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Learn about the most recent changes to the features and data services that are part of the NetApp Console. For a complete release history, go to the full set of release notes for each individual service.

Administrative features

This section describes new features related to NetApp Console administration features: organizations, identify and access, Console agents, cloud provider credentials, and more.

6 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration that is highly secure and compliant.

NetApp moved most menu options to the left-navigation pane and reorganized menus for easier navigation in the NetApp Console.

Canvas is replaced by the Systems page

NetApp renamed the Canvas to the Systems page. Navigate to the System page from the Storage > Management menu.

A screenshot of the systems page.

Expanded Storage menu

The Storage menu includes Alerts to view ONTAP system alerts and Lifecycle planning (formerly Economic efficiency) to identify unused or underutilized resources.

NetApp has moved Keystone to the Storage menu, where you can manage your NetApp Keystone subscriptions and view your usage.

A screenshot of the Storage menu.

Administration menu

Use the centralized Administration menu to manage the NetApp Console, support cases, licenses, and subscriptions (previously called digital wallet).

A screenshot of the Administration menu.

Health menu

An efficient Health menu includes Software updates where you can manage ONTAP software updates, Sustainability where you can monitor your environmental impact, and Digital Advisor where you can get proactive recommendations to optimize your storage environment.

A screenshot of the health menu.

Governance menu

The Governance menu includes Data Classification where you can manage data classification and compliance and the Automation hub where you can create and manage automation workflows.

A screenshot of the Governance menu.

More intuitive naming of elements, data services, and features

NetApp renamed several elements, data services, and features to clarify their purpose. Key changes include:

Previous name NetApp Console name

Connectors

Console agents.

View, add, and manage your agents from the Administration > Agents menu.

Timeline page

Audit page

View audit Console activity from the Administration > Audit menu.

Working environments

Systems

View, add, and manage your systems from the Storage > Management menu.

BlueXP Ransomware protection

NetApp Ransomware Resilience.

Ransomware Resilience helps you protect your data and recover quickly from a ransomware attack.

BlueXP Economic Efficiency

Lifecycle planning.

Lifecycle planning helps you optimize your storage costs by identifying unused and underutilized resources.

Access Lifecycle planning from the Storage > Lifecycle planning menu.

BlueXP digital wallet

Licenses and subscriptions

Access your licenses and subscriptions from the Administration > Licenses and subscriptions menu.

Console agents

Access and manage your Console agents from the Administration > Agents menu. NetApp has changed how to select a Console agent for the Systems page (formerly the Canvas). NetApp has replaced the Connector menu name with an icon agent icon, allowing you to select the Console agent that you want to view systems for.

A screenshot that shows the icon to select a Console agent.

You can also manage your agents from the Administration > Agents menu.

Console agent 4.0.0

This release of the Console agent includes security improvements, bug fixes and the following new features.

The 4.0.0 release is available for standard mode and restricted mode.

Consolidation and reduction of required network endpoints

NetApp has reduced the required network endpoints for the Console and Console agents, enhancing security and simplifying deployment. Importantly, all deployments prior to version 4.0.0 continue to be fully supported. While previous endpoints remain available for existing agents, NetApp strongly recommends updating firewall rules to the current endpoints after confirming successful agent upgrades.

Support for VCenter deployment of Console agents

You can deploy Console agents in VMware environments using an OVA file. The OVA file includes a pre-configured VM image with Console agent software and settings to connect to the NetApp Console. A file download or URL deployment is available directly from the NetApp Console. Learn how to deploy a Console agent in VMware environments.

The Console agent OVA for VMware offers a pre-configured VM image for quick deployment.

Validation reports for failed agent deployments

When you deploy a Console agent from the NetApp Console, you now have the option to validate the agent configuration. If the Console fails to deploy the agent, it provides a downloadable report to help you troubleshoot.

Improved troubleshooting for Console agents

The Console agent has improved error messages that help you better understand issues. Learn how to troubleshoot Console agents.

NetApp Console

NetApp Console administration includes the following new features:

Home page dashboard

The NetApp Console's Home page dashboard provides real-time visibility into storage infrastructure with metrics for health, capacity, license status, and data services. Learn more about the Home page.

NetApp assistant

New users with the Organization admin role can use the NetApp assistant to configure the Console, including adding an agent, linking a NetApp Support account, and adding a storage system.
Learn about the NetApp assistant.

Service account authentication

The NetApp Console supports service account authentication using either a system-generated client ID and secret or customer-managed JWTs, allowing organizations to select the approach that best fits their security requirements and integration workflows. Private Key JWT Client Authentication uses asymmetric cryptography, providing stronger security than traditional client ID and secret methods. Private Key JWT Client Authentication uses asymmetric cryptography, keeping the private key secure in the customer’s environment, reducing credential theft risks, and improving the security of your automation stack and client applications. Learn how to add a service account.

Session timeouts

The system logs out users after 24 hours or when they close their web browser.

Support for partnerships between organizations

You can create partnerships in the NetApp Console that let partners securely manage NetApp resources across organizational boundaries, making collaboration easier and security stronger. Learn how to manage partnerships.

Super admin and Super viewer roles

Added the Super admin and Super viewer roles. Super admin grants full management access to Console features, storage, and data services. Super viewer provides read-only visibility for auditors and stakeholders. These roles are useful for smaller teams of senior members where broad access is common. For improved security and auditability, organizations are encouraged to use Super admin access sparingly and assign fine-grained roles where possible. Learn more about access roles.

Additional role for Ransomware Resilience

Added the Ransomware Resilience user behavior admin role and the Ransomware Resilience user behavior viewer role. These roles allow users to configure and view user behavior and analytics data, respectively. Learn more about access roles.

Removed support chat

NetApp has removed the support chat feature from the NetApp Console. Use the Administration > Support page to create and manage support cases.

11 August 2025

Connector 3.9.55

This release of the BlueXP Connector includes security improvements, and bug fixes.

The 3.9.55 release is available for standard mode and restricted mode.

Japanese language support

The BlueXP UI is now available in the Japanese language. If your browser language is Japanese, BlueXP displays in Japanese. To access documentation in Japanese, use the language menu on the documentation website.

Operational resiliency feature

The Operational resiliency feature has been removed from BlueXP. Contact NetApp support if you encounter issues.

BlueXP Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Identity and Access Management in BlueXP now provides the following feature.

New access role for operational support

BlueXP now supports an Operational support analyst role. This role grants a user permissions to monitor storage alerts, view the BlueXP audit timeline, and enter and track NetApp Support cases.

31 July 2025

Private mode release (3.9.54)

A new private mode release is now available to download from the NetApp Support Site

The 3.9.54 release includes updates to the following BlueXP components and services.

Component or service Version included in this release Changes since the previous private mode release

Connector

3.9.54, 3.9.53

Go to the what's new in BlueXP page and refer to the changes included for versions 3.9.54 and 3.9.53.

Backup and recovery

28 July 2025

Go to the what's new in BlueXP backup and recovery page and refer to the changes included in the July 2025 release.

Classification

14 July 2025 (version 1.45)

Go to the what's new in BlueXP classification page.

For more details about private mode, including how to upgrade, refer to the following:

Alerts

06 October 2025

BlueXP alerts is now ONTAP alerts

BlueXP alerts has been renamed to ONTAP alerts.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Storage > Alerts.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

07 October 2024

BlueXP alerts list page

You can quickly identify ONTAP clusters that have low capacity or low performance, gauge the extent of availability, and identify security risks. You can view alerts related to capacity, performance, protection, availability, security, and configuration.

Alerts details

You can drill into alert details and find recommendations.

View cluster details linked to ONTAP System Manager

With BlueXP alerts, you can view alerts associated with your ONTAP storage environment and drill into the details that are linked to ONTAP System Manager.

Amazon FSx for ONTAP

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what's changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

03 August 2025

Enhancements to Replication relationships tab

We've added several new columns to the replication relationships table to give you more information about your replication relationships in the Replication relationships tab. The table now includes the following columns:

  • SnapMirror policy

  • Source file system

  • Target file system

  • State of the relationship

  • Last transfer time

14 July 2025

Support for replicating data between two FSx for ONTAP file systems

Data replication is now available between two FSx for ONTAP file systems from the canvas in the BlueXP console.

Amazon S3 storage

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
== 05 March 2023

Ability to add new buckets from BlueXP

You have had the ability to view Amazon S3 buckets on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new buckets and change properties for existing buckets directly from BlueXP. See how to add new Amazon S3 buckets.

Azure Blob storage

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect its role in managing your data infrastructure.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

05 June 2023

Ability to add new storage accounts from BlueXP

You have had the ability to view Azure Blob Storage on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new storage accounts and change properties for existing storage accounts directly from BlueXP. Learn how to add new Azure Blob storage accounts.

Azure NetApp Files

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect its role in managing your data infrastructure.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

13 January 2025

Network features now supported in BlueXP

When configuring a volume in Azure NetApp Files from BlueXP, you can now indicate network features. This aligns with functionality available in native Azure NetApp Files.

12 June 2024

New permission required

The following permission is now required to manage Azure NetApp Files volumes from BlueXP:

Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/subnets/read

This permission is required to read a virtual network subnet.

If you're currently managing Azure NetApp Files from BlueXP, you need to add this permission to the custom role that's associated with the Microsoft Entra application that you previously created.

22 April 2024

Volume templates no longer supported

You can no longer create a volume from a template. This action was associated with the BlueXP remediation service, which is no longer available.

Backup and Recovery

06 October 2025

This NetApp Backup and Recovery release includes the following updates.

BlueXP backup and recovery is now NetApp Backup and Recovery

BlueXP backup and recovery has been renamed to NetApp Backup and Recovery.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what's changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Hyper-V workload support as a private preview

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing Hyper-V workloads:

  • Backup and restore VMs on standalone instances as well as failover cluster instances (FCI)

  • Protect VMs stored on SMB3 shares

  • Bulk protection at virtual machine level

  • VM and crash consistent backups

  • Restore VMs from primary, secondary, and object storage

  • Search and restore VM backups

For details about protecting Hyper-V workloads, refer to Protect Hyper-V workloads overview.

KVM workload support as a private preview

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing KVM workloads:

  • Back up and restore qcow2 VM images stored on NFS shares

  • Back up storage pools

  • Bulk VM and storage pool protection using protection groups

  • VM consistent and crash consistent VM backups

  • Search and restore VM backups from primary, secondary, and object storage

  • Guided process to back up and restore KVM-based VMs and VM data

For details about protecting KVM workloads, refer to Protect KVM workloads overview.

Kubernetes preview enhancements

The preview release of Kubernetes workloads introduces the following enhanced capabilities:

  • 3-2-1 Fan out backup architecture support

  • Support for ONTAP S3 as a backup target

  • New Kubernetes dashboard for easier management

  • Enhanced role based access control (RBAC) configuration includes support for the following roles:

    • Backup and Recovery super admin

    • Backup and Recovery backup admin

    • Backup and Recovery restore admin

    • Backup and Recovery viewer

  • Support for SUSE Rancher Kubernetes distribution

  • Multi-bucket support: You can now protect the volumes within a system with multiple buckets per system across different cloud providers

For details about protecting Kubernetes workloads, refer to Protect Kubernetes workloads overview.

VMware preview enhancements

The preview release of VMware workloads introduces the following enhanced capabilities:

  • Support for restoring from object storage

  • NetApp Console Dashboard now displays VMware workload status information

  • Demo Mode support: Explore the features of VMware workloads without adding a VMware vCenter Server environment

  • Role-based access control (RBAC) support

  • Email alert and notification support for job events

  • Support for backing up and restoring to NVMe-based storage

  • Edit protection groups

  • Edit protection policies

For details about protecting VMware workloads, refer to Protect VMware workloads overview.

Oracle Database workload support as a private preview

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing Oracle Database workloads:

  • Discover standalone Oracle databases

  • Create protection policies for data only or data and log backups

  • Protect Oracle databases with a 3-2-1 backup scheme

  • Configure backup retention

  • Mount and unmount ARCHIVELOG backups

  • Virtualized databases

  • Search and restore database backups

  • Oracle dashboard support

For details about protecting Oracle Database workloads, refer to Protect Oracle workloads overview.

25 August 2025

This NetApp Backup and Recovery release includes the following updates.

Support for protecting VMware workloads in Preview

This release adds preview support for protecting VMware workloads. Back up VMware VMs and datastores from on-premises ONTAP systems to Amazon Web Services and StorageGRID.

Note Documentation about protecting VMware workloads is provided as a technology preview. With this preview offering, NetApp reserves the right to modify offering details, contents, and timeline before General Availability.

High performance indexing for AWS, Azure, and GCP is generally available

In February 2025, we announced the preview of high performance indexing (Indexed Catalog v2) for AWS, Azure, and GCP. This feature is now generally available (GA). In June 2025, we provided it to all new customers by default. With this release, the support is available to all customers. High performance indexing improves the performance of backup and restore operations for workloads that are protected to object storage.

Enabled by default:

  • If you are a new customer, high performance indexing is enabled by default.

  • If you are an existing customer, you can enable reindexing by going to the Restore section of the UI.

12 August 2025

This NetApp Backup and Recovery release includes the following updates.

Microsoft SQL Server workload supported in General Availability (GA)

Microsoft SQL Server workload support is now generally available (GA) in NetApp Backup and Recovery. Organizations using an MSSQL environment on ONTAP, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage can now take advantage of this new backup and recovery service to protect their data.

This release includes the following enhancements to the Microsoft SQL Server workload support from the previous preview version:

  • SnapMirror active sync: This version now supports SnapMirror active sync (also referred to as SnapMirror Business Continuity [SM-BC]), which enables business services to continue operating even through a complete site failure, supporting applications to fail over transparently using a secondary copy. NetApp Backup and Recovery now supports protection of Microsoft SQL Server databases in a SnapMirror active sync and Metrocluster configuration. The information appears in the Storage and relationship status section of the Protection details page. The relationship information is displayed in the updated Secondary settings section of the Policy page.

    Protection details page for Microsoft SQL Server workload

  • Multi-bucket support: You can now protect the volumes within a working environment with up to 6 buckets per working environment across different cloud providers.

  • Licensing and free trial updates for SQL Server workloads: You can now use the existing NetApp Backup and Recovery licensing model to protect SQL Server workloads. There is no separate licensing requirement for SQL Server workloads.

  • Custom snapshot name: You can now use your own snapshot name in a policy that governs the backups for Microsoft SQL Server workloads. Enter this information in the Advanced settings section of the Policy page.

    SnapMirror and snapshot format settings screenshot for NetApp Backup and Recovery policies

  • Secondary volume prefix and suffix: You can enter a custom prefix and suffix in the Advanced settings section of the Policy page.

  • Identity and access: You can now control users' access to features.

  • Restore from object storage to an alternate host: You can now restore from object storage to an alternate host even if the primary storage is down.

  • Log backup data: The database protection details page now shows log backups. You can see the Backup type column that shows whether the backup is a full backup or a log backup.

  • Enhanced Dashboard: The Dashboard now shows Storage and Clone savings.

    NetApp Backup and Recovery Dashboard

ONTAP volume workload enhancements

  • Multi-folder restore for ONTAP volumes: Until now, you could restore either one folder or multiple files at a time from the Browse and restore feature. NetApp Backup and Recovery now provides the ability to select multiple folders at a time using the Browse and restore feature.

  • View and manage backups of deleted volumes: The NetApp Backup and Recovery Dashboard now gives an option to show and manage volumes that are deleted from ONTAP. With this, you can view and delete backups from volumes that no longer exist in ONTAP.

  • Force delete backups: In some extreme cases, you might want NetApp Backup and Recovery not to have access to backups any longer. This might happen for example, if the service no longer has access to the backup bucket or backups are DataLock protected but you don't want them anymore. Previously, you could not delete these yourself and needed to call NetApp Support. With this release, you can use the option to force delete backups (at volume and work environment levels).

Caution Use this option carefully and only in extreme cleanup needs. NetApp Backup and Recovery will not have access to these backups any longer even if they are not deleted in the object storage. You will need to go to your cloud provider and manually delete the backups.

28 July 2025

This NetApp Backup and Recovery release includes the following updates.

Kubernetes workload support as a Preview

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing Kubernetes workloads:

  • Discover Red Hat OpenShift and open-source Kubernetes clusters, backed by NetApp ONTAP, without sharing kubeconfig files.

  • Discover, manage, and protect applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters using a unified control plane.

  • Offload data movement operations for backup and recovery of Kubernetes applications to NetApp ONTAP.

  • Orchestrate local and object-storage-based application backups.

  • Back up and restore entire applications and individual resources to any Kubernetes clusters.

  • Work with containers and virtual machines running on Kubernetes.

  • Create application-consistent backups using execution hooks and templates.

For details about protecting Kubernetes workloads, refer to Protect Kubernetes workloads overview.

14 July 2025

This NetApp Backup and Recovery release includes the following updates.

Enhanced ONTAP volume Dashboard

In April 2025, we launched a preview of an enhanced ONTAP volume Dashboard that is much faster and more efficient.

This dashboard was designed to help enterprise customers with a high number of workloads. Even for customers with 20,000 volumes, the new dashboard loads in <10 seconds.

After a successful preview and great feedback from preview customers, we are now making it the default experience for all our customers. Be ready for a blazingly fast dashboard.

Microsoft SQL Server workload support as a Public Technology Preview

This release of NetApp Backup and Recovery provides an updated user interface that enables you to manage Microsoft SQL Server workloads using a 3-2-1 protection strategy, familiar in NetApp Backup and Recovery. With this new version, you can back up these workloads to primary storage, replicate them to secondary storage, and back them up to cloud object storage.

You can sign up for the preview by completing this Preview Signup Form.

Note This documentation about protecting Microsoft SQL Server workloads is provided as a technology preview. With this preview offering, NetApp reserves the right to modify offering details, contents, and timeline before general availability.

This version of NetApp Backup and Recovery includes the following updates:

  • 3-2-1 backup capability: This version integrates SnapCenter capabilities, enabling you to manage and protect your SnapCenter resources with a 3-2-1 data protection strategy from the NetApp Backup and Recovery user interface.

  • Import from SnapCenter: You can import SnapCenter backup data and policies into NetApp Backup and Recovery.

  • A redesigned user interface provides a more intuitive experience for managing your backup and recovery tasks.

  • Backup targets: You can add buckets in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, StorageGRID, and ONTAP S3 environments to use as backup targets for your Microsoft SQL Server workloads.

  • Workload support: This version enables you to back up, restore, verify, and clone Microsoft SQL Server databases and availability groups. (Support for other workloads will be added in future releases.)

  • Flexible restore options: This version enables you to restore databases to both original and alternate locations in case of corruption or accidental data loss.

  • Instant production copies: Generate space-efficient production copies for development, testing, or analytics in minutes instead of hours or days.

  • This version includes the ability to create detailed reports.

For details about protecting Microsoft SQL Server workloads, see Protect Microsoft SQL Server workloads overview.

09 June 2025

This NetApp Backup and Recovery release includes the following updates.

Indexed catalog support updates

In February 2025, we introduced the updated indexing feature (Indexed Catalog v2) that you use during the Search & Restore method of restoring data. The previous release significantly improved data indexing performance in on-premises environments. With this release, the indexing catalog is now available with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments.

If you are a new customer, the Indexed Catalog v2 is enabled by default for all new environments. If you are an existing customer, you can re-index your environment to leverage the Indexed Catalog v2.

How do you enable indexing?

Before you can use the Search & Restore method of restoring data, you need to enable "Indexing" on each source working environment from which you're planning to restore volumes or files. Select the Enable Indexing option when you are performing a Search & Restore.

The Indexed Catalog can then track every volume and backup file, making your searches quick and efficient.

For more information, refer to Enable indexing for Search & Restore.

Typically, NetApp Backup and Recovery establishes a private endpoint with the cloud provider to handle protection tasks. This release introduces an optional setting that lets you enable or disable NetApp Backup and Recovery from automatically creating a private endpoint. This might be useful to you if you want more control over the private endpoint creation process.

You can enable or disable this option when you enable protection or start the restore process.

If you disable this setting, you must manually create the private endpoint for NetApp Backup and Recovery to function properly. Without proper connectivity, you might not be able to perform backup and recovery tasks successfully.

Support for SnapMirror to Cloud Resync on ONTAP S3

The previous release introduced support for SnapMirror to Cloud Resync (SM-C Resync). The feature streamlines data protection during volume migration in NetApp environments. This release add support for SM-C Resync on ONTAP S3 as well as other S3-compatible providers such as Wasabi and MinIO.

Bring your own bucket for StorageGRID

When you create backup files in object storage for a working environment, by default, NetApp Backup and Recovery creates the container (bucket or storage account) for the backup files in the object storage account that you configured. Previously, you could override this and specify your own container for Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. With this release, you can now bring your own StorageGRID object storage container.

Data Classification

06 October 2025

Version 1.47

BlueXP classification is now NetApp Data Classification

BlueXP classification has been renamed NetApp Data Classification. In addition to the rename, the user interface has been enhanced.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect its role in managing your data infrastructure.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Enhanced Investigation experience

Find and understand your data faster with new searchable filters, per-value result counts, real-time insights summarizing key findings, and a refreshed results table with customizable columns and a slide-out details pane.

For more information, see Investigate data.

New Governance & Compliance dashboards

Gain critical insights faster with intuitive widgets, clearer visuals, and improved loading performance. For more information, see Review governance information about your data and View compliance information about your data.

Policies for saved queries (preview)

Data Classification now enables you to automate governance with conditional actions. You can create retention rules with automatic deletion set up periodic email notifications, all managed from an updated saved queries page.

For more information, see Create policies.

Actions (preview)

Take direct control from the Investigation page - delete, move, copy, or tag files individually or in bulk, for efficient data management and remediation.

For more information, see Investigate data.

Support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

Data Classification now supports scanning on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Easily add Google Cloud NetApp Volumes from the NetApp Console for seamless data scanning and classification.

11 August 2025

Version 1.46

This Data Classification release includes bug fixes and the following updates:

Enhanced scan event insights in the audit page

The Audit page now supports enhanced insights into scan events for BlueXP classification. The Audit page now displays when the scan of a system begins, statuses of systems, and any issues. Statuses for shares and systems are only available for mapping scans.

For more information about the Audit page, see Monitor NetApp Console operations.

Support for RHEL 9.6

This release adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v9.6 for manual on-premises installation of BlueXP classification, including dark site deployments.

The following operating systems require using the Podman container engine, and they require BlueXP classification version 1.30 or greater: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.8, 8.10, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5.

14 July 2025

Version 1.45

This BlueXP classification release includes code changes that optimize resource utilization and:

Improved workflow to add file shares for scanning

The workflow to add files shares to a file share group has been simplified. The process also now differentiates CIFS protocol support based on authentication type (Kerberos or NTLM).

For more information, see Scan file shares.

Enhanced file owner information

You can now view more information about file owners for files captured in the Investigation tab. When viewing metadata for a file in the Investigation tab, locate the file owner then select View details to see the username, email, and SAM account name. You can also view other items owned by this user. This feature is only available for working environments with Active Directory.

10 June 2025

Version 1.44

This BlueXP classification release includes:

Improved update times for the Governance dashboard

Update times for individual components of the Governance dashboard have been improved. The following table displays the frequency of updates for each component.

Component Update times

Age of Data

24 hours

Categories

24 hours

Data Overview

5 minutes

Duplicate Files

2 hours

File Types

24 hours

Non-Business Data

2 hours

Open Permissions

24 hours

Saved Searches

2 hours

Sensitive Data and Wide Permissions

24 hours

Size of Data

24 hours

Stale Data

2 hours

Top Data Repositories by Sensitivity Level

2 hours

You can view the time of the last update and manually update the Duplicate Files, Non-Business Data, Saved Searches, Stale Data, and Top Data Repositories by Sensitivity Level components. For more information about the Governance dashboard, see View governance details about the data stored in your organization.

Performance and security improvements

Enhancements have been made to improve BlueXP classification's performance, memory consumption, and security.

Bug fixes

Redis has been upgraded to improve the reliability of BlueXP classification. BlueXP classification now uses Elasticsearch to improve the accuracy of file count reporting during scans.

12 May 2025

Version 1.43

This Data Classification release includes:

Prioritize classification scans

Data Classification supports the ability to prioritize Map & Classify scans in addition to Mapping-only scans, enabling you to select which scans are completed first. Prioritization of Map & Classify scans is supported during and before the scans begin. If you choose to prioritize a scan while it's in progress, both the mapping and classification scans are prioritized.

For more information, see Prioritize scans.

Support for Canadian personally identifiable information (PII) data categories

Data Classification scans identify Canadian PII data categories. These categories include banking information, passport numbers, social insurance numbers, driver's license numbers and health card numbers for all Canadian provinces and territories.

For more information, see Personal data categories.

Custom classification (preview)

Data Classification supports custom classifications for Map & Classify scans. With custom classifications, you can tailor Data Classification scans to capture data specific to your organization using regular expressions. This feature is currently in preview.

For more information, see Add custom classifications.

Saved searches tab

The Policies tab has been renamed Saved searches. The functionality is unchanged.

Send scan events to the Audit page

Data Classification supports sending classification events (when a scan is initiated and when it ends) to the NetApp Consle Audit page.

Security updates
  • The Keras package has been updated, mitigating vulnerabilities (BDSA-2025-0107 and BDSA-2025-1984).

  • The Docker containers configuration has been updated. The container no longer has access to the host's network interfaces for crafting raw network packets. By reducing unnecessary access, the update mitigates potential security risks.

Performance enhancements

Code enhancements have been implemented to reduce RAM usage and improve the overall performance of Data Classification.

Bug fixes

Bugs that caused StorageGRID scans to fail, the investigation page filter options to not load, and the Data Discovery Assessment to not download for high volume assessments have been fixed.

14 April 2025

Version 1.42

This BlueXP classification release includes:

Bulk scanning for working environments

BlueXP classification supports bulk operations for working environments. You can choose to enable Mapping scans, enable Map & Classify scans, disable scans, or create a custom configuration across volumes in working enviroment. If you make a selection for an individual volume, it overrides the bulk selection. To perform a bulk operation, navigate to the Configuration page and make your selection.

Download investigation report locally

BlueXP classification supports the ability to download data investigation reports locally to view in the browser. If you choose the local option, the data investigation is only available in the CSV format and only displays the first 10,000 rows of data.

10 March 2025

Version 1.41

This BlueXP classification release includes general improvements and bug fixes. It also includes:

Scan status

BlueXP classification tracks the real time progress of the initial mapping and classification scans on a volume. Separate progressive bars track the mapping and classification scans, presenting a percentage of total files scanned. You can also hover over a progress bar to view the number of files scanned and the total files. Tracking the status of your scans creates deeper insights into the scan progress, enabling you to better plan your scans and understand resource allocation.

To view the status of your scans, navigate to Configuration in BlueXP classification then select the Working Environment configuration. Progress is displayed in line for each volume.

19 February 2025

Version 1.40

This BlueXP classification release includes the following updates.

Support for RHEL 9.5

This release provides support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux v9.5 in addition to previously supported versions. This is applicable to any manual on-premises installation of BlueXP classification, including dark site deployments.

The following operating systems require using the Podman container engine, and they require BlueXP classification version 1.30 or greater: Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.8, 8.10, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, and 9.5.

Prioritize mapping-only scans

When conducting Mapping-only scans, you can prioritize the most important scans. This feature helps when you have many working environments and want to ensure high priority scans are completed first.

By default, scans are queued based on the order in which they are initiated. With the ability to prioritize scans, you can move scans to the front of the queue. Multiple scans can be prioritized. Priority is designated in a first-in, first-out order, meaning the first scan you prioritize moves to the front of the queue; the second scan you prioritize becomes second in the queue, and so forth.

Priority is granted on a one-time basis. Automatic rescans of mapping data occur in the default order.

Prioritization is limited to mapping-only scans; it's not available for map and classify scans.

For more information, see Prioritize scans.

Retry all scans

BlueXP classification supports the ability to batch retry all failed scans.

You can reattempt scans in a batch operation with the Retry all function. If classification scans are failing due to a temporary issue such as a network outage, you can retry all scans at the same time with one button instead of retrying them individually. Scans can be retried as many times as needed.

To retry all scans:

  1. From the BlueXP classification menu, select Configuration.

  2. To retry all failed scans, select Retry all scans.

Improved categorization model accuracy

The accuracy of the machine learning model for predefined categories has improved by 11%.

22 January 2025

Version 1.39

This BlueXP classification release updates the export process for the Data Investigation report. This export update is useful for performing additional analyses on your data, creating additional visualizations on the data, or sharing the results of your data investigation with others.

Previously, the Data Investigation report export was limited to 10,000 rows. With this release, the limit has been removed so that you can export all of your data. This change enables you to export more data from your Data Investigation reports, providing you with more flexibility in your data analysis.

You can choose the working environment, volumes, destination folder, and either JSON or CSV format. The exported filename includes a timestamp to help you identify when the data was exported.

The supported working environments include:

  • Cloud Volumes ONTAP

  • FSx for ONTAP

  • ONTAP

  • Share group

Exporting data from the Data Investigation report has the following limitations:

  • The maximum number of records to download is 500 million. per type (files, directories, and tables)

  • One million records are expected to take about 35 minutes to export.

For details about data investigation and the report, see Investigate data stored in your organization.

16 December 2024

Version 1.38

This BlueXP classification release includes general improvements and bug fixes.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP

6 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Simplified Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployment in AWS

You can now deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS using a quick deployment method for both single-node and high-availability (HA) configurations. This streamlined process reduces the number of steps compared to the advanced method, automatically sets default values on a single page, and minimizes navigation, making deployment faster and easier.

4 September 2025

Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.17.1 RC

You can now use BlueXP to deploy and manage the Release Candidate 1 of Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.17.1 in Azure and Google Cloud. However, this version is not available for deployment and upgrade in AWS.

11 August 2025

End of availability of Optimized licenses

Beginning on August 11, 2025, the Cloud Volumes ONTAP Optimized license will be deprecated and will no longer be available for purchase or renewal in the Azure and Google Cloud marketplaces for pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscriptions. If you have an existing annual contract with an Optimized license, you can continue to use the license until the end of your contract. When your Optimized license expires, you can opt for Cloud Volumes ONTAP Essentials or Professional licenses in BlueXP.

However, the ability to add or renew Optimized licenses will be available through the APIs.

For information about licensing packages, refer to Licensing for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

For information about switching to a different charging method, refer to Manage capacity-based licensing.

Copy and Sync

06 October 2025

BlueXP copy and sync is now NetApp Copy and Sync

BlueXP copy and sync has been renamed to NetApp Copy and Sync.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

02 February 2025

New OS support for data broker

The data broker is now supported on hosts running Red Hat Enterprise 9.4, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 24.04.

27 October 2024

Bug fixes

We updated NetApp Copy and Sync and the data broker to fix a few bugs. The new data broker version is 1.0.56.

Digital advisor

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

06 August 2025

Support entitled switches

You can now view information about Brocade Fibre Channel SAN switches that are entitled for support. This includes details about the switch model, serial number, and support status. Learn how to view support entitled switches.

Threshold for RSS AutoSupport data

The Recently Stopped Sending (RSS) limit, in the AutoSupport widget, has been extended from 48 hours (2 days) to 216 hours (9 days) before a system is flagged as RSS. This is done to accommodate platforms like StorageGRID that only send weekly AutoSupport data.

Deprecated API section in Digital Advisor API catalog

A new deprecated API section is available in the Digital Advisor API catalog. It lists the APIs that are scheduled for deprecation, along with deprecation timelines and alternative APIs.

Capacity forecast V2 and End of Support API modules deprecation

The capacity forecast V2 and end of support API modules are scheduled for deprecation. To access the deprecated APIs or to know about the deprecation timelines and alternative APIs, navigate to API services → Browse → Deprecated APIs.

09 July 2025

Upgrade Advisor

  • A multi-format download option has been included for Upgrade Advisor plans to simplify ONTAP upgrade planning and address potential blockers or warnings. You can now download upgrade advisor plans in Excel, PDF, and JSON formats.

  • In the Excel format of the Upgrade Advisor plan, the following enhancements have been made:

    • You can view the pre-checks performed on the cluster, flagging the results with indicators such as “Passed,” “Failed,” or “Skipped.” This ensures that the cluster is in optimal condition for completing the ONTAP upgrade.

    • You can view the recommended latest firmware updates applicable to the cluster, along with the version shipped with the ONTAP target version.

    • A new tab has been included that offers interoperability checks for SAN clusters. It provides a view of the supported Host OS versions for the selected target ONTAP version.

Licenses and subscriptions

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

10 March 2025

Ability to remove subscriptions

You can now remove subscriptions from the digital wallet if you have unsubscribed from them.

View consumed capacity for Marketplace subscriptions

When viewing PAYGO subscriptions, you can now view the consumed capacity of the subscription.

10 February 2025

The BlueXP digital wallet has been redesigned for ease of use and now provides additional subscription and license management.

New Overview dashboard

The digital wallet homepage has an updated dashboard of your NetApp licenses and Marketplace subscriptions, with the ability to drill-down into specific services, license types and required actions.

Configuring subscriptions to credentials

The BlueXP digital wallet now allows you to configure your subscriptions to provider credentials. Typically you do this when you first subscribe to a Marketplace subscription or annual contract. Previously changing the subscription's credentials could only be done on the Credentials page.

Associating subscriptions with organizations

You can now update the organization to which a subscription is associated directly from digital wallet.

Managing Cloud Volume ONTAP licenses

You now manage Cloud Volumes ONTAP licenses through the home page or the Direct licenses tab. Use the Marketplace subscriptions tab to view your subscription information.

5 March 2024

BlueXP disaster recovery

The BlueXP digital wallet now enables you to manage licenses for BlueXP disaster recovery. You can add licenses, update licenses, and view details about licensed capacity.

30 July 2023

Usage reports enhancements

Several improvements to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP usage reports are now available:

  • The TiB unit is now included in the name of columns.

  • A new node(s) field for serial numbers is now included.

  • A new Workload Type column is now included under the Storage VMs usage report.

  • Working environment names are now included in the Storage VMs and Volume usage reports.

  • The volume type file is now labeled Primary (Read/Write).

  • The volume type secondary is now labeled Secondary (DP).

For more information about the usage reports, refer to Download usage reports.

Disaster Recovery

06 October 2025

BlueXP disaster recovery is now NetApp Disaster Recovery

BlueXP disaster recovery has been renamed to NetApp Disaster Recovery.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Other updates

  • Support for Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP was in a public preview. With this release, it is now generally available. For details, refer to Introduction of NetApp Disaster Recovery using Amazon Elastic VMware Service and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

  • Storage discovery improvements, including reduced discovery times for on-premises deployments

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM) support, including role-based access control (RBAC) and enhanced user permissions

  • Private Preview support for Azure VMware solution and Cloud Volumes ONTAP. With this support, you can now configure disaster recovery protection from on-premises to the Azure VMware solution using Cloud Volumes ONTAP storage.

04 August 2025

Version 4.2.5P2

NetApp Disaster Recovery updates

This release includes the following updates:

  • Improved the VMFS support to handle the same LUN presented from multiple storage virtual machines.

  • Improved the test teardown cleanup to handle the datastore already being unmounted and or deleted.

  • Improved subnet mapping so that it now validates that the gateway entered is contained within the network provided.

  • Corrected an issue that could cause the replication plan to fail if the VM name contains ".com".

  • Removed a restriction preventing the destination volume from being the same as the source volume when creating the volume as part of the replication plan creation.

  • Added support for a pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscription to NetApp Intelligent Services in the Azure Marketplace and added a link to the Azure Marketplace in the free trial dialog.

14 July 2025

Version 4.2.5

User roles in NetApp Disaster Recovery

NetApp Disaster Recovery now employs roles to govern the access that each user has to specific features and actions.

The service uses the following roles that are specific to NetApp Disaster Recovery.

  • Disaster recovery admin: Perform any actions in NetApp Disaster Recovery.

  • Disaster recovery failover admin: Perform failover and migrate actions in NetApp Disaster Recovery.

  • Disaster recovery application admin: Create and modify replication plans and start test failovers.

  • Disaster recovery viewer: View information in NetApp Disaster Recovery, but cannot perform any actions.

If you are clicking on the NetApp Disaster Recovery service and configuring it for the first time, you must have the SnapCenterAdmin permission or have the Organization Admin role.

Other updates in NetApp Disaster Recovery

  • Enhanced network discovery

  • Scalability improvements:

    • Filtering for the required metadata instead of all the details

    • Discovery improvements to retrieve and update VM resources faster

    • Memory optimization and performance optimization for data retrieval and data updates

    • vCenter SDK client creation and pool management improvements

  • Stale data management on the next scheduled or manual discovery:

    • When a VM is deleted in the vCenter, NetApp Disaster Recovery now automatically removes it from the replication plan.

    • When a datastore or network is deleted in the vCenter, NetApp Disaster Recovery now deletes it from the replication plan and resource group.

    • When a cluster, host, or datacenter is deleted in the vCenter, NetApp Disaster Recovery now deletes it from the replication plan and resource group.

  • You can now access Swagger documentation in your browser's incognito mode. You can access it from within NetApp Disaster Recovery from the Settings option > API Documentation or directly at the following URL in your browser's incognito mode: Swagger documentation.

  • In some situations after a failback operation, the iGroup was left behind after the operation completed. This update removes the iGroup if it is stale.

  • If the NFS FQDN was used in the replication plan, NetApp Disaster Recovery now resolves it to an IP address. This update is useful if the FQDN is not resolvable in the disaster recovery site.

  • UI alignment improvements

  • Log improvements to capture the vCenter sizing details after the successful discovery

E-Series systems

06 Oct 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

12 May 2025

BlueXP access role needed

You now need one of the following access roles to view, discover or manage E-Series in BlueXP: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Storage admin, or System health specialist. Learn about BlueXP access roles.

18 September 2022

Support for E-Series

You can now discover your E-Series systems directly from BlueXP. Discovering E-Series systems provides you with a complete view of data across your hybrid multicloud.

Lifecycle planning

06 October 2025

BlueXP economic efficiency is now Lifecycle planning

BlueXP economic efficiency has been renamed to Lifecycle planning.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Storage > Lifecycle planning.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

15 May 2024

Disabled features

Some BlueXP economic efficiency features have been temporarily disabled:

  • Technology refresh

  • Add capacity

14 March 2024

Technology refresh options

If you have existing assets in place and want to determine whether a technology needs to be updated, you can use the BlueXP ecomomic efficiency technology refresh options. You can either review a short assessment of your current workloads and get recommendations, or if you sent AutoSupport logs to NetApp within the past 90 days, the service can now provide a workload simulation to see how your workloads perform on new hardware.

You can also add a workload and exclude existing workloads from the simulation.

Previously, you could only take an assessment of your assets and identify whether a technology refresh is recommended.

The feature is now part of the Tech refresh option in the left navigation.

Learn more about the Evaluate a technology refresh.

Edge caching

The edge caching service was removed on August 7, 2024.

Google Cloud NetApp Volumes

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
== 21 July 2025

Support for Google Cloud NetApp Volumes in BlueXP

You can now manage Google Cloud NetApp Volumes directly from BlueXP:

  • Add a working environment.

  • View volumes.

  • Remove working environments.

Google Cloud Storage

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
== 10 July 2023

Ability to add new buckets and manage existing buckets from BlueXP

You can view Google Cloud Storage buckets on the BlueXP Canvas for quite a while. Now you can add new buckets and change properties for existing buckets directly from BlueXP. See how to add new Google Cloud Storage buckets.

Keystone

13 October 2025

New enhancements in the Keystone dashboard in the NetApp Console:

QoS policy override column in Assets tab

The Volumes in clusters tab within the Assets tab now includes a QoS policy override column that indicates whether QoS rules are bypassed for backup and mirror volumes, displaying true (rules ignored), false (rules enforced), or N/A (for mirror volumes).

Note For Keystone v3 subscriptions, this column displays N/A as QoS policies are not applicable in the v3 offering.

Enhanced alerts visibility in Overview page

The Overview page now includes two new alert sections named Unresolved alerts by severity and Oldest unresolved Keystone alerts. To learn more, refer to Keystone dashboard in NetApp Console.

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

22 September 2025

Addition of alert monitoring

The Keystone dashboard in BlueXP now includes a Monitoring tab for managing alerts and monitors across your subscriptions. This new tab enables you to:

  • View and resolve active alerts, including both system-generated and user-defined alerts for capacity usage and subscription expiration.

  • Create alert monitors to track capacity usage and subscription expiration events.

To learn more, refer to View and manage alerts and monitors.

Streamlined performance service levels viewing

You can view the performance service levels information, now moved from a separate tab to an expandable view, within the Subscriptions tab. Click the down arrow next to the Expiration date column to view them for each subscription. To learn more, refer to View details about your Keystone subscriptions.

Kubernetes

Support for discovering and managing Kubernetes clusters was removed on August 7, 2024.

Migration reports

Migration reports service was removed on August 7, 2024.

On-prem ONTAP clusters

06 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

12 May 2025

BlueXP access role needed

You now need one of the following access roles to view, discover or manage on-prem ONTAP clusters: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Storage admin, or System health specialist. Learn about access roles.

26 November 2024

Support for ASA r2 systems with private mode

You can now discover NetApp ASA r2 systems when using BlueXP in private mode. This support is available starting with the 3.9.46 private mode release of BlueXP.

Operational resiliency

Operational resiliency features were removed on August 22, 2025.

Ransomware Resilience

06 October 2025

BlueXP ransomware protection is now NetApp Ransomware Resilience

BlueXP ransomware protection service has been renamed to NetApp Ransomware Resilience.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Data breach detection

Ransomware Resilience includes a new detection mechanism that can be activated in a few steps to detect anomalous user reads as an early indicator of data breach. Ransomware resilience collects and analyzes user read events by creating a historic baseline, which is a profile of expected, normal behavior from the past data. When new user activity significantly deviates from this established norm (such as an unexpected read surge combined with suspicious read patterns), an alert is generated. Ransomware Resilience includes an AI model to detect suspicious read patterns.

Unlike encryption detection by ARP at the storage layer, detection of the user behavior anomaly is done in the Ransomware Resilience SaaS service by collecting FPolicy events.

Important You must use the new Ransomware Resilience user behavior admin and Ransomware Resilience user behavior viewer roles to access suspicious user behavior detection settings.
Additional suspicious user activity detections

In addition to data breach detection, Ransomware Resilience also detects the following alert types based on observed suspicious user activity:

  • Data destruction - potential attack - An alert with the severity of potential attack is created when the number of file deletions exceed the historic norm.

  • Suspicious user behavior - potential attack - An alert with the severity of potential attack is created when read, rename, and delete operations in a sequence similar to a ransomware attack are observed

  • Suspicious user behavior - Warning - An alert with the severity of warning is created when the total number of file activities (read, delete, rename etc.) exceeds the historic norm

New user roles for data breach detection

To manage suspicious user activity alerts, Ransomware Resilience has introduced two new roles for Console organization admins to grant access to supsicious user activity detection: Ransomware Resilience user behavior admin and Ransomware Resilience user behavior viewer.

You must be a user behavior admin to configure suspicious user behavior settings. The Ransomware Resilience admin role is not supported for configuring suspicious user behavior settings.

12 August 2025

This release includes general enhancements and improvements.

15 July 2025

SAN workload support

This release includes support for SAN workloads in BlueXP ransomware protection. You can now protect SAN workloads in addition to NFS and CIFS workloads.

For more information, refer to BlueXP ransomware protection prerequisites.

Improved workload protection

This release improves the configuration process for workloads with snapshot and backup policies from other NetApp tools such as SnapCenter or BlueXP backup and recovery. In previous releases, BlueXP ransomware protection discovered the policies from other tools, only allowing you to change the detection policy. With this release, you can now replace snapshot and backup policies with BlueXP ransomware protection policies or continue to use the policies from other tools.

For details, refer to Protect workloads.

Email notifications

If BlueXP ransomware protection detects a possible attack, a notification appears in the BlueXP Notifications, and an email is sent to the email address that you configured.

The email includes information about the severity, the impacted workload, and a link to the alert in the BlueXP ransomware protection Alerts tab.

If you configured a security and event management (SIEM) system in BlueXP ransomware protection, the service sends alert details to your SIEM system.

For details, refer to Handle detected ransomware alerts.

Remediation

The Remediation service was removed on April 22, 2024.

Replication

06 October 2025

BlueXP replication is now NetApp Replication

BlueXP replication has been renamed to NetApp Replication.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

18 September 2022

FSx for ONTAP to Cloud Volumes ONTAP

You can now replicate data from an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system to Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

31 July 2022

FSx for ONTAP as the data source

You can now replicate data from an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system to the following destinations:

  • Amazon FSx for ONTAP

  • On-premises ONTAP cluster

02 September 2021

Support for Amazon FSx for ONTAP

You can now replicate data from a Cloud Volumes ONTAP system or an on-premises ONTAP cluster to an Amazon FSx for ONTAP file system.

Software updates

06 October 2025

BlueXP software updates is now software updates

BlueXP software updates has been renamed to software updates.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Health > Software updates.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

12 May 2025

BlueXP access role needed

You now need one of the following access roles to install software updates: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Storage admin, Storage viewer, or Storage health specialist. Users with the Storage viewer role have various permissions related to software updates, but cannot install software updates. Learn about BlueXP access roles.

02 April 2025

Mitigated risks

In the summary section of BlueXP software updates, you can now view the total number of risks that can be mitigated by the operating system update. This allows users to assess the security and stability improvements on their installation base.

StorageGRID

6 October 2025

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

12 May 2025

BlueXP access roles needed

You now need one of the following access roles to view, discover or manage StorageGRID in BlueXP: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Storage admin, or Storage health specialist. Learn about BlueXP access roles.

7 August 2024

New advanced view

Starting with StorageGRID 11.8, you can use the familiar Grid Manager interface to manage your StorageGRID system from BlueXP.

Ability to review and approve StorageGRID management interface certificate

You now have the ability to review and approve a StorageGRID management interface certificate when discovering the StorageGRID system from BlueXP. You can also review and approve the latest StorageGRID management interface certificate on a discovered grid.

18 September 2022

Support for StorageGRID

You can now discover your StorageGRID systems directly from BlueXP. Discovering StorageGRID provides you with a complete view of data across your hybrid multicloud.

Cloud Tiering

06 October 2025

BlueXP tiering is now NetApp Cloud Tiering

BlueXP tiering has been renamed to NetApp Cloud Tiering.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

09 August 2023

Use a custom prefix for the bucket name

In the past you needed to use the default "fabric-pool" prefix when defining the bucket name, for example, fabric-pool-bucket1. Now you can use a custom prefix when naming your bucket. This functionality is available only when tiering data to Amazon S3. Learn more.

Search for a cluster across all BlueXP Connectors

If you are using multiple Connectors to manage all the storage systems in your environment, some clusters on which you want to implement tiering may be in different Connectors. If you are not sure which Connector is managing a certain cluster, you can search across all Connectors using Cloud Tiering. Learn more.

04 July 2023

Adjust the bandwidth to transfer inactive data

When you activate Cloud Tiering, ONTAP can use an unlimited amount of network bandwidth to transfer the inactive data from volumes in the cluster to object storage. If you notice that tiering traffic is affecting normal user workloads, you can throttle the amount of bandwidth that can be used during the transfer. Learn more.

Tiering event displayed in the Notification Center

The tiering event "Tier additional data from cluster <name> to object storage to increase your storage efficiency" now appears as a notification when a cluster is tiering less than 20% of its cold data - including clusters that are tiering no data.

This notification is a "Recommendation" to help make your systems more efficient and to save on storage costs. It provides a link to the Cloud Tiering total cost of ownership and savings calculator to help you calculate your cost savings.

Volume caching

06 October 2025

BlueXP volume caching is now volume caching

BlueXP volume caching has been renamed to volume caching.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Mobility > Volume caching.

BlueXP is now NetApp Console

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

04 June 2023

BlueXP volume caching

BlueXP volume caching, a feature of ONTAP 9 software, is a remote caching capability that simplifies file distribution, reduces WAN latency by bringing resources closer to where your users and compute resources are, and lowers WAN bandwidth costs. Volume caching provides a persistent, writable volume in a remote place. You can use BlueXP volume caching to speed up access to data or to offload traffic from heavily accessed volumes. Cache volumes are ideal for read-intensive workloads, especially where clients need to access the same data repeatedly.

With BlueXP volume caching, you have caching capabilities for the cloud, specifically for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, and on-premises as working environments.

Workload factory

06 October 2025

BlueXP workload factory now NetApp Workload Factory

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

Ask Me integration with MCP

Ask Me, Workload Factory's AI assistant, is integrated with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Using MCP, Ask Me securely interfaces with external environments and queries API tools to deliver responses tailored to your specific storage environment.

05 October 2025

New notification for Storage

The NetApp Workload Factory notification service includes the notification for well-architected issues for Storage.

09 September 2025

New notification for Storage

The BlueXP workload factory notification service includes the notification for automatic capacity management for Storage.