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 four service levels:

Flex
Standard
Premium
Extreme

The Flex service level further provides two options to address your workload requirements:

File type
Unified type

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
(in allow-listed General Availability (GA))

Flex File

Standard

Premium

Extreme

Storage pools

Capacity

1 to 425 TiB

1 to 300 TiB

2 to 200 TiB

2 TiB to 10 PiB

Granular resizing

Yes, the storage pool can increase in 1 GiB increments

Yes, the storage pool can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments

Performance

Custom performance: up to 5 GiBps throughput and 160000 IOPS per storage pool

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

Up to 16 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity

Up to 64 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity

Up to 128 KiBps per GiB of provisioned volume capacity

Manual QoS

Yes

Volumes

High availability

Zonal or Regional with the option
for volume replication

Zonal with the option for
volume replication

Capacity

1 GiB to 131,072 GiB

1 GiB to 307,200 GiB

100 GiB to 102,400 GiB

Large capacity volumes

15 TiB to 3 PiB

Granular resizing

Yes, the volume can be increased in 1 GiB increments but can't be decreased

Yes, the volume can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments

Auto-tiering

Yes, for custom-performance Flex zonal pools in selected regions

Yes

Volume snapshots

Up to 255 snapshots per volume

Volume clones

Yes

Volume reversion

Yes

Volume backups

Yes

Service level changes allowed

Yes, between Premium and Extreme

User and group quotas within volume

Yes

Protocols

SMB version support

SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1

SMB workgroup mode

Only domain mode

SMB access-based enumeration (ABE)

Yes

SMB3 encryption

Yes

SMB continuously available shares

Microsoft SQL Server and FSLogix

NFS version support

NFSv3 and NFSv4.1

NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2

NFS extended group support

Yes

NFSv4.1 security identifiers

Yes

NFSv4.1 numeric IDs

Yes

NFSv4.1 ACLs

Yes

NFSv4.1 Kerberos

krb5, krb5i, and krb5p

NFSv3 and NFSv4.1

On the same volume

SMB and NFSv3/4.1

On the same volume

NFSv4.2 extended attributes

Yes, for NFSv4.1 enabled volumes

iSCSI

Yes

Encryption at rest

Google-owned and Google-managed encryption keys

Yes

Customer-managed keys

Yes

Active Directory integration

Organizational Unit support

Yes

Active Directory site support

Yes

LDAP signing and sealing

SMB LDAP: signing only, if required by domain controller
NFS LDAP: required

LDAP signing only if required by domain controller

AES support for Kerberos

Always on

Yes

Support local Administrators group

Yes

Support local Backups Operators group

Yes

Support defining Windows Security Operators

Yes

Active Directory as LDAP server

NFSV3 and NFSv4.1, RFC2307bis schema

NFSv3 and NFSv4.1, RFC2307bis schema

NFSv3 and NFSv4.1. RFC2307bis schema

Active Directory as Kerberos server

SMB and NFSv4.1

Volume replication

Volume replication to other locations

Yes

Yes, to Flex pools only

Yes, to Standard pools only

Yes, between Premium and Extreme pools only

Replication schedules

10 minute, 1 hour, and daily intervals

Access to destination with
active replication

Read-only

Access to destination with
stopped replication

Read-write

Replication can switch directions

Yes

Snapshots in replication

Yes

Volume migration between ONTAP and NetApp Volumes

Yes

Volume replication between ONTAP and NetApp Volumes

Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))

Backups

Manual backups

Yes

Backup schedules

Daily, weekly, and monthly

Backup restores

Full-volume, in region

Full-volume, in region

Full-volume within cross-regions

Backup vault location

Regional, same region

Regional, same region

Cross-region

Selective file restore

Yes

Networking

Shared VPC support

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 .

	Service level type
	Flex Unified (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))	Flex File	Standard	Premium	Extreme
Regions	`asia-northeast2` `asia-south1` `asia-southeast1` `australia-southeast1` `europe-west1` `europe-west3` `europe-west4` `me-central2` `me-west1` `southamerica-east1` `us-central1` `us-east1` `us-east4` `us-west1` `us-west4`	`africa-south1` `asia-east1` `asia-east2` `asia-northeast1` `asia-northeast2` `asia-northeast3` `asia-south1` `asia-south2` `asia-southeast1` `asia-southeast2` `australia-southeast1` `australia-southeast2` `europe-central2` `europe-north1` `europe-southwest1` `europe-west1` `europe-west2` `europe-west3` `europe-west4` `europe-west6` `europe-west8` `europe-west9` `europe-west10` `europe-west12` `me-central1` `me-central2` `me-west1` `northamerica-northeast1` `northamerica-northeast2` `southamerica-east1` `southamerica-west1` `us-central1` `us-east1` `us-east4` `us-east5` `us-south1` `us-west1` `us-west2` `us-west3` `us-west4`	`asia-southeast1` `australia-southeast1` `europe-southwest1` `europe-west2` `europe-west3` `europe-west4` `europe-west6` `northamerica-northeast1` `northamerica-northeast2` `us-central1` `us-east4` `us-west2` `us-west3` `us-west4`	`asia-southeast1` `australia-southeast1` `europe-southwest1` `europe-west2` `europe-west3` `europe-west4` `europe-west6` `northamerica-northeast1` `northamerica-northeast2` `us-central1` `us-east4` `us-west2` `us-west3` `us-west4`	`asia-southeast1` `australia-southeast1` `europe-southwest1` `europe-west2` `europe-west3` `europe-west4` `europe-west6` `northamerica-northeast1` `northamerica-northeast2` `us-central1` `us-east4` `us-west2` `us-west3` `us-west4`

Supported regions for Flex custom performance

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

Region	Region description	Zones
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-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
southamerica-east1	São Paulo, Brazil	southamerica-east1-a
us-central1	Iowa, USA	us-central1-a us-central1-b us-central1-c
us-east1	South Carolina, USA	us-east1-b us-east1-c us-east1-d
us-east4	N. Virginia, USA	us-east4-a us-east4-b us-east4-c
us-east5	Columbus, USA	us-east5-a us-east5-b
us-south1	Dallas, USA	us-south1-a
us-west1	Oregon, USA	us-west1-a us-west1-b us-west1-c
us-west3	Salt Lake City, USA	us-west3-a us-west3-b
us-west4	Las Vegas, USA	us-west4-a us-west4-b

What's next

NetApp Volumes use cases .