Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports Producer VPC spokes with Network Connectivity Center, a generally available feature. For more information, see Connect additional networks with NCC.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports Flex Unified large volumes in Preview, a file-only solution with NFS and SMB protocols for massive datasets. This option allows storage pools up to 20 PiB, and delivers up to 22 GiBps throughput and 750,000 IOPS. For more information, see Key features.
The Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for backup feature is generally available for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels, and in Preview for the Flex Unified service level. For more information, see Backup encryption with CMEK.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports a new operational mode for Flex Unified pools in Preview. ONTAP-mode provides direct API access to the underlying ONTAP cluster, and supports both file and block volumes, and large volume pools. For more information about managing different features, see About ONTAP-mode.
The block storage with iSCSI protocol is generally available for the Flex Unified service level. For more information, see Block storage.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports Flex Unified File service level with both NFS and SMB protocols in Preview. For more information, see Key features.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports the all-squash feature for NFS exports.
This option lets you enhance security by mapping all client user IDs to a single
anonymous user ID (UID=65534). For more information, see User ID squashing.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports prepopulation and write-back for FlexCache. For more information, see Cache prepopulation and Write-back.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for backup in allow-listed General Availability (GA). This feature is available for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels. For more information, see Backup encryption with CMEK.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers volume replication between the following region pairs for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels:
europe-west4 (Netherlands) and europe-west6 (Zurich)For more information, see About volume replication.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports the block storage feature with iSCSI protocol in allow-listed General Availability (GA) for the Flex service level of the Unified type. For more information, see Block storage.
]]>The manual QoS feature is now generally available for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, supporting the Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels. For more information, see Manual QoS.
]]>Selective file restore feature is now generally available for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, supporting the Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels. For more information, see Selective file restore.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports the FlexCache feature in allow-listed General Availability (GA) for the Premium and Extreme service levels. For more information, see FlexCache.
]]>The Flex custom performance is available in the following new regions:
asia-east1
europe-west8
europe-west9
me-west1
southamerica-east1
us-south1
For more information about available regions, see Supported regions for Flex custom performance.
]]>The auto-tiering feature for the Flex service level is now generally available for custom-performance Flex zonal pools. For more information, see Manage auto-tiering.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports the external replication feature in allow-listed General Availability (GA) for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels. This feature uses bi-directional SnapMirror to replicate data between ONTAP-based systems and NetApp Volumes. For more information, see About external replication.
]]>Large capacity volumes now support a maximum capacity of 3 PiB. For more information, see Large capacity volumes.
]]>For the Flex service level, the storage pool and volume now support a maximum capacity of 300 TiB. For more information, see Service levels.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports organization policy for Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). For more information, see CMEK organization policy.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is now integrated with NetApp BlueXP Connector. For more information, see NetApp Volumes integration with BlueXP.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports volume backups for large capacity volumes. This feature is now generally available. For more information, see About backups.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports cross-project cross-region replication for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels. This feature is generally available for allow-listed users. For more information, see About volume replication.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports multi-VPC peering for all service levels. For more information, see Connect additional networks.
]]>The Flex service level now supports auto-tiering feature in Preview, and available only for custom-performance Flex zonal pools. For more information, see Manage auto-tiering.
The cross-region backup vaults feature is now generally available. For more information, see Backup vaults.
]]>The Flex service level of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes that supports the independent provisioning of capacity and performance with zonal pools in selected regions is now generally available. For more information, see NetApp Volumes key features and Supported regions.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports volume replication for large capacity volumes. This feature is now generally available for allow-listed users.
The backup vault now allows users to specify a minimum retention period for backups, which prevents the backup deletion before the specified number of days. This feature is generally available for allow-listed users. For more information, see Prevent backup deletion.
]]>Assured Workloads now supports Google Cloud NetApp Volumes in Australia, Singapore, Canada, Europe and US regions. For more information, see Assured Workloads.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports SnapMirror-based volume migration for allow-listed users. This feature lets you migrate from ONTAP-based Flex volumes to NetApp Volumes. For more information, see Volume migration.
]]>Added performance benchmark information for the electronic design automation workload.
The auto-tiering feature which is previously available to allow-listed users, is now generally available. For more information, see Auto-tiering.
You can now create and manage quota rules on a NetApp Volumes volume using the Google Cloud console. For more information, see Manage quota rules.
]]>The backups feature for the Flex service level is now generally available. For more information, see Product overview.
The Flex service level of Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports custom performance in Preview, enabling independent provisioning of capacity and performance with zonal pools in selected regions. For more information, see NetApp Volumes key features.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports cross-region backup vaults in Preview. For more information, see Backup vaults.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory. For more information, see Connect to Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports user and group quotas. For more information, see Volume user and group quotas.
]]>Flex service level now supports Backups feature in Preview. For more information, see Product overview.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for large capacity volumes. For more information, see About CMEK.
]]>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports Kerberos for large capacity volumes.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now lets you test if an Active Directory policy is properly connected to the Active Directory service using the Google Cloud console. Performing the test helps you troubleshoot errors in your Active Directory policy configuration. For more information, see Test the Active Directory policy connection.
]]>Auto-tiering in Preview is now generally available for allow-listed users. Auto-tiering is now available for Premium and Extreme service levels. Auto-tiering reduces the overall cost of storage by identifying data that is infrequently used and transparently moves it from primary hot storage to less expensive but slower cold storage. For more information, see Auto-tiering.
]]>You can now create more than one active directive policy per region. For more information, see Active Directory.
Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for the Flex service level which is in Preview is now generally available. For more information, see About CMEK.
Flex service level is now available in all Google Cloud regions.
Flex service level now offers regional storage pools and volumes. Regional volumes provide high-availability across zones by synchronously replicating the data between the two zones selected by the user and automatically failing over to the replica zone in the event of a zone failure. This feature is now generally available.
Flex service level now supports the optional feature Block volume from deletion when clients are connected. This option is required for using NetApp Volumes with Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) datastores. When this option is enabled, it prevents the deletion of a volume if the volume is mounted as a GCVE datastore.
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