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. The Default-mode is in General Availability (GA) for iSCSI. For NFS and SMB, contact sales. ONTAP-mode is available in Preview. Both modes are available as regular or large capacity pools (in Preview).
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 (General Availability (GA) for iSCSI, Preview for NFS and SMB) |
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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| Large capacity pools | Zonal only (in Preview): 6 TiB to 2.5 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 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 |
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| Manual QoS | No | No | Yes | ||
| Volumes | |||||
| High availability | Zonal and Regional Zonal for large capacity pools (in Preview) |
Zonal or Regional with the option for volume replication | Zonal with the option for volume replication | ||
| Capacity | 1 GiB to 128 TiB 20 MiB to 300 TiB (ONTAP-mode only) |
1 GiB to 307,200 GiB | 100 GiB to 102,400 GiB | ||
| Large capacity volumes | Zonal only (in Preview): 4.8 TiB to 2.5 PiB without auto-tiering 4.8 TiB to 20 PiB with auto-tiering |
No | Standard: No Premium or Extreme: 15 TiB to 3 PiB (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) |
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| 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 (in Preview) | Yes, for custom-performance Flex File 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 1,023 snapshots per volume (ONTAP-mode only) |
Up to 255 snapshots per volume | Up to 255 snapshots per volume | ||
| Volume clones | Yes, thin 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 |
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| User and group quotas within volume | Yes (in Preview) | No | Yes | ||
| FlexCache | Yes (in Preview) | No | Standard: No Premium or Extreme: Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) |
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| Protocols | |||||
| SMB version support | SMB 2.1, 3.0, and 3.1.1 (in Preview) |
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 (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| SMB3 encryption | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| SMB continuously available shares |
Microsoft SQL Server and FSLogix (in Preview) | No | Microsoft SQL Server and FSLogix | ||
| NFS version support | NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2 (in Preview) |
NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 | NFSv3, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2 | ||
| NFS extended group support | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| NFSv4.1 security identifiers |
Yes (in Preview) | No | Yes | ||
| NFSv4.1 numeric IDs | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| NFSv4.1 ACLs | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| NFSv4.1 Kerberos | krb5, krb5i, and krb5p (in Preview) | krb5, krb5i, and krb5p | krb5, krb5i, and krb5p | ||
| NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 | On the same volume (in Preview) | On the same volume | On the same volume | ||
| SMB and NFSv3/4.1 | On the same volume (in Preview) | No | On the same volume | ||
| NFSv4.2 extended attributes | Yes, for NFSv4.1 enabled volumes (in Preview) | No | Yes, for NFSv4.1 enabled volumes | ||
| iSCSI | Yes, on non-large capacity pools only | 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 | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Active Directory site support | Yes (in Preview) | 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 (in Preview) | Always on | Yes | ||
| Support local Administrators group | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Support local Backups Operators group | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Support defining Windows Security Operators | Yes (in Preview) | Yes | Yes | ||
| Active Directory as LDAP server | NFS, RFC2307bis schema (in Preview) Other schemas with ONTAP-mode only |
NFS, RFC2307bis schema | NFS, RFC2307bis schema | ||
| Active Directory as Kerberos server | SMB, NFSv4.1, and NFSv4.2 (in Preview) | 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. |
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| 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 (in allow-listed General Availability (GA) for Block) SMB and NFS (in Preview) |
No | Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) | ||
| External replication (SnapMirror between ONTAP and NetApp Volumes) | SMB and NFS (in Preview) | No | Yes (in allow-listed General Availability (GA)) | ||
| Backups | |||||
| Manual backups | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Backup schedules | Daily, weekly, and monthly Manual backups (ONTAP-mode only) |
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 |
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| Backup vault location | Regional, same region
Cross-region |
Regional, same region | Regional, same region
Cross-region |
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| 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 (in Preview) | 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.
| Service level type | |||||
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| Flex Unified (General Availability (GA) for iSCSI, Preview for NFS and SMB) |
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 File 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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