- Documentation enhancement - Table of Content restructure
- Articles under Concepts are now grouped into subcategories.
- The single FAQ article is now split into individual articles according to the subject.
- Regional capacity quota is now a standalone article.
- [new feature] Standard network features
- [new] Configure network features for a volume - Describes network feature registration and configuration steps.
- Guidelines for Azure NetApp Files network planning - New and updated subsections:
- [new] Configurable network features
- Constraints
- Supported network topologies
- UDRs and NSGs - What's new - Feature announcement.
- Create an NFS volume, Create an SMB volume, Create a dual-protocol volume – Added a mention about the Network Features UI and point to the new article for steps.
- Troubleshoot volume errors - Error messages related to volume allocation
- Networking FAQs for Azure NetApp Files - Removed entry "Does Azure NetApp Files support Network Security Groups?", which indicated NSG isn't supported.
- The Azure NetApp Files service no longer requires waitlist registration:
- Register for NetApp Resource Provider - Removed Waitlist section; retitled article.
- Quickstart: Set up Azure NetApp Files and NFS volume - Removed Waitlist requirement
- Create a NetApp account - Removed Waitlist requirement
- What is Azure NetApp Files - Removed Waitlist requirement
- Troubleshoot Resource Provider errors - Removed Waitlist requirement
- Understand cross-region replication:
- Is now generally available (GA):
- Removed waitlist/registration requirement from all relevant articles, incl.:
- What’s New – Announcing GA of cross-region replication.
- Azure NetApp Files for Azure Government - Update Cross-region replication status to GA for public cloud.
- Added more supported pairs:
- Added to Azure regional pairs:
- Asia-Pacific : East Asia <> Southeast Asia
- Switzerland: Switzerland North <> Switzerland West
- US Government: US Gov Arizona <> US Gov Texas
- Added to Azure regional non-standard pairs:
- US Government: US Gov Arizona <> US Gov Virginia
- Added to Azure regional pairs:
- Is now generally available (GA):
- NFS FAQ - Updated Can I use the same file path (volume creation token) for multiple volumes__.
- Enable Continuous Availability on existing SMB volumes - Added reminder: Continuous Availability should be enabled only for SQL Server and FSLogix user profile containers.
- Configure export policy for NFS or dual protocol - Clarified that the Root Access option is not available for NFSv4.1 Kerberos volumes.
- Requirements and considerations for Azure NetApp Files backup – Added consideration: ANF backup is not supported on a cross-region replication destination volume.
- Solution architectures using Azure NetApp Files -
- Subsection File sharing and Global File Caching
- Subsection Machine Learning
- Subsection Azure Kubernetes Services and Kubernetes
- [updated] Integrate Azure NetApp Files with Azure Kubernetes Service - Updated with details about how to create ANF volumes to be used by pods in an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster by using Astra Trident. (Contribution from NetApp AKS team)
- [new feature] Azure NetApp Files backup
- [new] Understand Azure NetApp Files backup
- [new] Requirements and considerations for Azure NetApp Files backup
- [new] Configure policy-based backups
- [new] Configure manual backups
- [new] Manage backup policies
- [new] Search backups
- [new] Restore a backup to a new volume
- [new] Disable backup functionality
- [new] Delete backups
- What's new - Feature announcement.
- How Azure NetApp Files snapshots work -
- [New subsections] How snapshots can be vaulted for long-term retention and cost savings, Restoring volume backups from vaulted snapshots, and Deleting vaulted snapshots.
- Updates throughout the article.
- Azure NetApp Files backup FAQs - Added backup FAQs.
- Resource limits - Added backup resource limits to table.
- Volume backup metrics - Added backup metrics
- [new] Azure NetApp Files for Azure Government - Describes Azure NetApp Files feature availability in Azure Government and how to access the Azure NetApp Files service within Azure Government.
- [new option] Administrators for Active Directory connections
- Create and manage Active Directory connections – Under Step 3 (Protocol), added Administrators bullet for the new UI.
- What's new – Added introduction about Administrators
- Resource limits for Azure NetApp Files - Default limit for the number of cross-region replication data protection volumes (destination volumes) has been updated to 10.
- Create and manage Active Directory connections -- Subsection Azure Active Directory Domain Services added POSIX attribute consideration about using AADDS with a dual-protocol volume.
- Configure an NFS client for Azure NetApp Files - Subsection RHEL 8 configuration if you are using dual protocol has updated details about ldap_id_mapping and other configurations under Step 3.
- Configure ADDS LDAP with extended groups for NFS –
- Updated guidelines about `objectClass` values for POSIX attributes.
- Clarified that the feature enables access to files and directories in the volume.
- Create a dual-protocol volume - Updated guidelines about `objectClass` values for POSIX attributes.
- Enable Continuous Availability on existing SMB volumes - Step 4 updated for clarity.
- Understand cross-region replication - Restructured tables to list geo(s) by pair and Azure regional pairs added the following:
- North Central US and South Central US
- US Gov Virginia and US Gov Texas
- Manage disaster recovery - Updated subsection Resync volumes after disaster recovery with additional explanation about the resync operation.
- Metrics for Azure NetApp Files – Removed an unsupported metric.
- Performance articles updated:
- Performance benchmark test recommendations for Azure NetApp Files – Updated overview.
- Performance benchmarks for Linux – Updated details about the graphs.
- Solution architectures using Azure NetApp Files:
- [new subsection] Azure Red Hat Openshift - Added Using Trident to Automate Azure NetApp Files from OpenShift
- SQL Server - Added SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines with Azure NetApp Files - Azure Example Scenarios
- Oracle - Added Oracle Database with Azure NetApp Files - Azure Example Scenarios
- SAP HANA - Added SAP HANA Disaster Recovery with Azure NetApp Files
- FAQs about Azure NetApp Files - Added new subsection Application resilience FAQs.
- Release Notes for AzAcSnap - AzAcSnap v5.0.2 is available.
- Doc enhancements:
- Table of content (TOC) restructure: Articles in How-To Guides section are further categorized and grouped under sub-nodes.
- Split subsections of article Manage snapshots into standalone articles:
- [new feature] Chown mode export policy support and chmod (Unix permissions)
- [new] Configure Unix permissions and change ownership mode – Describes setting the Unix permissions and the change ownership mode (Chown Mode) options for NFS volumes or dual-protocol volumes with the ‘Unix’ security style.
- Configure export policy – Added new UI Chown Mode.
- Create an NFS volume and Create a dual-protocol volume – Step 3 (Protocol tab) describes new UI Unix permissions**.**
- What's New - Feature announcement.
- [new feature] Dual protocol access for NFSv4.1 and SMB
- Create a dual-protocol volume –
- Updated Security Style details.
- Step 3 (Protocol) added new UI elements Versions and Kerberos; added AFEC registration for using NFSv4.1 and SMB dual protocol.
- Create an NFS volume, Create an SMB volume, Configure export policy for an NFS volume - Added "NFSv4.1 and SMB" as supported versions for dual-protocol.
- What's new - Feature announcement.
- Create a dual-protocol volume –
- [new feature] Support for enabling Continuous Availability on existing SMB volumes:
- [new] Enable Continuous Availability on existing SMB volumes – Describes editing an SMB volume to enable the Enable Continuous Availability option.
- What's new – Feature announcement.
- Removed previously published article “Convert existing SMB volumes to use Continuous Availability” (no longer applicable).
- Snapshot policy is generally available (GA) –
- Manage snapshots subsection Manage snapshot policies – Removed requirements for snapshot policy feature registration.
- What's new – GA announcement.
- Understand cross-region replication –
- Supported Azure regional pairs now include:
- UAE North and UAE Central
- Norway East and Norway West
- Supported Azure regional non-standard pairs now include:
- Germany West Central and France Central
- Supported Azure regional pairs now include:
- Resource limits for Azure NetApp Files -- The following subsections of are updated to reflect the Quota blade in portal:
- FAQs about Azure NetApp Files - Added new entry:
- Clarification about SMB share permissions :
- Create an SMB volume - Removed Share Permissions subsection (no longer applicable).
- Added FAQ entry Can the SMB share permissions be changed?
- Delegate a subnet to Azure NetApp Files - Consideration about the wizard for creating a new subnet is updated with additional details.
- Create and manage Active Directory connections –
- Removed the requirement about _usi_ng Enterprise or Premium SKUs with Azure NetApp Files.
- Added reminder to update password configured in the Active Directory Connections if you change the password of the Active Directory user account that is used in Azure NetApp Files.
- Create volume replication - Added a note that you might see a difference between the used space of the source volume and the used space of the destination volume.
- Linux concurrency best practices - NFSv3 subsections Example 4 and How to calculate concurrency settings by connection count have updated best practices.
- "Windows Virtual Desktop" is now "Azure Virtual Desktop". The following articles are updated with the name change: