NetApp Cloud Volumes Service release notes

This page documents product updates to NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud. Check this page for announcements about new and changed features and related product information.

November 2022

• Feature: The CVS-Performance service type is now available in northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto). For region support, refer to the Global Regions Map for Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud.
• Feature: A new replication pair between northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal) and northamerica-northeast2 (Toronto) is now available. For more information, refer to Requirements and considerations for volume replication.
• Feature: The CVS-Performance service type now supports access-based enumeration. Refer to Creating an SMB volume.
• Feature: Global access to Active Directory is now available for the CVS service type. This storage pool level feature allows volumes to connect to Active Directory domain controllers outside of the pool's region. For more information on supported Active Directory topologies, refer to Identify supported AD DC topologies.

May 2022

• Feature: The CVS-Performance service type is now available in the us-west4 (Las Vegas) region. See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.
• Feature: Shared VPC is now supported for the CVS service type. This feature lets multiple projects (host and service) connect to NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud and share access to the volumes in the VPC network.

• Feature: New replication pairs:

  • us-west3 (Salt Lake City) and us-central1 (Iowa)
  • us-west4 (Las Vegas) and us-central1 (Iowa)
  • us-west4 (Las Vegas) and us-west2 (Los Angeles)
  • us-west4 (Las Vegas) and us-west3 (Salt Lake City)

  See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.

March 2022

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now uses storage pools for volumes of the CVS service type. Storage pools let you flexibly scale volumes from 1 GiB to 100 TiB and utilize the performance of the underlying storage pool independent of volume capacity. For more information, see Managing storage pools.

• Feature: You can now select specific zones for provisioning and failover of zone-redundant storage pools of the CVS service type. You can also initiate a cross-zone move.

• Feature: Customer-managed encryption keys now support keys associated with a separate customer project. See Setting up customer-managed encryption keys.

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now supports specification of an Active Directory connection type to allow a connection to be used for volumes of the CVS and CVS-Performance service types in a single Google Cloud region.

November 2021

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now offers support for customer-managed encryption keys for volumes, for more control and ownership over operations. See Setting up customer-managed encryption keys.

• Feature: Simultaneous access of Cloud Volumes using dual protocols (NFS and SMB/CIFS) is now supported for the CVS-Performance service type. See Managing dual protocol access.

• Feature: Volumes of CVS service type now offer performance of 128 MiB/s, increased from 32 MiB/s. See CVS service types and CVS service levels.

October 2021

• Feature: With support for in-zone and multi-region high availability options for the CVS-Performance service type and multi-zone high availability for the CVS service type, Cloud Volumes Service now offers improved uptime of 99.99% backed by the Service Level Agreement for Cloud Volumes Service (PDF).

• Feature: The CVS-Performance service type is available in additional regions: asia-northeast1 (Tokyo) and us-west3 (Salt Lake City). See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.

• Feature: Volume replication for SMB and NFS volumes is now generally available. See Volume replication.

• Update: Starting in November 2021, Cloud Volumes Service will limit growth beyond the allocated size for volumes of the CVS-Performance service type. For monitoring recommendations, see Monitoring cloud volumes.

July 2021

• Feature: NFS volumes of the CVS-Performance service type now support AES encryption of Active Directory communications and the ability for backup users to receive elevated file/folder privileges. See Creating an AD connection. For API support, see Update Active Directory with Kerberos and backup operators.

• Feature: The CVS service type now supports access-based enumeration and hiding for SMB shares and uses a default site to limit AD domain controller discovery. See Creating and managing SMB volumes.

• Feature: Metrics for cloud volumes have been updated to make them easier to understand and use. See Monitoring cloud volumes.

• Feature: Volume replication is supported for NFS and SMB volumes. See Volume replication.

May 2021

• Feature: The CVS service type now supports SMB protocol/workloads. This feature is in preview. See Service types.

• Feature: The volume replication feature now includes reverse sync, which you can use to replicate changes on the secondary volume back to the original source volume as part of a full recovery workflow. See Reverse sync volume replication relationships.

• Feature: NFS volumes of the CVS-Performance service type now support extended groups using the Active Directory LDAP service. You can disable this feature if you need support for local NFS client users. See Creating an NFS volume and Creating an AD connection.

March 2021

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now supports integrated backup of volumes to Google Cloud Storage, providing long-term protection for disaster recovery and archiving for the CVS service type. See Backing up and restoring a cloud volume.

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now supports zone-redundant volumes that offer higher volume availability within a cloud region for the CVS service type.

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now offers data protection with replication across regions. See Using volume replication to protect your data.

February 2021

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now supports Active Directory groups of users to have built-in backup operator privileges. Members of this group can override read and write permissions on files or folders if they are opened with backup intent.
• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service now offers support for bringing non-RFC 1918 IP addresses into the NetApp network for the CVS-Performance service type.

November 2020

• Feature: The CVS service type is generally available. See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.
• Feature: The CVS-Performance service type provides encryption in transit with NFSv4.1 Kerberos protection and SMB encryption.
• Feature: The CVS-Performance service type is available in an additional region: asia-southeast1 (Singapore). See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.

August 2020

• Feature: Introduces a new Cloud Volumes service type. Cloud Volumes Service provides two service types: CVS and CVS-Performance. The new general-purpose CVS service type is intended for standard workloads, such as file and application shares, secondary storage, and moderate application workloads that need up to 100 MiB/s of performance. The CVS-Performance service type name refers to the service that was previously available as Cloud Volumes Service before the introduction of separate service types.

• Feature: The CVS service type is available in the following regions: us-west1 (Oregon), us-east1 (South Carolina), europe-west1 (Belgium), europe-north1 (Finland), and southamerica-east1 (São Paulo, Brazil). The CVS-Performance service type is available in the europe-west4 (Netherlands) and northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal) regions. See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.

• Feature: Volumes that use the CVS service type can be backed up to Google Cloud Storage using the API for long-term protection and disaster recovery. See Backing up and restoring a cloud volume.

• Feature: Volumes that use the CVS-Performance service type can use NFSv4.1 ACLs. See Creating and managing NFS volumes.

May 2020

• Feature: CVS-Performance is certified to run as the storage platform for SAP HANA workloads in Google Cloud. For details about supported SAP HANA configurations, see the SAP certifications page.

April 2020

• Feature: Terraform provider support is available for automated Cloud Volumes Service infrastructure deployments. For more information, see Managing cloud volumes using Terraform.

March 2020

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service is available in the australia-southeast1 (Sydney, Australia) region. See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.

February 2020

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service supports the NFSv4.1 protocol during volume creation. NFSv4.1 offers better performance, built-in locking, and composite remote procedure calls (RPCs) for applications requiring these additional capabilities. See Creating and managing NFS volumes.

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service supports SMBv3 multichannel to achieve higher performance for Windows applications. See best practices when deploying SMB volumes with SMBv3 multichannel.

November 2019

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service is generally available in Google Cloud, as announced at Google NEXT '19 UK.

• Feature: Cloud Volumes Service is generally available in the following regions: us-west2 (Los Angeles), us-central1 (Iowa), us-east4 (Virginia), europe-west3 (Frankfurt), and europe-west2 (London). See Regional availability for Cloud Volumes Service.