NetApp Cloud Volumes Service release notes

Last reviewed 2023-08-22 UTC

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.

August 2023

  • Update: Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is now available for purchase. NetApp Volumes is a first-party, fully managed and integrated data storage service provided by Google Cloud, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is a third-party offering of NetApp services in Google Cloud. You can continue to use NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud in existing projects.

  • Feature: A new replication pair between us-central1 (Iowa) to northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal) is now available. For more information, see [Requirements and considerations for volume replication].

  • NetApp has upgraded NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud to support Netlogon RPC Sealing, as detailed in CVE-2022-38023.

    For more information, see KB021130: How to manage the Netlogon protocol changes related to CVE-2022-38023.

April 2023

  • Update: As a response to Microsoft vulnerability CVE-2022-38023, Windows server updates released on or after April 11, 2023 begin support for Netlogon RPC sealing. This may impact Active Directory domain controller connections used for Cloud Volumes Service. NetApp intends to upgrade the service to support RPC sealing by June 13, 2023. If you install the update and enable enforcement mode to require sealing, your data access to Cloud Volumes Service volumes may be affected. If you set Windows domain controllers to require sealing, then your Active Directory connection no longer authenticates users of your SMB volumes and NFS volumes using LDAP extended groups. Additionally, data access using these volumes stops.

    For more information on the updates, see KB5021130: How to manage the Netlogon protocol changes related to CVE-2022-38023 and for information on the effects of the update, see the Cloud Volumes Service FAQ How do the Netlogon protocol changes in the April 2023 Windows update affect Cloud Volumes Service?.

  • Update: Cloud Volumes Service documentation now offers a new page now with information about how to achieve high application resilience using NAS protocols. For details, see Application resilience.

February 2023

January 2023

December 2022

  • Feature: Shared VPC networks are now supported for the Cloud Key Management Service configurations. Multiple projects (host and service) can connect to NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud and share access to the volumes in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network.

November 2022

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 Manage 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 Set 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 Set 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 Manage 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

July 2021

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. For more information, see Create an NFS volume.

    You can disable this feature if you need support for local NFS client users, see Set up Active Directory for NFS.

March 2021

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

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 Back up and restore a cloud volume.

  • Feature: Volumes that use the CVS-Performance service type can use NFSv4.1 ACLs. See Create and manage 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

March 2020

February 2020

November 2019