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 | ||||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| User and group quotas within volume | No | No | Yes | ||
| FlexCache | No | No | Standard: No Premium or Extreme: Yes |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Backup vault location | No | Regional, same region | Regional, same region
Cross-region |
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| 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
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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
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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
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Supported regions for Flex custom performance
The following are the regions available for use for Flex custom performance.
| Region | Region description | Zones |
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| 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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