Secure NetApp Volumes with a service perimeter

This page shows you how to protect your Google Cloud NetApp Volumes volumes with a service perimeter using VPC Service Controls.

VPC Service Controls improve the security of Google Cloud services by creating a service perimeter that prevents unauthorized data access. This perimeter protects against accidental or intentional data exfiltration attempts from external or internal entities. To grant access, you need to add entities to your perimeter. For more information about VPC Service Controls, see VPC Service Controls overview.

VPC Service Controls protect access to the NetApp Volumes API, which is used for administrative management of NetApp Volumes resources. You can't access a volume's content with this API.

Data access to the content of a volume is granted using the NFS or SMB protocol. The security of data access is protected through volume and file access controls specific to these protocols which are independent of VPC Service Controls. To connect to a volume, a NFS or SMB client needs to be connected to the same network as the volume. For more information, see the following sections:

Secure your volumes using VPC Service Controls

  1. Create a service perimeter.

  2. Add the NetApp Volumes API to your service perimeter. For instructions on adding a service to your service perimeter, see Update a service perimeter.

VPC Service Controls limitations

Some features of NetApp Volumes require access to Google resources within your perimeter. The following features are known to cause issues when you enable VPC Service Controls.

  • Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK): NetApp Volumes needs access to the KMS key you specified for CMEK. Google Cloud Customer Care can provide you with the required VPC-SC rules to resolve the issues. You can open a support case with Google Cloud Customer Care.

  • Integrated Backup: Google Cloud Customer Care can provide you with the required VPC-SC rules to resolve the issues. You can open a support case with Google Cloud Customer Care.

For more information about products and services that are supported by VPC Service Controls, see Supported products and limitations.

What's next

Configure access to Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.