Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
NetApp's best-in-class block and file storage service, in Google Cloud
Secure and performant block and file storage that supports SAP, Microsoft, and Linux-based applications and makes it easy to migrate without refactoring or redesigning.
Features
Run enterprise apps faster and more efficiently
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports most on-prem applications. Seamlessly lift-and-optimize mission-critical Linux, Windows, VMware, Kubernetes, and SAP shared file workloads, among many others. Integrate and run complex, performance-intensive, and latency-sensitive applications. With Flex Custom performance, achieve rapid response times with throughput scaling up to 5 GiB/s and 160,000 IOPS per storage pool, efficiently running demanding workloads.
Optimize hybrid workloads with unified block and file storage
Modernize your infrastructure with Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. By unifying block and file storage, you can effortlessly scale AI-ready applications across on-premises and cloud environments. Maximize your ROI with cost-saving features like auto-tiering, independent scaling, and instant, zero-footprint snapshots and volume clones.
Meet mandates for uptime, availability, and security
Instantly restore data from in-place, near-zero-footprint snapshots or remote backup copies in the event of unplanned data loss, ransomware, or data corruption. Provide business continuity for your cloud application using cross-region replication, cloning and backups.
How It Works
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is a fully managed cloud-native file storage service that provides high-performance, enterprise-grade storage powered by NetApp's ONTAP software. It simplifies the process of migrating and running your most demanding file-based workloads in Google Cloud without needing to refactor your applications.
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is a fully managed cloud-native file storage service that provides high-performance, enterprise-grade storage powered by NetApp's ONTAP software. It simplifies the process of migrating and running your most demanding file-based workloads in Google Cloud without needing to refactor your applications.
Common Uses
Data sharing for Windows and Linux applications
Storage for EDA applications
Learning resources
Datastores for VMware clusters
Quickly recover from ransomware attacks with snapshots and backups
Learning resources
External replication for migration and disaster recovery to cloud
Learning resources
Pricing
| Service levels | Service level fit is evaluated by performance—as a combination of throughput, R/W mix, and latency. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Service level | Flex | Flex Regional | Standard | Premium | Extreme |
Performance | 5 GiB/sec shared by all volumes in a storage pool | 16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput) | 16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput) | 64 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput) | 128 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput) |
Price* ($ / GiB / month) | $0.105 (Custom provisioning) | $0.40 | $0.20 | $0.29 | $0.39 |
Volume size | 1 GiB to 307,200 GiB | 1 GiB to 102,400 GiB | 100 GiB to 102,400 GiB | 100 GiB to 102,400 GiB | 100 GiB to 102,400 GiB |
Large capacity volumes | No | No | No | 15 TiB to 3 PiB | 15 TiB to 3 PiB |
Regional availability | Most Google Cloud regions (see list) | Most Google Cloud regions (see list) | 14 Google Cloud regions (see list) | 14 Google Cloud regions (see list) | 14 Google Cloud regions (see list) |
Uptime / SLA | 99.9% | 99.99% | 99.9% | 99.95% | 99.95% |
Protocols | NFSv3/v4.1, SMB | NFSv3/v4.1, SMB | NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS) | NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS) | NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS) |
*Cost for us-central1 region in USD.
Service levels
Service level fit is evaluated by performance—as a combination of throughput, R/W mix, and latency.
Performance
5 GiB/sec shared by all volumes in a storage pool
16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput)
16 MiB/sec per TiB (Throughput)
64 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput)
128 MiB/sec per TiB, Max 30 GiBps (Throughput)
Price*
($ / GiB / month)
$0.105
(Custom provisioning)
$0.40
$0.20
$0.29
$0.39
Volume size
1 GiB to 307,200 GiB
1 GiB to 102,400 GiB
100 GiB to 102,400 GiB
100 GiB to 102,400 GiB
100 GiB to 102,400 GiB
Large capacity volumes
No
No
No
15 TiB to 3 PiB
15 TiB to 3 PiB
Regional availability
Most Google Cloud regions (see list)
Most Google Cloud regions (see list)
14 Google Cloud regions (see list)
14 Google Cloud regions (see list)
14 Google Cloud regions (see list)
Uptime / SLA
99.9%
99.99%
99.9%
99.95%
99.95%
Protocols
NFSv3/v4.1, SMB
NFSv3/v4.1, SMB
NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)
NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)
NFSv3/v4.1, SMB, Dual (SMB/NFS)
*Cost for us-central1 region in USD.
Business Case
Hear why customers choose Google Cloud Netapp Volumes
Wayfair achieves scale and flexibility with Google Cloud Netapp Volumes
Matt Bruno, Associate Director of Engineering at Wayfair
We always want things better, faster, cheaper. Normally, we don't land all three. But with Google Cloud Netapp Volumes, we were able to. Wayfair is an e-commerce company. And for us, that's connecting a catalog of 20 million products to tens of millions of customers, and having a technology platform that can drive and support that layer of personalization. Our previous storage solution was still one of our free cloud legacy implementations, and it wasn't letting our experience teams take full advantage of Google Cloud and the proper distributed and scalable workloads...Google Cloud Netapp Volumes lets us put that data closer to our customer experience. It lets us distribute it closer to where our compute and software solutions live, and it builds more of a geographic diversity to our platform.
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FAQ
What enterprise workloads can Google Cloud NetApp Volumes support, and what are its performance capabilities?
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes supports diverse enterprise workloads like file services, SAP, Windows applications, VMware datastores, and databases. It also excels with high-performance demands like EDA. Performance varies by service level (Flex, Standard, Premium, Extreme), offering up to 30 GiB/s throughput for single volumes on Premium and Extreme. Flex provides independent capacity and performance scaling, reaching 5 GiB/s throughput and 160K IOPS, ensuring optimal resource allocation.
How does Google Cloud NetApp Volumes help with data protection, business continuity, and disaster recovery?
It offers robust data protection via automated, space-efficient snapshots for rapid recovery and integrated backup for long-term retention. Cross-region volume replication enables strong disaster recovery and business continuity. Flex Regional protects against zonal outages and rapid cloning for dev/test environments further reduce downtime and accelerate development. These features minimize RPOs and RTOs, crucial for enterprise-grade data resilience.
What about security and compliance? Can Google Cloud NetApp Volumes help my organization meet its regulatory obligations?
Absolutely. Data is secured with encryption at rest and in transit, supporting Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK). Access is controlled by Google Cloud IAM and integrated with Active Directory. All data access occurs via private VPC connections. Critically, it supports Google Cloud Assured Workloads to help meet stringent compliance requirements (e.g., ISO, SOC, HIPAA) with pre-configured environments and detailed audit logging, simplifying regulatory adherence.
How does Google Cloud NetApp Volumes help reduce costs and optimize storage in the cloud?
It optimizes costs through consumption-based pricing and flexible service levels, allowing you to right-size performance and capacity. The Flex service level uniquely allows independent scaling of capacity and performance for precise resource allocation. Additionally, Auto-Tiering (available on Flex Zonal, Premium and Extreme service levels) will provide customers an option to automatically move infrequently accessed data from a high-performance, high-cost storage tier (hot tier) to a lower-cost, lower-performance storage tier (cold tier). Furthermore, Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) offer significant savings for predictable usage, and as a fully managed service, it reduces operational overhead.
