Cloud storage and data management solution

With the NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP® offering, you can run data management software in the public cloud by using your existing cloud infrastructure. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to build storage for mission-critical applications, databases, containers, and user files in Azure by using NetApp’s enterprise-grade technology, which provides security, resilience, high availability, and optimizes cost-performance. With this offering, you can now deploy a free lightweight version of Cloud Volumes ONTAP to test-drive and become familiar with its capabilities in your own environment.

Direct deployment of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Experience Cloud Volumes ONTAP firsthand with our user-friendly direct deployment offering in the Azure Marketplace! This “light and easy” deployment is a great option if you are starting your hybrid cloud journey and want to familiarize yourself with Cloud Volumes ONTAP. With this offering, there is no need for any additional management agents in your environment. It is just a quick and direct deployment process that you can complete in less than 10 minutes.

Key use cases and workloads for Cloud Volumes ONTAP

File and block storage: Enterprise-grade, unified file sharing in the cloud, and big data analytics.
Business applications: Relational databases and NoSQL databases.
DevOps solutions: Persistent data for cloud-native applications, and continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
Disaster recovery: Cloud-based disaster recovery for both on-premises and cloud environments.
Secondary workloads: Supplementary workloads for development and testing environments.

Key benefits of the Cloud Volumes ONTAP direct deployment offering

Fast deployment: Setting up this Cloud Volumes ONTAP offering is a streamlined process that requires just a few simple steps. In less than 10 minutes, you can begin creating volumes (for NFS), LUNs (for iSCSI), or shares (for CIFS).
Reduced complexity: This deployment method eliminates the requirement to create a NetApp BlueXP™ connector, which simplifies the setup of a Cloud Volumes ONTAP instance in Azure.
Commitment-free trial: With this free direct deployment offering, you can explore and evaluate the rich capabilities of Cloud Volumes ONTAP before you commit.

Getting started

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

Click the Create prompt that is highlighted at the top of the listing.
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 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.

Have any questions?

For questions, concerns, or assistance, contact our Azure team directly.

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