Category: HAQM FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Introduction This blog post demonstrates how to use HAQM FSx for Windows File Server(FSxW) as persistent SMB storage for Windows applications running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. The solution addresses common challenges with configuring persistent storage and enables direct access to SMB shares within AWS Elastic Beanstalk Windows environments while maintaining application performance, flexibility, and security […]

In this blog post, we will review advantages and disadvantages of the two storage access protocols, iSCSI and SMB, offered by HAQM FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP). For comparison purposes, we will use Microsoft SQL Server on Windows. We will provide recommendations for selecting the optimal storage access protocol for your specific scenario. […]

In this blog post, we introduce a strategy for scaling Microsoft SQL Server deployments on HAQM Web Services (AWS) that uses HAQM FSx, a service that provides fully managed, high-performance file systems in the cloud. This strategy increases SQL Server performance on AWS, providing 2 to 3 times as many Transactions per Minute (TPM) as […]

In this blog post, we will walk you through the steps required to deploy a SQL Server Always On Failover Cluster (FCI) using AWS Launch Wizard, with HAQM FSx for NetApp ONTAP providing you with a shared storage solution. Introduction In our previous blog post, we described how to set up SQL Server FCI with […]

Back in 2020, we first published a blog post on how Windows pods on HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Services (HAQM EKS) could access HAQM FSx for Windows File Server as persistent storage. This was accomplished by using AWS Systems Manager to automate the domain join. In the background, a feature from SMB protocol called “SMB Global […]

UPDATE: On 26th May 2022, AWS Launch Wizard added support to SQL Server deployments using HAQM FSx for NetApp ONTAP. AWS Launch Wizard uses a simple console wizard to simplify the deployment of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) with HAQM FSx for NetApp ONTAP. To learn more about using AWS Launch Wizard, visit the […]