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Azure NetApp Files is an Azure native, first-party, enterprise-class, high-performance file storage service. It provides volumes as a service for which you can create NetApp accounts, capacity pools, select service and performance levels, create volumes, and manage data protection. It allows you to create and manage high-performance, highly available, and scalable file shares, using the same protocols and tools that you're familiar with and enterprise applications rely on on-premises. Azure NetApp Files supports SMB and NFS protocols and can be used for various use cases such as file sharing, home directories, databases, high-performance computing and more. Additionally, it also provides built-in availability, data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.
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Azure NetApp Files is an Azure native, first-party, enterprise-class, high-performance file storage service. It provides _Volumes as a service_ for which you can create NetApp accounts, capacity pools, volumes, select service and performance levels, and manage data protection. It allows you to create and manage high-performance, highly available, and scalable file shares, using the same protocols and tools that you're familiar with and enterprise applications rely on on-premises.
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## High performance
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Azure NetApp Files’ key attributes are:
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Azure NetApp Files is designed to provide high-performance file storage for enterprise workloads. Key features that contribute to the high performance include:
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- Performance, cost optimization and scale
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- Simplicity and availability
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- Data management and security
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* High throughput:
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Azure NetApp Files supports high throughput for large file transfers and can handle many random read and write operations with high concurrency, over the Azure high-speed network. This functionality helps to ensure that your workloads aren't bottlenecked by VM disk storage performance. Azure NetApp Files supports multiple service levels, such that you can choose the optimal mix of capacity, performance and cost.
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* Low latency:
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Azure NetApp Files is built on top of an all-flash bare-metal fleet, which is optimized for low latency, high throughput, and random IO. This functionality helps to ensure that your workloads experience optimal (low) storage latency.
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* Protocols:
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Azure NetApp Files supports both SMB, NFSv3/NFSv4.1, and dual-protocol volumes, which are the most common protocols used in enterprise environments. This functionality allows you to use the same protocols and tools that you use on-premises, which helps to ensure compatibility and ease of use. It supports NFS `nconnect` and SMB multichannel for increased network performance.
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* Scale:
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Azure NetApp Files can scale up or down to meet the performance and capacity needs of your workloads. You can increase or decrease the size of your volumes as needed, and the service automatically provisions the necessary throughput.
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* Changing of service levels:
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With Azure NetApp Files, you can dynamically and online change your volumes’ service levels to tune your capacity and performance needs whenever you need to. This functionality can even be fully automated through APIs.
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* Optimized for workloads:
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Azure NetApp Files is optimized for workloads like HPC, IO-intensive, and database scenarios. It provides high performance, high availability, and scalability for demanding workloads.
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Azure NetApp Files supports SMB, NFS and dual protocols volumes and can be used for various use cases such as:
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- file sharing
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- home directories
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- databases
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- high-performance computing and more
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All these features work together to provide a high-performance file storage solution that can handle the demands of enterprise workloads. They help to ensure that your workloads experience optimal (low) storage latency.
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For more information about workload solutions leveraging Azure NetApp Files, see [Solution architectures using Azure NetApp Files](azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures.md).
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## High availability
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## Performance, cost optimization, and scale
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Azure NetApp Files is designed to provide high availability for your file storage needs. Key features that contribute to the high availability include:
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Azure NetApp Files is designed to provide high-performance file storage for enterprise workloads and provide functionality to provide cost optimization and scale. Key features that contribute to these include:
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* Automatic failover:
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Azure NetApp Files supports automatic failover within the bare-metal fleet if there's disruption or maintenance event. This functionality helps to ensure that your data is always available, even in a failure.
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* Multi-protocol access:
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Azure NetApp Files supports both SMB and NFS protocols, helping to ensure that your applications can access your data, regardless of the protocol they use.
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* Self-healing:
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Azure NetApp Files is built on top of a self-healing storage infrastructure, which helps to ensure that your data is always available and recoverable.
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* Support for Availability Zones:
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Volumes can be deployed in an Availability Zones of choice, enabling you to build HA application architectures for increased application availability.
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* Data replication:
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Azure NetApp Files supports data replication between different Azure regions and Availability Zones, which helps to ensure that your data is always available, even in an outage.
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* Azure NetApp Files provides a high [availability SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/netapp/).
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| Functionality | Description | Benefit |
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| In-Azure bare-metal flash performance | Fast and reliable all-flash performance with submillisecond latency | Run performance-intensive workloads in the cloud with on-premises infrastructure-level performance
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| Multi-protocol support | Supports multiple protocols including NFSv3, NFSv4.1, SMB 3.0, SMB 3.1.1 and simultaneous dual-protocol | Seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure and workflows without compatibility issues or complex configurations. |
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| Three flexible performance tiers (standard, premium, ultra) | Three performance tiers with dynamic service level change capability based on workload needs, including cool access for cold data | Choose the right performance level for workloads and dynamically adjust performance without overspending on resources.
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| Small-to-large volumes | Easily resize file volumes from 100 GiB up to 100 TiB without downtime | Scale storage as business needs grow without over-provisioning, avoiding upfront cost.
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| 1-TiB minimum capacity pool size | 1-TiB capacity pool is a reduced size storage pool compared to the initial 4 TiB minimum | Save money by starting with a smaller storage footprint and lower entry point, without sacrificing performance or availability. Scale storage based on growth without high upfront costs.
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| 1000-TiB maximum capacity pool | 1000-TiB capacity pool is an increased storage pool compared to the initial 500 TiB maximum | Reduce waste by creating larger, pooled capacity and performance budget and share/distribute across volumes.
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| 100-500 TiB large volumes | Store large volumes of data up to 500 TiB in a single volume | Manage large data sets and high-performance workloads with ease.
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| User and group quotas | Set quotas on storage usage for individual users and groups | Control storage usage and optimize resource allocation.
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| Virtual machine (VM) networked storage performance | Higher VM network throughput compared to disk IO limits enable more-demanding workloads on smaller Azure VMs | Improve application performance at a smaller virtual machine footprint, improving overall efficiency and lowering application license cost.
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| Deep workload readiness | Seamless deployment and migration of any-size workload with well-documented deployment guides | Easily migrate any workload of any size to the platform. Enjoy a seamless, cost-effective deployment and migration experience.
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| Datastores for Azure VMware Solution | Use Azure NetApp Files as a storage solution for VMware workloads in Azure, reducing the need for superfluous compute nodes normally included with Azure VMware Solution expansions | Save money by eliminating the need for unnecessary compute nodes when expanding storage, resulting in significant cost savings.
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| Standard storage with cool access | Use the cool access option of Azure NetApp Files Standard service level to move inactive data transparently from Azure NetApp Files Standard service-level storage (the hot tier) to an Azure storage account (the cool tier) | Save money by transitioning data that resides within Azure NetApp Files volumes (the hot tier) by moving blocks to the lower cost storage (the cool tier). |
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All these features work together to provide a high-availability file storage solution to ensure that your data is always available, recoverable, and accessible to your applications, even in an outage.
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These features work together to provide a high-performance file storage solution for the demands of enterprise workloads. They help to ensure that your workloads experience optimal (low) storage latency, cost and scale.
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## Data protection
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## Simplicity and availability
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Azure NetApp Files provides built-in data protection to help ensure the safe storage, availability, and recoverability of your data. Key features include:
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Azure NetApp Files is designed to provide simplicity and high availability for your file storage needs. Key features include:
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* Snapshot copies:
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Azure NetApp Files allows you to create point-in-time snapshots of your volumes, which can be restored or reverted to a previous state. The snapshots are incremental. That is, they only capture the changes made since the last snapshot, at the block level, which helps to drastically reduce storage consumption.
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* Backup and restore:
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Azure NetApp Files provides integrated backup, which allows you to create backups of your volume snapshots to lower-cost Azure storage and restore them if data loss happens.
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* Data replication:
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Azure NetApp Files supports data replication between different Azure regions and Availability Zones, which helps to ensure high availability and disaster recovery. Replication can be done asynchronously, and the service can fail over to a secondary region or zone in an outage.
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* Security:
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Azure NetApp Files provides built-in security features such as RBAC/IAM, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Microsoft Entra Domain Services and LDAP integration, and Azure Policy. This functionality helps to protect data from unauthorized access, breaches, and misconfigurations.
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All these features work together to provide a comprehensive data protection solution that helps to ensure that your data is always available, recoverable, and secure.
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| Functionality | Description | Benefit |
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| Volumes as a Service | Provision and manage volumes in minutes with a few clicks like any other Azure service | Enables businesses to quickly and easily provision and manage volumes without the need for dedicated hardware or complex configurations.
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| Native Azure Integration | Integration with the Azure portal, REST, CLI, billing, monitoring, and security | Simplifies management and ensures consistency with other Azure services, while providing a familiar interface and integration with existing tools and workflows.
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| High availability | Azure NetApp Files provides a [high availability SLA](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/legal/sla/netapp/) with automatic failover | Ensures that data is always available and accessible, avoiding downtime and disruption to business operations.
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| Application migration | Migrate applications to Azure without refactoring | Enables businesses to move their workloads to Azure quickly and easily without the need for costly and time-consuming application refactoring or redesign.
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| Cross-region and cross-zone replication | Replicate data between regions or zones | Provide disaster recovery capabilities and ensure data availability and redundancy across different Azure regions or availability zones.
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| Application volume groups | Application volume groups enable you to deploy all application volumes according to best practices in a single one-step and optimized workflow | Simplified multi-volume deployment for applications, ensuring volumes and mount points are optimized and adhere to best practices in a single step, saving time and effort.
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| Programmatic deployment | Automate deployment and management with APIs and SDKs | Enables businesses to integrate Azure NetApp Files with their existing automation and management tools, reducing the need for manual intervention and improving efficiency.
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| Fault-tolerant bare metal | Built on a fault-tolerant bare metal fleet powered by ONTAP | Ensures high performance and reliability by leveraging a robust, fault-tolerant storage platform and powerful data management capabilities provided by ONTAP.
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| Azure native billing | Integrates natively with Azure billing, providing a seamless and easy-to-use billing experience, based on hourly usage | Easily and accurately manage and track the cost of using the service, allowing for seamless budgeting and cost control. Easily track usage and expenses directly from the Azure portal, providing a unified experience for billing and management. |
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These features work together to provide a simple-to-use and highly available file storage solution to ensure that your data is easy to manage and always available, recoverable, and accessible to your applications even in an outage.
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## Data management and security
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Azure NetApp Files provides built-in data management and security capabilities to help ensure the secure storage, availability, and manageability of your data. Key features include:
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| Efficient snapshots and backup | Advanced data protection and faster recovery of data by leveraging block-efficient, incremental snapshots and vaulting | Quickly and easily backup data and restore to a previous point in time, minimizing downtime and reducing the risk of data loss.
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| Snapshot restore to a new volume | Instantly restore data from a previously taken snapshot quickly and accurately | Reduce downtime and save time and resources that would otherwise be spent on restoring data from backups.
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| Snapshot revert | Revert volume to the state it was in when a previous snapshot was taken | Easily and quickly recover data (in-place) to a known good state, ensuring business continuity and maintaining productivity.
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| Application-aware snapshots and backup | Ensure application-consistent snapshots with guaranteed recoverability | Automate snapshot creation and deletion processes, reducing manual efforts and potential errors while increasing productivity by allowing teams to focus on other critical tasks.
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| Efficient cloning | Create and access clones in seconds | Save time and reduce costs for test, development, system refresh and analytics.
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| Data-in-transit encryption | Secure data transfers with protocol encryption | Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data being transmitted, with peace of mind that information is safe and secure.
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| Data-at-rest encryption | Data-at-rest encryption with platform- or customer-managed keys | Prevent unrestrained access to stored data, meet compliance requirements and enhance data security.
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| Azure platform integration and compliance certifications | Compliance with regulatory requirements and Azure platform integration | Adhere to Azure standards and regulatory compliance, ensure audit and governance completion.
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| Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Azure role-based access control (RBAC) service allows you to manage permissions for resources at any level | Simplify access management and improve compliance with Azure-native RBAC, empowering you to easily control user access to configuration management.
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| AD/LDAP authentication, export policies & access control lists (ACLs) | Authenticate and authorize access to data using existing AD/LDAP credentials and allow for the creation of export policies and ACLs to govern data access and usage | Prevent data breaches and ensure compliance with data security regulations, with enhanced granular control over access to data volumes, directories and files. |
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These features work together to provide a comprehensive data management solution that helps to ensure that your data is always available, recoverable, and secure.
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## Next steps
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*[Understand the storage hierarchy of Azure NetApp Files](azure-netapp-files-understand-storage-hierarchy.md)
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*[Quickstart: Set up Azure NetApp Files and create an NFS volume](azure-netapp-files-quickstart-set-up-account-create-volumes.md)
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*[Create an Azure support request](../azure-portal/supportability/how-to-create-azure-support-request.md)
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*[Understand NAS concepts in Azure NetApp Files](network-attached-storage-concept.md)
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*[Register for NetApp Resource Provider](azure-netapp-files-register.md)
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*[Solution architectures using Azure NetApp Files](azure-netapp-files-solution-architectures.md)
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