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    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 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 (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
    Flex File
    Standard or Premium or Extreme
    Storage pools
    Capacity
    1 to 425 TiB
    1 to 300 TiB
    Standard: 2 to 200 TiB

    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
    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
    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
    No
    No
    Yes
    Volumes
    High availability
    Zonal or Regional with the option for volume replication
    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
    No
    No
    Standard: No

    Premium or Extreme: 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
    Yes, the volume can increase and decrease in 1 GiB increments
    Auto-tiering
    No
    Yes, for custom-performance Flex zonal pools in selected regions
    Standard: No

    Premium or Extreme: Yes
    Volume snapshots
    Up to 255 snapshots per volume
    Up to 255 snapshots per volume
    Up to 255 snapshots per volume
    Volume clones
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Volume reversion
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Volume backups
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Service level changes allowed
    No
    No
    Standard: No

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

    Premium or Extreme: Yes
    Protocols
    SMB version support
    No
    SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1
    SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1
    SMB workgroup mode
    No
    Only domain mode
    Only domain mode
    SMB access-based enumeration (ABE)
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    SMB3 encryption
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    SMB continuously available shares
    No
    No
    Microsoft SQL Server and FSLogix
    NFS version support
    No
    NFSv3 and NFSv4.1
    NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2
    NFS extended group support
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    NFSv4.1 security identifiers
    No
    No
    Yes
    NFSv4.1 numeric IDs
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    NFSv4.1 ACLs
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    NFSv4.1 Kerberos
    No
    krb5, krb5i, and krb5p
    krb5, krb5i, and krb5p
    NFSv3 and NFSv4.1
    No
    On the same volume
    On the same volume
    SMB and NFSv3/4.1
    No
    No
    On the same volume
    NFSv4.2 extended attributes
    No
    No
    Yes, for NFSv4.1 enabled volumes
    iSCSI
    Yes
    No
    No
    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
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Active Directory site support
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    LDAP signing and sealing
    No
    SMB LDAP: signing only, if required by domain controller

    NFS LDAP: required
    LDAP signing only if required by domain controller
    AES support for Kerberos
    No
    Always on
    Yes
    Support local Administrators group
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Support local Backups Operators group
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Support defining Windows Security Operators
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Active Directory as LDAP server
    No
    NFSV3 and NFSv4.1, RFC2307bis schema
    NFSv3 and NFSv4.1, RFC2307bis schema
    Active Directory as Kerberos server
    No
    SMB and NFSv4.1
    SMB and NFSv4.1
    Volume replication
    Volume replication to other locations
    Yes
    Yes, to Flex pools only
    Standard: Yes, to Standard pools only

    Premium or Extreme: Yes, between Premium and Extreme pools only
    Replication schedules
    10 minute, 1 hour, and daily intervals
    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
    No
    No
    Yes
    Volume replication between ONTAP and NetApp Volumes
    No
    No
    Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
    Backups
    Manual backups
    No
    Yes
    Yes
    Backup schedules
    No
    Daily, weekly, and monthly
    Daily, weekly, and monthly
    Backup restores
    No
    Full-volume, in region
    Full-volume, in region

    Full-volume within cross-regions
    Backup vault location
    No
    Regional, same region
    Regional, same region

    Cross-region
    Selective file restore
    No
    No
    Yes
    CMEK backup
    No
    No
    Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA))
    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 .

    Service level type
    Flex Unified (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) Flex File Standard or Premium or 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

    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-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
    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
    us-west8
    		 Phoenix, USA us-west8-a
    us-west8-b
    us-west8-c

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