Manage your volume

This page describes how to manage your volumes.

Edit a volume

This section provides details about which volume settings are editable and instructions for how to edit a volume.

Editable settings

You can change the following settings of a volume after it's created:

• Storage pool settings: you can re-assign the volumes of Premium and Extreme service levels to a different pool to change its service level. Note that this option isn't available for the Flex and Standard service levels. For example, if the storage pool hosts a Premium service level volume, you can re-assign the volume to an Extreme service level storage pool and the other way around. The change to service levels lets you manage volume throughput limits and per GiB costs.

• Host groups: the volume can be detached from their existing host groups or added to additional host groups.

• Volume details: the capacity of a volume is adjustable up and down in 1 GiB increments. The size of the file data in the volume must be smaller than the volume capacity. When you increase the volume capacity, the pool that hosts the volume must have enough available capacity to accommodate the additional capacity requirement.

  Changing the volume capacity can impact the maximum achievable throughput of volumes of Standard, Premium, or Extreme service level.

  If the storage pool doesn't have enough capacity to accommodate the additional capacity requirement, you can increase the capacity of the pool, see Storage pool capacity .

• Protocol configurations: you can change the configuration for selected protocols, but you can't change the protocol itself. For example, if the volume's protocol type is Server Message Block (SMB), you can choose to enable or disable SMB encryption, hide or show the SMB share, and enable or disable access-based enumeration.

• Export rules: for volumes that use NFSv3 or NFSv4.1 protocol types, you can edit the export rules.

• Auto-tiering: for volumes in storage pools that allow auto-tiering, you can enable auto-tiering. Once auto-tiering is enabled, it can be paused and resumed, but can't be disabled. You can change the cooling threshold value for each volume. For volumes in Flex Unified or Flex File custom-performance pools, you can enable or disable the hot tier bypass. For more information, see Manage auto-tiering .

• Snapshot schedules: you can modify the snapshot schedule. You can either make the snapshot directory visible if you want to enable file system access to snapshot versions by clients or allow scheduled snapshots to configure the volume to automatically take snapshots.

• Backup configuration: you can do the following in backup configuration:

  • Attach a volume to a backup vault .

  • Remove a volume from a backup vault .

  • Set a schedule for automatic backups by attaching a backup policy .

• Labels: you can add, modify, or delete labels.

Considerations

Consider the following before you edit a volume:

• For volumes in an active volume replication, changes to either the source or destination volume also apply to the replication partner. For volumes in a stopped replication , changes apply independently from the replication partner. For volume capacity changes, the source and destination pools need enough available capacity to accommodate the change.

• You can only move volumes to pools that are in the same location and have the same Active Directory policy, customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) policy, LDAP, and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) settings as the pool that hosts the volume. Auto-tiered volumes can only be moved to a storage pool that allows auto-tiering, regardless of whether auto-tiering is enabled or paused for the volume.

• Only pools that satisfy the conditional criteria are listed for selections. The target storage pool needs enough available capacity to accommodate the volume.

• The maximum throughput for Standard, Premium, and Extreme service level volumes depends on the capacity of the volume and the service level you chose. An Extreme volume goes twice as fast as a Premium volume of the same capacity. A larger volume provides higher performance based on additional IOPS or throughput.

Edit a volume

Use the following instructions to edit a volume using the Google Cloud console or Google Cloud CLI or ONTAP-mode.

gcloud  
netapp  
volumes  
update  
 VOLUME_NAME 
  
 \ 
  
--location = 
 LOCATION 
  
 \ 
  
-- PARAMETER 
 = 
 VALUE 

gcloud  
netapp  
volumes  
update  
 VOLUME_NAME 
  
 \ 
  
--location = 
 LOCATION 
  
 \ 
  
--capacity = 
 CAPACITY 

gcloud  
netapp  
volumes  
update  
 VOLUME_NAME 
  
 \ 
  
--location = 
 LOCATION 
  
 \ 
  
--storage-pool = 
 "projects/ PROJECT_ID 
/locations/ LOCATION 
/storagePools/ POOL_NAME 
" 

gcloud  
netapp  
storage-pools  
list  
--format = 
 "value(NAME)" 

gcloud  
netapp  
volumes  
update  
 VOLUME_NAME 
  
 \ 
--location = 
 LOCATION 
  
 \ 
--tiering-policy = 
tier-action = 
ENABLED,cooling-threshold-days = 
 31 

gcloud  
netapp  
volumes  
update  
 VOLUME_NAME 
  
 \ 
  
--location = 
 LOCATION 
  
 \ 
  
--capacity = 
 CAPACITY 
  
 \ 
  
--block-devices = 
 name 
 = 
 LUN_NAME 
,host-groups = 
projects/ PROJECT_ID 
/locations/ REGION 
/hostGroups/ HOST_GROUP_NAME 

Monitor volume performance and usage

The volume details page now includes an observability tab, available in Preview. This feature provides an in-context view of your volume's performance and usage metrics, without the need to navigate to Cloud Monitoring.

The observability tab provides the following information:

• Volume capacity usage: monitor how close your volume is to being full. If you reach 100%, you can't write any more data. Add more capacity to avoid out-of-space errors.

• Volume inode usage: track the number of files and folders you can create. At 100%, you can't add additional files or folders. If you run out of inodes, consider adding volume capacity .

• Volume throughput usage: monitor how much of your provisioned performance the volume consumes. For Standard, Premium, and Extreme volumes, the volume size defines the maximum throughput. For the Flex Unified and Flex File volumes, the pool defines the maximum throughput, which is shared among its volumes.

• Volume throughput: view the data transfer rate for your volume.

• Volume IOPS: view the I/O operations per second.

• Volume latency: view the response time for volume operations.

• Auto-tiering volume used space: compare data stored in the hot and cold tiers over time to identify trends, such as data cooling off or moving back to the hot tier.

• Volume IO activity: analyze the types of IOPS: reads, writes, and metadata operations your volume is handling.

To access the observability tab, do the following:

1. Go to the NetApp Volumespage in the Google Cloud console.

   Go to NetApp Volumes

2. Click Volumes.

3. Click the volume you want to monitor.

4. Click the Observabilitytab on the volume details page.

Delete a volume

This section provides instructions for how to delete a volume.

Before you begin

When you delete a volume, all of the data and volume snapshots within the volume get deleted and the capacity of the pool returns. Before you delete a volume, you must delete the replication relationship .

Delete a volume

Use the following instructions to delete a volume using the Google Cloud console or Google Cloud CLI or ONTAP-mode.

  
gcloud  
netapp  
volumes  
delete  
 VOLUME_NAME 
  
 \ 
  
--project = 
 PROJECT_ID 
  
 \ 
  
--location = 
 LOCATION 

What's next

Manage quota rules .