Google Cloud NetApp Volumes service levels

This page describes the capabilities of different service levels that NetApp Volumes offers to its users.

NetApp Volumes offers the following service levels:

  • Flex Unified

    Flex Unified offers two different operation modes. For more information about modes, see Default-mode versus ONTAP-mode. Both modes are available as regular or large capacity pools.

  • Flex File

  • Standard

  • Premium

  • Extreme

Each service level offers different capacity options and performance levels to fit different use cases. The following table summarizes the features across service levels:

Features Service level type
Flex Unified Flex File Standard or Premium or Extreme
Storage pools
Capacity 1 to 425 TiB 1 to 200 TiB (regular pool)
1 to 300 TiB (if custom performance is enabled)		 Standard: 2 to 200 TiB

Premium or Extreme: 2 TiB to 10 PiB
Large capacity pools Zonal only, no iSCSI:
6 TiB to 2.48 PiB
without auto-tiering

6 TiB to 20 PiB
with auto-tiering		 No Premium or Extreme: 2 TiB to 10 PiB
Granular resizing Yes, the storage pool can increase in 1 GiB increments Yes, the storage pool can increase in 1 GiB increments Yes, the storage pool can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments
Performance Up to 5 GiBps throughput and 160,000 IOPS per storage pool

Regions with limited performance:
up to 1.6 GiBps throughput and
90,000 IOPS per storage pool. Large capacity pools aren't supported.

Large volumes up to 22 GiBps throughput and 750,000 IOPS.		 Default performance: up to 16 KiBps per GiB of provisioned pool capacity

Custom performance: up to 5 GiBps per zonal storage pool in select regions 		Standard: Up to 16 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity

Premium: Up to 64 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity

Extreme: Up to 128 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity

Up to a maximum of 5 GiBps for regular volumes and 30 GiBps for large capacity volumes
Manual QoS Yes No Yes
Volumes
High availability Zonal and Regional

Zonal for large capacity pools		 Zonal or Regional with the option for volume replication Zonal with the option for volume replication
Capacity 1 GiB to 300 TiB

1 GiB to 128 TiB (iSCSI and NVMe/TCP)

20 MiB to 300 TiB
(ONTAP-mode only)		 1 GiB to 100 TiB (regular volume)
1 GiB to 300 TiB (if custom performance is enabled)		 100 GiB to 100 TiB
Large capacity volumes for NFS and SMB Default large volumes
(48 member volumes):
4.8 TiB to 2.48 PiB
without auto-tiering
4.8 TiB to 20 PiB
with auto-tiering

With custom number of member volumes (minimum 2):
2,400 GiB to 2.48 PiB
without auto-tiering
2,400 GiB to 20 PiB
with auto-tiering

Minimum volume size of 100 GiB for ONTAP-mode		 No Standard: No

Premium or Extreme: 15 TiB to 3 PiB
(in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
Granular resizing Yes, the volume can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments, but decreasing iSCSI volumes isn't supported Yes, the volume can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments Yes, the volume can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments
Auto-tiering Yes, with hot-tier autogrow Yes, for custom-performance Flex File zonal pools in selected regions Standard: No

Premium or Extreme: Yes
Volume snapshots Up to 255 snapshots per volume

Up to 1,023 snapshots per volume (ONTAP-mode only)		 Up to 255 snapshots per volume Up to 255 snapshots per volume
Volume clones Yes, thin and thick clones Yes, thick clones Yes, thick clones
Volume reversion Yes Yes Yes
Volume backups Yes Yes Yes
Service level changes allowed User can change provisioned throughput and IOPS of the pool No Standard: No

Premium or Extreme: Yes, between Premium and Extreme
User and group quotas within volume Yes No Yes
FlexCache Yes No Standard: No

Premium or Extreme: Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
Protocols
SMB version support SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1 SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1 SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1
SMB workgroup mode Yes (ONTAP-mode only) Only domain mode Only domain mode
SMB access-based enumeration (ABE) Yes Yes Yes
SMB3 encryption Yes Yes Yes
SMB3 continuously
available shares		 Microsoft SQL Server and FSLogix No Microsoft SQL Server and FSLogix
NFS version support NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2
 NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2
NFS extended group support Yes Yes Yes
NFSv4.1 security
identifiers		 Yes No Yes
NFSv4.1 numeric IDs Yes Yes Yes
NFSv4.1 ACLs Yes Yes Yes
NFSv4.1 Kerberos krb5, krb5i, and krb5p krb5, krb5i, and krb5p krb5, krb5i, and krb5p
NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 On the same volume On the same volume On the same volume
SMB and NFSv3/4.1 On the same volume No On the same volume
NFSv4.2 extended attributes Yes, for NFSv4.1 enabled volumes No Yes, for NFSv4.1 enabled volumes
iSCSI Yes, on non-large capacity pools only No No
NVMe/TCP Yes (ONTAP-mode only) No No
S3 multiprotocol Yes (ONTAP-mode only) No No
All-squash Yes Yes Yes
Encryption at rest
Google-owned and Google-managed encryption keys Yes Yes Yes
Customer-managed keys Yes Yes Yes
Active Directory integration
Organizational Unit support Yes Yes Yes
Active Directory site support Yes Yes Yes
LDAP signing and sealing LDAP signing only, if required by domain controller SMB LDAP: signing only, if required by domain controller

NFS LDAP: required		 LDAP signing only if required by domain controller
AES support for Kerberos Yes Always on Yes
Support local Administrators group Yes Yes Yes
Support local Backups Operators group Yes Yes Yes
Support defining Windows Security Operators Yes Yes Yes
Active Directory as LDAP server NFS, RFC2307bis schema

Other schemas or LDAP servers with ONTAP-mode only		 NFS, RFC2307bis schema NFS, RFC2307bis schema
Active Directory as Kerberos server SMB, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2 SMB, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2 SMB, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2
Volume replication
Volume replication to other locations Yes, between regular Flex Unified pools only. The other location can be other zone or region. Yes, to Flex pools only. The other location must be another region. Standard: Yes, to Standard pools only

Premium or Extreme: Yes, between Premium and Extreme pools only. The other location must be another region.
Replication schedules 10 minute, 1 hour, and daily intervals

Custom schedule (ONTAP-mode only)		 10 minute, 1 hour, and daily intervals 10 minute, 1 hour, and daily intervals
Access to destination with
active replication		 Read-only Read-only Read-only
Access to destination with
stopped replication		 Read-write Read-write Read-write
Replication can switch directions Yes Yes Yes
Snapshots in replication Yes Yes Yes
Volume migration between ONTAP and NetApp Volumes Yes No Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
External replication (SnapMirror between ONTAP and NetApp Volumes) Yes No Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
Backups
Manual backups Yes Yes Yes
Backup schedules Daily, weekly, and monthly Daily, weekly, and monthly Daily, weekly, and monthly
Backup restores Full-volume, in region

Full-volume within cross-regions		 Full-volume, in region Full-volume, in region

Full-volume within cross-regions
Backup vault location Regional, same region

Cross-region		 Regional, same region Regional, same region

Cross-region
Selective file restore Yes No Yes
Immutable backups Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
CMEK backup Yes No Yes
Networking
Shared VPC support Yes Yes Yes

Supported regions

The following table lists regions available for use in NetApp Volumes across service levels. For more information about region-specific considerations, see Geography and regions.

Region name Region description Flex Unified Flex File Standard or Premium or Extreme
africa-south1 Johannesburg, South Africa No Yes No
asia-east1 Changhua County, Taiwan Yes Yes No
asia-east2 Hong Kong No Yes No
asia-northeast1 Tokyo, Japan Yes (limited performance) Yes No
asia-northeast2 Osaka, Japan Yes Yes No
asia-northeast3 Seoul, South Korea No Yes No
asia-south1 Mumbai, India Yes Yes No
asia-south2 Delhi, India No Yes No
asia-southeast1 Jurong West, Singapore Yes Yes Yes
asia-southeast2 Jakarta, Indonesia No Yes No
australia-southeast1 Sydney, Australia Yes Yes Yes
australia-southeast2 Melbourne, Australia Yes Yes No
europe-central2 Warsaw, Poland No Yes No
europe-north1 Hamina, Finland No Yes No
europe-north2 Stockholm, Sweden No Yes No
europe-southwest1 Madrid, Spain Yes Yes Yes
europe-west1 St. Ghislain, Belgium Yes Yes No
europe-west2 London, UK Yes (limited performance) Yes Yes
europe-west3 Frankfurt, Germany Yes Yes Yes
europe-west4 Eemshaven, Netherlands Yes Yes Yes
europe-west6 Zurich, Switzerland No Yes Yes
europe-west8 Milan, Italy No Yes No
europe-west9 Paris, France Yes (limited performance) Yes No
europe-west10 Berlin, Germany No Yes No
europe-west12 Turin, Italy No Yes No
me-central1 Doha, Qatar No Yes No
me-central2 Dammam, Saudi Arabia Yes Yes No
me-west1 Tel Aviv, Israel Yes Yes No
northamerica-northeast1 Montréal, Canada No Yes Yes
northamerica-northeast2 Toronto, Canada No Yes Yes
northamerica-south1 Queretaro, Mexico No Yes No
southamerica-east1 São Paulo, Brazil Yes Yes No
southamerica-west1 Santiago, Chile No Yes No
us-central1 Iowa, US Yes Yes Yes
us-east1 South Carolina, US Yes Yes No
us-east4 Northern Virginia, US Yes Yes Yes
us-east5 Columbus, US Yes (limited performance) Yes No
us-south1 Dallas, US Yes Yes No
us-west1 Oregon, US Yes Yes No
us-west2 Los Angeles, US Yes (limited performance) Yes Yes
us-west3 Salt Lake City, US Yes (limited performance) Yes Yes
us-west4 Las Vegas, US Yes Yes Yes

Supported regions for Flex Unified custom performance

The following are the regions available for use for Flex Unified custom performance.

Region name Region description Zone names
asia-east1 Changhua County, Taiwan asia-east1-b
asia-east1-c
asia-northeast2 Osaka, Japan asia-northeast2-a
asia-northeast2-b
asia-northeast2-c
asia-south1 Mumbai, India asia-south1-b
asia-south1-c
asia-southeast1 Jurong West, Singapore asia-southeast1-a
asia-southeast1-b
australia-southeast1 Sydney, Australia australia-southeast1-a
australia-southeast1-b
australia-southeast1-c
australia-southeast2 Melbourne, Australia australia-southeast2-a
australia-southeast2-b
australia-southeast2-c
europe-southwest1 Madrid, Spain europe-southwest1-a
europe-southwest1-b
europe-west1 St. Ghislain, Belgium europe-west1-b
europe-west1-c
europe-west1-d
europe-west3 Frankfurt, Germany europe-west3-a
europe-west3-b
europe-west3-c
europe-west4 Eemshaven, Netherlands europe-west4-a
europe-west4-b
europe-west4-c
me-central2 Dammam, Saudi Arabia me-central2-a
me-central2-b
me-central2-c
me-west1 Tel Aviv, Israel me-west1-a
me-west1-b
me-west1-c
southamerica-east1 São Paulo, Brazil southamerica-east1-a
southamerica-east1-b
southamerica-east1-c
us-central1 Iowa, US us-central1-a
us-central1-b
us-central1-c
us-east1 South Carolina, US us-east1-b
us-east1-c
us-east1-d
us-east4 N. Virginia, US us-east4-a
us-east4-b
us-east4-c
us-south1 Dallas, US us-south1-a
us-south1-b
us-west1 Oregon, US us-west1-a
us-west1-b
us-west4 Las Vegas, US us-west4-a
us-west4-b

Supported regions for Flex Unified limited performance

The following regions support the Flex Unified limited performance, where the peak performance of a storage pool is capped to 1.6 GiBps and 90,000 IOPS. Large capacity pools aren't supported.

Region name Region description Zone names
asia-northeast1 Tokyo, Japan asia-northeast1-b
asia-northeast1-c
europe-west2 London, United Kingdom europe-west2-b
europe-west2-c
europe-west9 Paris, France europe-west9-a
europe-west9-b
europe-west9-c
us-east5 Columbus, US us-east5-b
us-east5-c
us-west3 Salt Lake City, US us-west3-a
us-west3-b
us-west3-c
us-west2 Los Angeles, US us-west2-b
us-west2-c

Supported regions for Flex File custom performance

The following are the regions available for use for Flex File custom performance.

Region name Region description Zone names
asia-east1 Changhua County, Taiwan asia-east1-a
asia-east1-c
asia-northeast1 Tokyo, Japan asia-northeast1-b
asia-northeast1-c
asia-northeast3 Seoul, South Korea asia-northeast3-b
asia-northeast3-c
asia-south1 Mumbai, India asia-south1-a
asia-south1-b
asia-south2 Delhi, India asia-south2-b
asia-southeast1 Jurong West, Singapore asia-southeast1-a
asia-southeast1-b
europe-north2 Stockholm, Sweden europe-north2-a
europe-north2-b
europe-north2-c
europe-west1 St. Ghislain, Belgium europe-west1-b
europe-west1-c
europe-west2 London, United Kingdom europe-west2-a
europe-west2-b
europe-west3 Frankfurt, Germany europe-west3-b
europe-west4 Eemshaven, Netherlands europe-west4-a
europe-west4-b
europe-west4-c
europe-west8 Milan, Italy europe-west8-b
europe-west8-c
europe-west9 Paris, France europe-west9-a
europe-west9-c
me-west1 Tel Aviv, Israel me-west1-b
northamerica-northeast2 Toronto, Canada northamerica-northeast2-b
northamerica-south1 Queretaro, Mexico northamerica-south1-a
northamerica-south1-b
northamerica-south1-c
southamerica-east1 São Paulo, Brazil southamerica-east1-a
us-central1 Iowa, US us-central1-a
us-central1-b
us-central1-c
us-east1 South Carolina, US us-east1-b
us-east1-c
us-east1-d
us-east4 N. Virginia, US us-east4-a
us-east4-b
us-east4-c
us-east5 Columbus, US us-east5-a
us-east5-b
us-south1 Dallas, US us-south1-a
us-west1 Oregon, US us-west1-a
us-west1-b
us-west1-c
us-west3 Salt Lake City, US us-west3-a
us-west3-b
us-west4 Las Vegas, US us-west4-a
us-west4-b
us-west8 Phoenix, US us-west8-a
us-west8-b
us-west8-c

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