Cloud Resource Management - NetApp
Customer Data in the cloud – NetApp Products and Solution
Cloud Resource Management
- Cloud Manager - Cloud Insights - SPOT
NetApp Cloud Manager
Automate infrastructure and data management from the edge, to the core, to the cloud
Achieve the greatest business outcomes
Unified management for hybrid/multicloud environments
- Discover, deploy and manage
- Deliver unified services
- Consolidate and streamline operations
Simplified operations through a single pane of glass
- Single web-based UI centralizes management
- SaaS delivery model with easy-to-use GUI
- Includes Active IQ analytics
Flexible consumption through integrated Digital Wallet
- Flexible consumption model
- Easily manage costs, monitor spend, and optimize investment
- Enable services on-demand
Cloud Insights
Using Cloud Insights Queries
Cloud Insights includes an easy-to-use but powerful query mechanism that provides a set of filters and finders that allow you to quickly zero in on sets of resources.
To create a query like that shown in Figure 3, you simply add elements to the query from the available menu items. In this case, the query specifies: resources of type Virtual Machine; with more than 16 processors; with CPU utilization less than 5%; running on the AWS hypervisor. For the NetApp lab environment, this results in a manageable set of results. The results can be narrowed even further by adding elements to the query. The same general approach can be used to zero in on waste in any resource. For example, you might create a query to identify storage volumes on expensive, high-performance storage types that have low IOPS.
Once you’ve identified a list of wasted resources, there are several actions you can take:
- Export the list to a file and send it to the bill payer for follow-up.
- Drill down on each item in the list, then identify and contact the owner to find out if it can be reclaimed, right-sized, and so on.
- Tag each resource and monitor it over time to see if it remains underutilized
About Cloud Insights
NetApp makes it simple to get started with Cloud Insights. However, to get the most from your Cloud Insights environment, you should take some additional steps, including configuring annotations, queries, alerts, and dashboards specific to your environment:
Alerts
You can create performance policies to generate alerts when a resource exceeds a specific SLI. This feature enables you to proactively monitor your environment to detect problems before they affect your operations. You can easily create targeted alerts to detect problems while reducing the noise in your monitoring environment to avoid alert fatigue.
Dashboards
Cloud Insights comes with a default set of dashboards based on the data collectors that you enable. Each dashboard is designed to help you answer specific questions about your environment. Your team can also create highly tailored dashboard views to meet diverse monitoring and troubleshooting needs. You can start from an existing dashboard and customize it, or you can create entirely new dashboards from scratch using powerful tools to visualize available data.
Queries
Cloud Insights provides a powerful visual search engine with filters and finders that enable you to monitor and troubleshoot a hybrid cloud environment easily. You can search assets at a granular level based on various criteria, including annotations and performance metrics. You can also define rules to annotate resources based on these query results to automatically tag new assets without any manual intervention.
Annotations
Some information can’t be obtained through discovery alone. By using annotations, you can add custom metadata that is specific to your IT and business needs. Cloud Insights provides a set of default annotations that you can use, plus you can create your own annotations to slice monitoring data in other ways. Annotation rules can be created that assign the appropriate annotations to new resources as they come online automatically.
SPOT - Use More Cloud. For Less.
Going beyond cloud analytics and recommendations, Spot actively optimizes AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud deployments with SLA-backed availability, fully automated infrastructure management, and up to 90% cost reduction. With Spot, cloud consumers can effortlessly and affordably scale any workload, from stateful, single instances, to cloud-native clusters made up of thousands of nodes. Connect your cloud environment in just minutes, with Spot providing 24/7 support.
Cloud Analyzer
Gain comprehensive visibility into cloud cost-efficiency, cloud-native chargeback, anomalous spend, as well as optimization opportunities which can be implemented with just the click of a button
Ocean
Simplify infrastructure management for containerized workloads. With container-driven auto-scaling and intelligent rightsizing for container resource requirements, engineers can code more, while the ops team can literally “set and forget” the underlying spot instance cluster.
Eco
Automate reserved instance and savings plans lifecycle management. AI-driven analysis of cloud consumption coupled with automation of RI buying and selling in the AWS Marketplace.
Elastigroup
Deploy mission-critical workloads on spot instance clusters with ease and confidence. Advanced auto-scaling for predictable performance, plus integrations with dozens of the most popular cloud deployment services and tools, makes it a cinch to get started.
Managed Instance
Enjoy spot instance pricing without losing root, data, and IP persistence. This makes Managed Instance the ideal solution for stateful, single-instance workloads such as Databases, Dev Environments, Machine Learning, and more.