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NetApp Workload Factory

NetApp Workload Factory revolutionizes cloud workload deployment by eliminating complexity and reducing errors. This complimentary service delivers intelligent automation, seamless management, and optimized performance for workloads using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

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Netapp Workload Factory

NetApp Workload Factory revolutionizes cloud workload deployment by eliminating complexity and reducing errors.

This complimentary service delivers intelligent automation, seamless management, and optimized performance for workloads using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Designed around well-architected principles and industry best practices, it streamlines cloud service design, setup, and ongoing operations.

Supporting a range of critical workloads—including GenAI for AI applications, VMware environments for virtualization, enterprise databases for data management, and development workspaces—it accelerates deployment, enhances performance, strengthens protection, and cuts operational costs. With Workload Factory, organizations can launch workloads faster, plan more effectively, and maximize cloud efficiency.

Features and Benefits

The capabilities that set NetApp Workload Factory apart.

Key Benefits

Automate workload deployment

Automate workload deployment

Reduce migration errors

Reduce migration errors

Reduce migration planning time

Reduce migration planning time

Save on operational costs

Save on operational costs

Ensure optimal workload performance

Ensure optimal workload performance

Assess current environments

Assess current environments

Employ built-in best practices

Employ built-in best practices

Integrate with current workflows

Integrate with current workflows

With Workload Factory, you can:

Shorten migration planning

Shorten migration planning from days to hours

Reduce errors in infrastructure configurations

Reduce errors in infrastructure configurations by up to 90%

Save on infrastructure and operational costs

Save up to 50% on infrastructure and operational costs

Intelligent service for deploying workloads to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Focus on workload outcomes

Enables users to focus on the desired workload outcomes, not on the operations required to realize these outcomes

Automatic workload profiling

Automatically profiles workload requirements and assesses different resource options for cost, performance, security, and resilience

Well-architected principles

Uses well-architected principles with built-in best practices to plan, provision, launch and monitor workloads in the cloud

Actively monitor workload resources

Active resource and performance monitoring

Actively monitors resource use and performance to guide to the optimum scale—whether up, out, or down

Templates for repeatable actions

Uses templates to convert repeatable actions into API calls or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) snippets for seamless integration with existing orchestration workflows

Continuous monitoring

Continuously monitors to make sure workloads are meeting best practices and optimal performance.

Save time and cost

Reduce manual deployment errors

Reduces error-prone manual deployment steps by up to 90%

Database deployment savings

Saves an average of 50% on the cost of database deployments

Reduced migration time

Reduces migration time from days to hours

Right-size workload resources

Employs right-size workload resources to meet performance and operational goals

Protect workload data

End-to-end encryption

All data in flight being migrated to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is protected with end-to-end encryption.

Enterprise-level protection services

Enterprise-level protection services continuously protect the workload data from user errors and corruption, including backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Expert Guidance

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Get tailored advice on how NetApp Workload Factory fits your environment — from sizing and deployment to long-term optimization.

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Technical Specifications

Exhaustive hardware and software metrics extracted directly from official documentation.

  • Service Type
    Free service available in the NetApp Console unified hybrid multicloud control plane and as a standalone offering
  • Target Platform
    Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  • Supported Workloads
    • GenAI for AI applications
    • VMware environments for virtualization
    • Enterprise databases for data management
    • Development workspaces
  • Access
    Unified interface—accessible via UI or API

  • Migration Planning Reduction
    From days to hours
  • Infrastructure Configuration Error Reduction
    Up to 90%
  • Infrastructure and Operational Cost Savings
    Up to 50%
  • Database Deployment Cost Savings
    Average of 50%
  • Manual Deployment Step Reduction
    Up to 90%

  • Encryption
    End-to-end encryption for all data in flight being migrated to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  • Protection Services
    Enterprise-level protection services including backup and disaster recovery solutions

  • Document Type
    Solution Brief
  • Document ID
    SB-4296-0825
  • Copyright
    © 2025 NetApp, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions about NetApp Workload Factory

Answers to what enterprise IT leaders ask most before deploying NetApp Workload Factory with SANDataWorks.

Workload Factory is an intelligent automation service that simplifies deploying workloads to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. It uses Infrastructure-as-Code to assess resource options automatically — reducing migration planning from days to hours and eliminating up to 90% of manual configuration errors.

SANDataWorks uses Workload Factory to rapidly deploy complete Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI solutions. This drops the hurdle for GenAI POCs by fast-tracking architecture setup while ensuring data transport security and compliance.

Yes. By evaluating resource options and automatically applying well-architected best practices, Workload Factory right-sizes resources — saving organizations an average of 50% on operational and infrastructure costs.

Workload Factory is designed to launch, operate, and optimize heavy enterprise workloads including Generative AI pipelines, VMware virtualization environments, enterprise databases (like SQL Server), and development workspaces.

Yes. It actively monitors cloud resources for environmental drift to ensure they continue to meet best practices, and it provides guidance to scale infrastructure up, out, or down to hit optimum performance.

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