This Guidance helps you build an environment in which operators and architects can create an Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file system and configure the file system for multi-protocol access. This Guidance represents a workload that requires access from both Windows Desktop and Linux instances. The Linux instances read and create data that is then read by the Windows instance to load this data into an application. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP offers high-performing storage with multiprotocol capabilities for simultaneous network file system (NFS) and server message block (SMB) access to the same file share, eliminating the need to duplicate data across storage services.