Experience Cloud Volumes ONTAP firsthand with our user-friendly direct deployment offering! If you are starting your hybrid cloud journey and want to familiarize yourself with Cloud Volumes ONTAP, this is a great option for you. There is no need for any additional management agents in your environment - you can complete this “light and easy” deployment process in fewer than 10 minutes.

Key Benefits

Hybrid cloud ready: Seamlessly integrate with on-prem ONTAP systems for backup, disaster recovery, and data mobility.
Multi-protocol support: Manage file, block and object workloads in the cloud with a single, software-defined storage system.
Frictionless deployment: Use your existing cloud infrastructure to deploy CVO in Azure—no agents or connectors needed.
Mission-critical performance: Built on NetApp ONTAP®, CVO delivers high availability, resilience, and performance across demanding workloads.
Advanced data management: Benefit from built-in storage efficiencies, tiering, snapshots, and replication capabilities to optimize cost and protect data.
Enterprise-grade security: Protect your data with built-in encryption, role-based access control, and advanced ransomware protection features.
Commitment-free trial: Deploy a free, lightweight version of CVO to test-drive its capabilities before scaling to production.

Key use cases and features

File and block storage for Enterprise workloads.
Databases and Business apps: Supports relational and NoSQL databases with high performance.
DevOps & containers: Persistent storage for Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native apps
Disaster recovery & backup: Cloud-based disaster recovery for both on-premises and cloud environments.
Secondary workloads: Supplementary workloads for development and testing environments.
Hybrid cloud integration: Unified data management across on-prem and cloud with SnapMirror
Advanced data services: Built-in snapshots, replication, tiering, and ransomware protection
Secure by design: Role-based access control, encryption and compliance-ready architecture

Getting Started

You can get started with your direct deployment of Cloud Volumes ONTAP® in just a few steps directly through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace portal. From this page:

Click the `Create` prompt that is highlighted at the top of the listing page.
You will then be directed to the offering page. Select a plan.
Follow the highlighted steps to finalize your basic configuration selections, including networking, security, and tags.
Click Review + Create to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP®.
Upon successful deployment, you’ll receive a login prompt. After you log in (with your configured username and password), you are ready to go and can begin creating volumes (for NFS), LUNs (for iSCSI), or shares (for CIFS).

Note: You can use NetApp ONTAP System Manager or CLI to perform ONTAP upgrades and other configuration changes.

Support

As a Freemium deployment of Cloud Volumes ONTAP® with no time limit, this offering does not include NetApp Customer Support. More details on prerequisites and support can be found in the technical documentation.

Learn More

Azure deployment guide

Product documentation

Cloud Volumes ONTAP product page

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