Google Cloud NetApp Volumes release notes

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now lets you test if an Active Directory policy is properly connected to the Active Directory service using the Google Cloud console. Performing the test helps you troubleshoot errors in your Active Directory policy configuration. For more information, see Test the Active Directory policy connection.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now supports Kerberos for large capacity volumes.

Auto-tiering in Preview is now generally available for allow-listed users. Auto-tiering is now available for Premium and Extreme service levels. Auto-tiering reduces the overall cost of storage by identifying data that is infrequently used and transparently moves it from primary hot storage to less expensive but slower cold storage. For more information, see Auto-tiering.

Flex service level now offers regional storage pools and volumes. Regional volumes provide high-availability across zones by synchronously replicating the data between the two zones selected by the user and automatically failing over to the replica zone in the event of a zone failure. This feature is now generally available.

Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) for the Flex service level which is in Preview is now generally available. For more information, see About CMEK.

You can now create more than one active directive policy per region. For more information, see Active Directory.

Flex service level now supports the optional feature Block volume from deletion when clients are connected. This option is required for using NetApp Volumes with Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) datastores. When this option is enabled, it prevents the deletion of a volume if the volume is mounted as a GCVE datastore.

Large capacity volumes in Preview is now generally available for allow-listed users. Premium and Extreme service levels now offer large capacity volumes. Large capacity volumes can be sized between 15TiB and 1 PiB in increments of 1 GiB, and deliver throughput performance of up to 12.5 GiBps. Large capacity volumes offer six storage endpoints (IP addresses) to load-balance client traffic to the volume and achieve higher performance. For more information, see Large capacity volumes.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers volume replication between the following region pairs for Flex service level:

• europe-west1 (Belgium) and europe-west8 (Milan)

• europe-west1 (Belgium) and europe-west9 (Paris)

• europe-west8 (Milan) and europe-west12 (Turin)

To learn more, see About volume replication.

For the Flex service level, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers its services in the following regions:

• europe-west8 (Milan)

• europe-west9 (Paris)

• europe-west12 (Turin)

To learn more, see NetApp Volumes key features.

Flex service level now supports CMEK (in Preview). For more information, see About CMEK.

NetApp Volumes now supports committed use discounts (CUDs). For more information, see NetApp Volumes committed use discounts.

You can now use Active Directory policies to manage the BUILTIN\Administrators group. For more information, see Create an Active Directory Policy.

The Flex service level now supports zone-redundant storage pools (in Preview). For more information, see Switch active and replica zones.

NetApp Volumes now supports auto-tiering (in Preview). For more information, see Auto-tiering.

NetApp Volumes now supports large capacity volumes (in Preview). For more information, see Large capacity volumes.

NetApp Volumes now supports Google Cloud VMware Engine Peering Automation. For more information, see Google Cloud VMware Engine storage.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers volume replication between the following region pairs where the Standard service level is in Preview: * europe-west1 (Belgium) and europe-north1 (Finland) * us-west1 (Oregon) and us-east1 (South Carolina) * asia-south1 (Mumbai) and asia-south2 (Delhi)

To learn more, see About volume replication.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now offers volume replication between the following region pairs:

• australia-southeast1 (Sydney) and asia-southeast1 (Singapore)

To learn more, see About volume replication.

Terraform provider support is now available for automated NetApp Volumes infrastructure deployments. For more information, see Terraform Google Cloud Platform Provider documentation.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes now lets you block volumes from deletion to enhance protection for Google Cloud VMware Engine datastores. For more information, see About volumes.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes offers its services in the eu-west6 (Zurich) region. To learn more, see NetApp Volumes key features.

The NetApp Volumes introduces the Backups feature. To learn more, see About NetApp Volumes.

The NetApp Volumes introduces the Standard service level. To learn more, see About NetApp Volumes.