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Recent changes in BlueXP
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Learn about the most recent changes to the cloud services that are part of the BlueXP platform. For more details, go to the full set of release notes for each individual service.
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Introduction of BlueXP
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Administrative features
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This section describes new features related to BlueXP administration features: Accounts, Connectors, cloud provider credentials, and more.
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10 September 2023
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Connector 3.9.33
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+When you create a Connector in AWS from BlueXP, you can now search within the Key Pair field to more easily find the key pair that you want to use with the Connector instance.
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2 July 2023
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Connector 3.9.31
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+You can now discover on-premises ONTAP clusters from the My estate tab (previously My Opportunities )
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+If you’re using the Connector in an Azure Government region, you should ensure that the Connector can contact the following endpoint:
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https://occmclientinfragov.azurecr.us
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This endpoint is required to manually install the Connector and to upgrade the Connector and its Docker components.
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As a result of this change, a Connector in an Azure Government region no longer contacts the following endpoint:
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4 June 2023
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Connector 3.9.30
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+When you open a NetApp support case from the Support Dashboard, BlueXP now opens the case using the NetApp Support Site account that is associated with your BlueXP login. BlueXP previously used the NetApp Support Site account associated with the entire BlueXP account.
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As part of this change, support registration for a BlueXP account is now done through the NetApp Support Site account that’s associated with a user’s BlueXP login. Previously, support registration was done through an NSS account associated with the entire BlueXP account. As a result, other BlueXP users will not see the same support registration status if they have not associated a NetApp Support Site account with their BlueXP login. If you previously registered your BlueXP account for support, then your registration status is still valid. You just need to add a user-level NSS account to see the status.
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+You can now search for documentation from within BlueXP. Search results now provide links to content on docs.netapp.com and kb.netapp.com, which might help answer a question that you have.
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+The Connector now enables you to add and manage Azure storage accounts from BlueXP.
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+The Connector is now supported in the following AWS regions:
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+The Connector is now supported in the following Azure regions:
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Azure Blob storage
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5 June 2023
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Ability to add new storage accounts from BlueXP
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You have had the ability to view Azure Blob Storage on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new storage accounts and change properties for existing storage accounts directly from BlueXP. See how to add new Azure Blob storage accounts .
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Azure NetApp Files
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Support for volume templates
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A new Application Templates service enables you to set up a volume template for Azure NetApp Files. The template should make your job easier because certain volume parameters will already be defined in the template, such as capacity pool, size, protocol, VNet and subnet where the volume should reside, and more. When a parameter is already predefined, you can just skip to the next volume parameter.
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Dynamically change service levels
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You can now dynamically change the service level for a volume to meet workload needs and optimize your costs. The volume is moved to the other capacity pool with no impact to the volume.
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Azure NetApp Files set up and management
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Set up and manage Azure NetApp Files directly from Cloud Manager. After you create an Azure NetApp Files working environment, you can complete the following tasks:
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Cloud Manager enables you to create, delete, and restore volume snapshots. You can also create new capacity pools and specify their service levels.
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Amazon FSx for ONTAP
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Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in three new AWS Regions: Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad).
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+When creating a working environment , you can specify the start time for the weekly 30-minute maintenance window to ensure maintenance does not conflict with critical business activities.
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Amazon S3 storage
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Ability to add new buckets from BlueXP
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You have had the ability to view Amazon S3 buckets on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new buckets and change properties for existing buckets directly from BlueXP. See how to add new Amazon S3 buckets .
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Backup and recovery
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11 September 2023
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New policies management for ONTAP data
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This release includes the ability within the UI to create custom Snapshot policies, replication policies, and policies for backups to object storage for ONTAP data.
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Support for restoring files and folder from volumes in ONTAP S3 object storage
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Previously, you couldn’t restore files and folders using the “Browse & Restore” feature when volumes were backed up to ONTAP S3 object storage. This release removes that restriction.
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Backup and recovery now can back up both FlexVol and FlexGroup volumes that are configured using either SnapLock Compliance or SnapLock Enterprise protection modes. Your clusters must be running ONTAP 9.14 or greater for this support. Backing up FlexVol volumes using SnapLock Enterprise mode has been supported since ONTAP version 9.11.1. Earlier ONTAP releases provide no support for backing up SnapLock protection volumes.
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Because of an important security enhancement, your Connector now requires outbound internet access to an additional endpoint in order to manage backup and recovery resources within your public cloud environment. If this endpoint has not been added to the "allowed" list in your firewall you’ll see an error in the UI about "Service Unavailable" or "Failed to determine service status":
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Now you can use an ONTAP system which has been configured for the Simple Storage Service (S3) to back up volumes to object storage. This is supported for both on-premises ONTAP systems and Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems. This configuration is supported in cloud deployments and in on-premises locations without internet access (a "private" mode deployment).
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Now you can include existing Snapshots from a protected volume in your backup files
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In the past you’ve had the ability to include existing Snapshot copies from read-write volumes in your initial backup file to object storage (instead of starting with the most recent Snapshot copy). Existing Snapshot copies from read-only volumes (data protection volumes) were not included in the backup file. Now you can choose to include older Snapshot copies in the backup file for "DP" volumes.
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The backup wizard displays a prompt at the end of the backup steps where you can select these "existing Snapshots".
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BlueXP backup and recovery no longer supports auto backup of volumes added in the future
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Previously you could check a box in the backup wizard to apply the selected backup policy to all future volumes added to the cluster. This feature has been removed based on user feedback and lack of usage of this feature. You’ll need to manually enable backups for any new volumes added to the cluster.
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The Job Monitoring page now provides more information related to the 3-2-1 backup strategy. The service also provides additional alert notifications related to the backup strategy.
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The "Backup lifecycle" Type filter has been renamed to "Retention". Use this filter to track the backup lifecycle and to identify the expiration of all backup copies. The "Retention" job type captures all Snapshot deletion jobs initiated on a volume that is protected by BlueXP backup and recovery.
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BlueXP backup and recovery now includes the ability to schedule and create Snapshot copies and replicated volumes
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BlueXP backup and recovery now enables you to implement a 3-2-1 strategy where you can have 3 copies of your source data on 2 different storage systems along with 1 copy in the cloud. After activation, you’ll have a:
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When you create backup files in object storage, by default, the backup and recovery service will create the buckets in object storage for you. You can create the buckets yourself if you want to use a certain name or assign special properties. If you want to create your own bucket, you must create it before starting the activation wizard. Learn how to create your object storage buckets .
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Classification
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Small and medium deployments temporarily unavailable
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When you deploy an instance of BlueXP classification in AWS, the option to select Deploy > Configuration and choose a small or medium-sized instance is unavailable at this time. You can still deploy the instance using the large instance size by selecting Deploy > Deploy .
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Apply tags on up to 100,000 items from the Investigation Results page
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In the past you could only apply tags to a single page at a time in the Investigation Results page (20 items). Now you can select all items in the Investigation Results pages and apply tags to all the items - up to 100,000 items at a time. See how .
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BlueXP classification used to identify duplicated files only when files were 50 MB or larger. Now duplicated files starting with 1 MB can be identified. You can use the Investigation page filters "File Size" along with "Duplicates" to see which files of a certain size are duplicated in your environment.
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Two new types of German personal data are identified by BlueXP classification
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BlueXP classification can identify and categorize files that contain the following types of data:
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Now you can upgrade to a newer version of BlueXP classification even if it is not sequential. This means that the current limitation of upgrading BlueXP classification by one version at a time is no longer required. This feature is relevant starting from version 1.24 onwards.
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The BlueXP classification API is now available
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The BlueXP classification API enables you to perform actions, create queries, and export information about the data you are scanning. The interactive documentation is available using Swagger. The documentation is separated into multiple categories, including Investigation, Compliance, Governance, and Configuration. Each category is a reference to the tabs in the BlueXP classification UI.
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6 June 2023 (version 1.23)
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Japanese is now supported when searching for data subject names
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Ubuntu is now a supported Linux distribution on which you can install BlueXP classification
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 and 8.7 are no longer supported with new BlueXP classification installations
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These versions are not supported with new deployments because Red Hat no longer supports Docker, which is a prerequisite. If you have an existing BlueXP classification machine running on RHEL 8.6 or 8.7, NetApp will continue to support your configuration.
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You can enable file access audit logs to be collected on your BlueXP classification system for file access events detected on volumes in your working environments. BlueXP classification can capture the following types of FPolicy events and the users who performed the actions on your files: Create, Read, Write, Delete, Rename, Change owner/permissions, and Change SACL/DACL. See how to monitor and manage file access events .
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Data Sense BYOL licenses are now supported in dark sites
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Cloud Volumes ONTAP
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The following changes were introduced with the 3.9.33 release of the Connector.
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The L48s_v3 and L64s_v3 instance types are now supported with Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Azure for single node and high-availability pair deployments with shared managed disks in single and multiple availability zones, starting with the 9.13.1 release. These instance types support Flash Cache.
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BlueXP can now deploy and manage the Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1 General Availability release in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
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You can now manage Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud directly from BlueXP:
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Cloud ops
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Navigation between Cloud Manager and Spot
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It’s now easier to navigate between Cloud Manager and Spot.
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A new Storage Operations section in Spot enables you to navigate directly to Cloud Manager. After you’re done, you can get back to Spot from the Compute tab in Cloud Manager.
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Introducing the Compute service
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By leveraging Spot’s Cloud Analyzer , Cloud Manager can now provide a high-level cost analysis of your cloud compute spending and identify potential savings. This information is available from the Compute service in Cloud Manager.
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Copy and sync
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Exclude files by regex
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Users now have the option to exclude files using regex.
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Users may now add AWS S3 access keys and secret keys when creating an Azure data broker.
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Users now have additional options for copying ACL information in CIF and NFS relationships. When creating or managing a sync relationship, you can copy files only, copy ACL information only, or copy files and ACL information.
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Upgrade Advisor
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You can access the Upgrade Advisor page for your default Watchlist or Dashboard using the Upgrade Advisor link. If you do not have a default Watchlist or Dashboard, clicking the link will redirect you to the Search page.
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The upgrade plan has been optimized to remove redundant upgrade steps, modify information and warnings, and simplify the backout plan. The common steps across all nodes in a cluster are consolidated and available under the General Information section. To view the improved plan, generate the upgrade plan using the steps mentioned in Upgrade the ONTAP version using upgrade plan .
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Storage Efficiency
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Sustainability dashboard
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Digital wallet
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Google Cloud private offers
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The BlueXP digital wallet now identifies Google Cloud Marketplace subscriptions that are associated with a private offer and shows the end date and term of the subscription. This enhancement enables you to verify that you’ve successfully accepted the private offer and to validate its terms.
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Email notifications
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If you configure your notification settings, you can receive email notifications when your BYOL licenses are about to expire (a "Warning" notification) or if they have already expired (an "Error" notification).
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Disaster recovery
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BlueXP disaster recovery Beta is a cloud-based disaster recovery service that automates disaster recovery workflows. Initially, with the BlueXP disaster recovery Beta, you can protect your on-premises, NFS-based VMware workloads running NetApp storage to VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS with Amazon FSx for ONTAP.
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E-Series systems
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Support for E-Series
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You can now discover your E-Series storage systems directly from BlueXP. Discovering E-Series systems provides you with a complete view of data across your hybrid multicloud.
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Support for Global File Cache on Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems deployed in Google Cloud
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A new "Edge Cache" license is available when deploying a Cloud Volumes ONTAP system in Google Cloud. You are entitled to deploy one Global File Cache Edge system for each 3 TiB of purchased capacity on the Cloud Volumes ONTAP system.
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24 October 2022 (version 2.1)
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This release provides the new features listed below. It also fixes the issues described in the Fixed Issues .
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Global File Cache is now available with any number of licenses
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The previous minimum requirement of 10 licenses, or 30 TB of storage, has been removed. One Global File Cache license will be issued for every 3 TB of storage.
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Support has been added for using an offline License Management Server
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An offline, or dark site, License Management Server (LMS) is most useful when the LMS does not have an internet connection for license validation with license sources. An internet connection and connection to license source is required during initial configuration. Once configured, the LMS instance can become dark. All Edges/Cores should have a connection with LMS for continuous validation of licenses.
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Edge instances can support additional concurrent users
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A single Global File Cache Edge instance can serve up to 500 users per dedicated physical Edge instance, and up to 300 users for dedicated virtual deployments. The maximum number of users used to be 400 and 200, respectively.
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Enhanced the Edge Sync feature in Optimus UI (Edge Configuration) to show all connected clients
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Google Cloud Storage
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10 July 2023
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Ability to add new buckets and manage existing buckets from BlueXP
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You have had the ability to view Google Cloud Storage buckets on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new buckets and change properties for existing buckets directly from BlueXP. See how to add new Google Cloud Storage buckets .
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Migration reports
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03 September 2023
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The updated BlueXP migration reports service provides updates to the report data. Reports now include allocated capacity.
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02 June 2023
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With the new BlueXP migration reports service, you can quickly identify the number of files, directories, symbolic links, hard links, depth and breadth of file system trees, largest files, and more in your storage landscape.
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With this information, you will know ahead that the process you want to use can handle your inventory efficiently and successfully.
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On-prem ONTAP clusters
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30 July 2023
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Create FlexGroup volumes
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If you’re managing a cluster with a Connector, you can now create FlexGroup volumes using the BlueXP API.
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2 July 2023
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Cluster discovery from My estate
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You can now discover on-premises ONTAP clusters from Canvas > My estate by selecting a cluster that BlueXP pre-discovered based on the ONTAP clusters that are associated with the email address for your BlueXP login.
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4 May 2023
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Enable BlueXP backup and recovery
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Upgrade ONTAP version image and hardware firmware
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Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can use System Manager (advanced view) to upgrade the ONTAP version image and hardware firmware. You can choose to receive automatic upgrades to stay up to date, or you can make manual updates from your local machine or a server that can be accessed using BlueXP. Learn more about upgrading ONTAP and firmware
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Operational resiliency
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02 April 2023
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Using the new BlueXP operational resiliency service and its automated IT operational risk remediation suggestions, you can implement suggested remediations before an outage or failure occurs.
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Operational resiliency is a service that helps you analyze alerts and events to maintain the health, uptime, and performance of services and solutions.
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3 March 2022
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Now you can build a Template to find specific working environments
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Using the "Find Existing Resources" action you can identify the working environment, and then use other template actions, such as creating a volume, to easily perform actions on existing working environments. Go here for details .
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Ability to create a Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA working environment in AWS
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9 February 2022
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Now you can build a Template to find specific existing volumes and then enable Cloud Backup
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Using the new "Find Resource" action you can identify all the volumes on which you want to enable Cloud Backup, and then use the Cloud Backup action to enable backup on those volumes.
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Current support is for volumes on Cloud Volumes ONTAP and on-premises ONTAP systems. Go here for details .
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31 October 2021
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Now you can tag your Sync relationships so you can group or categorize them for easy access
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Replication
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18 Sept 2022
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FSx for ONTAP to Cloud Volumes ONTAP
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You can now replicate data from an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system to Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
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31 July 2022
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FSx for ONTAP as the data source
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You can now replicate data from an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system to the following destinations:
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2 September 2021
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Support for Amazon FSx for ONTAP
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You can now replicate data from a Cloud Volumes ONTAP system or an on-premises ONTAP cluster to an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system.
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StorageGRID
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18 September 2022
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Support for StorageGRID
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You can now discover your StorageGRID systems directly from BlueXP. Discovering StorageGRID provides you with a complete view of data across your hybrid multicloud.
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Tiering
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9 August 2023
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Use a custom prefix for the bucket name where tiered data is stored
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In the past you needed to use the default "fabric-pool" prefix when defining the bucket name, for example, fabric-pool-bucket1 . Now you can use a custom prefix when naming your bucket. This functionality is available only when tiering data to Amazon S3. Learn more .
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Search for a cluster across all BlueXP Connectors
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If you are using multiple Connectors to manage all the storage systems in your environment, some clusters on which you want to implement tiering may be in different Connectors. If you are not sure which Connector is managing a certain cluster, you can search across all Connectors using BlueXP tiering. Learn more .
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4 July 2023
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Now you can adjust the bandwidth used to upload inactive data to object storage
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When you activate BlueXP tiering, ONTAP can use an unlimited amount of network bandwidth to transfer the inactive data from volumes in the cluster to object storage. If you notice that tiering traffic is affecting normal user workloads, you can throttle the amount of bandwidth that can be used during the transfer. Learn more .
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Tiering event for "low tiering" is displayed in the Notification Center
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The tiering event "Tier additional data from cluster <name> to object storage to increase your storage efficiency" now appears as a notification when a cluster is tiering less than 20% of its cold data - including clusters that are tiering no data.
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3 April 2023
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Licensing tab has been removed
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The Licensing tab has been removed from the BlueXP tiering interface. All licensing for Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscriptions are accessed from the BlueXP tiering On-Premises Dashboard now. There is also a link from that page to the BlueXP digital wallet so that you can view and manage any BlueXP tiering bring-your-own-licenses (BYOL).
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Tiering tabs have been renamed and have updated content
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The "Clusters Dashboard" tab has been renamed to "Clusters", and the "On-Prem Overview" tab has been renamed to "On-Premises Dashboard". These pages have added some information that will help you evaluate if you can optimize your storage space with additional tiering configuration.
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Volume caching
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04 June 2023
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Volume caching, a feature of ONTAP 9 software, is a remote caching capability that simplifies file distribution, reduces WAN latency by bringing resources closer to where your users and compute resources are, and lowers WAN bandwidth costs. Volume caching provides a persistent, writable volume in a remote place. You can use BlueXP volume caching to speed up access to data or to offload traffic from heavily accessed volumes. Cache volumes are ideal for read-intensive workloads, especially where clients need to access the same data repeatedly.
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With BlueXP volume caching, you have caching capabilities for the cloud, specifically for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and on-premises as working environments.
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Suggest changes
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