant Group results & benefits
3. Future plans
4. NetApp Cloud Solutions
– Who is NetApp
– Overview of NetApp solutions used by Cordant Group

4. Changing IT Model

5. Data Center Challenges
Through strategic acquisitions, Cordant
Group grew from 4 to 12 data centers
in two years
– Scattered across the UK
– Each location comprising application
servers, file storage and associated
DR solutions
– Costly to maintain in both time &
money

6. Data Center Challenges
Infrastructure consolidation only
went so far
– Reduced infrastructure from 12 to 3
(Primary, secondary, and DR sites)
• Via VMware virtualization and
NetApp enterprise storage
• CIFS datastores and NFS storage
plus Citrix Provisioning Services
Datastores (for XenApp 6.5)
– Still had challenges with scalability
• Only scale to available rack space

7. Changing IT Model: Considering the Cloud
• Needed a more flexible IT environment
– Scalability
– Regional coverage
– Application uptime flexibility to manage cost
• Cloud provider needed to be stable and trusted
• Require local provider data centers to meet EU
regulatory mandates
• The Choice:

8. Making the Transition

9. Top Focus Areas Moving to AWS
• Application requirements
– Applications: Citrix, Legacy Applications, SQL, File Storage
– Data Format: NFS & CIFS
• Minimize application impacts
– Find solution that does not require a complete overhaul of
applications
– No direct replacement for data format in cloud

10. Multi-data center solution for availability and protection
Pre-Cloud Application Architecture
Data Center 1 Data Center 2
London & Hillingdon Data Centers
Data Center 1
iSCSI
NFS
CIFS
Replicate Data
(SnapMirror®)
Data Center 2
iSCSI NFS CIFS
Backup/Archive
Location

11. Data Storage Technology Testing
• Started with off-the-shelf AWS capabilities
– SQL Database  RDS
• Data format compatibility troubles
• Required heavy application changes to use RDS
• Shifted focus to external solutions
– NetApp CIFS  Microsoft DFS
• DFS environment had limitations
• Increased sysadmin support
– NetApp Data ONTAP  NetApp Cloud ONTAP
• Provided familiar NFS environment that allowed attaching iSCSI attached
local drives to support virtual SQL instances
• Integrated SQL tools allowed data protection schema to remain

12. EBS EBS EBS
Expand your storage options in the cloud
NetApp Cloud ONTAP
Data Center
 NetApp clustered Data ONTAP on EC2
 Available directly from AWS Marketplace
 Enterprise storage in minutes
 Same capabilities as data center storage
 Multiprotocol, storage efficiency,
Zero footprint snapshots and clones
SnapMirror®
NetApp OnCommand®
Management Suite Insight
Unified Manager
System Manager
Cloud Manager
Manage and monitor cloud storage both in the cloud and on-site
iSCSI
NFS
CIFS

13. Multi-region application coverage
Applications Architecture: AWS
AWS Availability Zone 1 AWS Availability Zone 2
AWS
Region 2
EUCentral
AWS Region 1 (EU West)
Replicate Data
(SnapMirror®)EBS EBS
EBS
iSCSI
NFS
CIFSiSCSI
NFS
CIFS

14. Results
• Citrix farm running Microsoft SQL on AWS leveraging data protection
with SnapDrive and SnapManager for SQL
• Multi-AZ production in EUWest backed up to EUCentral
• Production environment now capable of cloud scale
• Cloud ONTAP simplified
workload migration to AWS
– No application redesign
– Same data store formats
on CIFS and NFS
– Same data management
as data center storage

15. Future Plans

16. Future AWS Direction
• Acquisitions expanding site footprint to Americas, AU, APAC, etc.
• AWS data centers provide needed GEO coverage

17. Reduce cost of backups with AltaVault and Amazon S3/Amazon Glacier
Future Architecture Direction: Back Up
AWS Availability Zone 1 AWS Availability Zone 2
Glacier
AWS
Region 2
EUCentral
S3
AWS Region 1 (EU West)
AltaVault AMI
Replicate Data
(SnapMirror®)
CIFS
CIFS
EBS EBS
iSCSI
NFS
NFS
CIFS
CIFS
iSCSI
NFS
CIFS

18. NetApp Cloud Solutions

19. NetApp Storage for the Cloud
Hyperscale Cloud
Providers
Private
Cloud
Cloud Service
Providers
DATA
NetApp Storage
Systems & Solutions
FAS
FlexArray
StorageGRID
WebScale
E-Series
NPS for Cloud
NetApp AltaVault

20. Test drive NetApp solutions for free
If your customer is interested in Step 1 - Quick Spin Step 2 - Longer Evaluation
Cloud ONTAP for AWS
 1 Hr. Test Drive – Free
 http://aws.amazon.com/testdrive/netap
p/
 14 day trial – Free
 Uses AMI on the AWS Marketplace
 https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/Cloud
ONTAP Explore
NetApp Private Storage for AWS
 1 Hr. Test Drive – Free
 http://aws.amazon.com/testdrive/netap
p/
 14 day trial – Storage Free
 Uses NetApp Cloud Lab
 www.poc.netapp.com
AltaVault Appliance
 90 day trial – Free
 Use downloadable virtual appliance
 Bring your own backup software
 http://www.netapp.com/AltaVaultTrial
AltaVault AMI
 Use AMI on the AWS Marketplace
 Bring your own backup software
 https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/AltaVault
POC.netapp.com

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