FSx for ONTAP is a first party enterprise-grade cloud storage service available on AWS that provides highly reliable, scalable, high-performing and feature-rich file storage built on the popular NetApp ONTAP file system.
FSx for ONTAP provides seamless deployment and management. No storage expertise is required to get started. To further simplify monitoring, an AWS lamdba function (to automate resizing of total storage capacity, volume size or LUN size based on threshold) can be used. This document provides a step by step guide to create an automated setup that monitors FSx for ONTAP at regular intervals, notifies and resizes when a user-specified threshold is crossed and notifies the administrator of the resizing activity.
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The solution provides the following features:
- Ability to monitor:
- Usage of overall Storage Capacity of FSx for ONTAP
- Usage of each volume (thin provisioned / thick provisioned)
- Usage of each LUN (thin provisioned / thick provisioned)
- Ability to resize any of the above when a user-defined threshold is breached
- Alerting mechanism to receive usage warning and resizing notifications via email
- Ability to delete snapshots older than user-defined threshold
- Ability to get a list of FlexClone volumes and snapshots associated
- Ability to run the checks at a regular interval
- Ability to use the solution with or without internet access
- Ability to deploy the solution manually or using AWS CloudFormation Template
Before you begin, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
- FSx for ONTAP is deployed
- Private subnet with connectivity to FSx for ONTAP
- "fsxadmin" password has been set for FSx for ONTAP
The documentation for the solution architecture used and the deployment guidelines are available at https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/netapp-solutions/automation/fsxn_monitoring_resizing_automation.html
Note: The solution is provided as-is. Please test before deploying to production
- Dhruv Tyagi - NetApp Solutions Engineering Team
- Vedant Sethia - NetApp Solutions Engineering Team
- Niyaz Mohamed - NetApp Solutions Engineering Team