Data replication is available between an on-premises ONTAP system and an FSx for ONTAP file system from the NetApp Console Systems page.

Replicate data

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

The 4.1.0 release is available for standard mode and restricted mode.

Renamed the status indicators for the Console agent from Active and Inactive to Connected and Disconnected to make their purpose more clear.

The Console agent now supports RHEL 9.6 and Podman 5.4.0. In addition, when using RHEL 9 and higher, NetApp supports podman-compose 1.5.0.

This release includes the following:

The email address that sends NetApp Console notifications has changed to service@console.netapp.com from service@console.bluexp.netapp.com. NetApp recommends updating any email rules to the allow service@console.netapp.com to ensure you continue to receive NetApp Console email notifications.

This release of Data Classification includes bug fixes, security improvements, and performance enhancements.

Scan configurations now include improved insights into scan completion. Previously, a progress bar only displayed while the scan was in progress. Now, the progress bar remains visible after completion to confirm scans were completed successfully. You're also able to view the number of files mapped and scanned.

For more information about scan settings, see Change the NetApp Data Classification scan settings for your repositories.

You can now configure a cascading relationship in ONTAP and use any leg of that replication relationship for disaster recovery.

Disaster Recovery now supports downgrading VMware hardware to an earlier version of vSphere during registration. This is useful when the source ESX host is running a later version than the disaster recovery site.

For more information, see Create a replication plan in NetApp Disaster Recovery.

Disaster Recovery now gracefully shuts down VMs instead of powering them off. If a given VM takes more than ten minutes to power down, Disaster Recovery powers it off.

You can now inject custom scripting into the failover workflow to run before creating a backup. Pre-backup scripting enables you to control the VM's state before a snapshot is replicated and prepare a VM for a transition. For example, you can inject a script that unmounts an NFS mount that will be remounted using a different script after failover.

For more information, see Create a replication plan in NetApp Disaster Recovery.

Earlier, when deploying Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances over NVMe-TCP, you would have to to manually obtain and apply NVMe licenses before deployment. With this update, Cloud Volumes ONTAP now automatically installs the required NVMe licenses during deployment, simplifying the setup process.

For existing NVMe-TCP deployments that lack licenses, Cloud Volumes ONTAP applies the licenses automatically. You must restart the system for the licenses to take effect.

For more information, see Supported client protocols for Cloud Volumes ONTAP: NVMe-TCP.

The Alerts monitors tab on the Monitoring page includes a Complete your coverage notification box that appears when coverage gaps exist. This box lists subscriptions missing capacity or expiration monitors, and monitors with no subscriptions. You can address the gaps by adding subscriptions to existing monitors, creating new monitors, or deleting unused monitors. To learn more, refer to Manage coverage gaps for alert monitors.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployments and upgrades in Azure through the NetApp Console are now restricted to the latest supported versions. This ensures compatibility with the latest generation hardware supported by Microsoft and provides the newest features and security enhancements. The Console will prompt you to upgrade to the supported versions.

For more details, refer to:

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).

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.

BlueXP alerts has been renamed to ONTAP alerts.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 , allowing you to select the Console agent that you want to view systems for.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This release of ONTAP volume workloads introduces the following enhanced capability:

Beginning with ONTAP 9.17.1 and newer, DataLock is now supported with Google Cloud Platform. This complements existing DataLock support with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and NetApp StorageGRID.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. For more information, see Scan Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.

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

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.

BlueXP disaster recovery has been renamed to NetApp Disaster Recovery.

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.

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

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.

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.

For more information, see Enable suspicious user activity detection and View anomalous user behavior.

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.

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.

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.

For more information, refer to Deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS using quick deployment.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Learn more about protecting VMware workloads with NetApp Backup and Recovery.

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:

A new column, Total footprint, is added to enhance Keystone consumption tracking for FabricPool volumes:

This column displays the total logical footprint for volumes using FabricPool tiering, including data from both performance and cold tiers, so you can accurately calculate Keystone consumption.