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.

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.

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

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

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.

Learn more about using access roles.

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.

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

You can now view Google Cloud NetApp Volumes in BlueXP. Learn more about Google Cloud NetApp Volumes.

This release of the BlueXP Connector includes security improvements, bug fixes, and the following new features:

At this time, the 3.9.54 release is available for standard mode and restricted mode.

Identity and Access Management in BlueXP now provides the following features:

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.

You can drill into alert details and find recommendations.

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.

Learn about BlueXP alerts.

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:

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

Replicate data

After you set up credentials and permissions for your FSx for ONTAP file system, you'll be redirected to the BlueXP Credentials page. From this page, you can rename or remove your FSx for ONTAP credentials.

Set up permissions for FSx for ONTAP file systems

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.

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. See how to add new Azure Blob storage accounts.

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.

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.

Learn how to set up a Microsoft Entra application and view the custom role permissions.

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

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 BlueXP 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:

Microsoft SQL Server workload support is now generally available (GA) in BlueXP 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:

Refer to Protect ONTAP workloads.

This release of of BlueXP backup and recovery introduces support for discovering and managing Kubernetes workloads:

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

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.

For details, see View protection health in the Dashboard.

This release of BlueXP 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 the BlueXP backup and recovery service. 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.

This version of BlueXP backup and recovery includes the following updates:

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

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.

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, BlueXP 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 BlueXP 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 BlueXP backup and recovery to function properly. Without proper connectivity, you might not be able to perform backup and recovery tasks successfully.

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.

When you create backup files in object storage for a working environment, by default, BlueXP 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.

See Create your own object storage container.

This BlueXP classification release includes bug fixes and the following updates:

The BlueXP timeline now supports enhanced insights into scan events for BlueXP classification. The timeline now displays when the scan of a working environment begins, statuses of working environments, and any issues. Statuses for shares and working environments are only available for mapping scans.

For more information about the BlueXP timeline, see Monitor BlueXP operations.

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.

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

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.

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.

For more information, see Investigate the data stored in your organization.

This BlueXP classification release includes:

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

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.

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

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.

This BlueXP classification release includes:

BlueXP 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.

BlueXP 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.

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

For more information, see Add custom classifications.

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

BlueXP classification supports sending classification events (when a scan is initiated and when it ends) to the BlueXP timeline.

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

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.

This BlueXP classification release includes:

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.

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.

For more information, see Investigate the data stored in your organization with BlueXP classification.

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

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.

This BlueXP classification release includes the following updates.

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.

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.

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:

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

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:

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

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

This BlueXP classification release includes general improvements and bug fixes.

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.

Learn more about this release of Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

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.

BlueXP now supports transparent proxy servers in addition to the existing explicit proxy connections. When creating or modifying the BlueXP Connector, you can configure a transparent proxy server to securely manage network traffic to and from Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

For more information about the use of proxy servers in Cloud Volumes ONTAP, refer to:

Beginning with Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1, L8s_v3 is supported as a VM type in Azure single and multiple availability zones, for both new and existing high-availability (HA) pair deployments.

For more information, refer to
Supported configurations in Azure.

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

View Linux host requirements.

We updated the BlueXP copy and sync service and the data broker to fix a few bugs. The new data broker version is 1.0.56.

We updated the BlueXP copy and sync service and the data broker to fix a few bugs. The new data broker version is 1.0.55.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The AutoSupport widget has been enhanced to include a pop-up to provide details about systems that have stopped sending AutoSupport data. Enabling AutoSupport reduces downtime risk and supports proactive system health management.

The support contracts report has been enhanced to include the new ASP/LSG flag field. This field allows you to filter and identify systems covered by an Authorized Support Partner, also known as Lifecycle Services Certified.

You can now launch the Sustainability dashboard using the link included in the sustainability presentation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Learn how to manage licenses for BlueXP data services

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

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

With this release, you can now run scripts on VMs after they power on during the test failover process. This enables you to test and validate scripts. For example, you can update NFS mounts to point to a new target server, ensuring that guest applications come fully online and that your recovery process can be tested end-to-end.

For more information on the fail over process, see Fail over applications to a remote site.

During failover, the failback process is now disabled until discovery completes. This ensures all configurations are correctly identified and accounted for before initiating a fail back, and reduces the risk of errors.

For more information on the failback process, see Fail back applications to the original source.

This release includes the following updates:

BlueXP 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 BlueXP disaster recovery.

If you are clicking on the BlueXP disaster recovery service and configuring it for the first time, you must have the SnapCenterAdmin permission or have the Organization Admin role.

For details, see User roles and permissions in BlueXP disaster recovery.

Learn about BlueXP access roles for all services.

This update improves the discovery process, which reduces the time needed for discovery.

This update enhances the Add and Edit Subnet Mapping dialog with a new search functionality. You can now quickly find specific subnets by entering search terms, making it easier to manage subnet mappings.

Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) is a Windows feature that automatically manages and backs up the password of a local administrator account on Active directory.

You can now select subnet mapping options and check the LAPS option by providing the domain controller details. Using this option, you don't need to provide a password for each of your virtual machines.

For details, refer to Create a replication plan.

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.

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.

Some BlueXP economic efficiency features have been temporarily disabled:

If you have existing assets in place and want to determine whether a technology needs to be updated, you can use the BlueXP economic 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.

This release of BlueXP economic efficiency includes a new option to take an assessment of your assets and identify whether a technology refresh is recommended. The service includes a new Tech refresh option in the left navigation, new pages where you can take an assessment of your current workloads and assets, and a report that provides recommendations to you.

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

You have had the ability to 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.

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.

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.

You can view current consumption and historical data for each performance service level instance through the Keystone dashboard in BlueXP. This feature is available for performance service levels with multiple instances, provided you have a Keystone version 3 (v3) subscription. To learn more, refer to View the consumption of your Keystone subscriptions.

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 BlueXP access roles.

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.

You can now discover NetApp ASA r2 systems in BlueXP when using BlueXP in standard mode or restricted mode. After you discover a NetApp ASA r2 system and open the working environment, you're brought directly to System Manager.

No other management options are available with ASA r2 systems. You can't use the Standard view and you can't enable BlueXP services.

Discovery of ASA r2 systems is not supported when using BlueXP in private mode.

Using the new BlueXP operational resiliency service and its automated IT operational risk remediation suggestions, you can implement suggested remediations before an outage or failure occurs.

Operational resiliency is a service that helps you analyze alerts and events to maintain the health, uptime, and performance of services and solutions.

Learn more about BlueXP operational resiliency.

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.

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.

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.

This release includes updates to the landing page for BlueXP ransomware protection that makes starting the free trial and discovery easier.

Previously, you could run a ransomware readiness drill by simulating an attack on a new sample workload. With this feature, you can investigate the simulated attack and recover the workload. Use this feature to test alert notifications, response, and recovery. Run and schedule these drills as often as needed.

With this release, you can use a new button on the BlueXP ransomware protection Dashboard to run a ransomware readiness drill on a test workload, making it easier for you to simulate ransomware attacks, investigate their impact, and recover workloads efficiently, all within a controlled environment.

You can now run readiness drills on CIFS (SMB) workloads in addition to NFS workloads.

For details, refer to Conduct a ransomware attack readiness drill.

Before you use BlueXP classification within the BlueXP ransomware protection service, you need to enable BlueXP classification to scan your data. Classifying data helps you find personally identifiable information (PII), which can increase security risks.

You can deploy BlueXP classification on a file share workload from within BlueXP ransomware protection. In the Privacy exposure column, select the Identify exposure option. If you've enabled the classification service, this action identifies the exposure. Otherwise, with this release, a dialog box presents the option to deploy BlueXP classification. Select Deploy to go to the BlueXP classification service landing page, where you can deploy that service. W

For details, refer to Deploy BlueXP classification in the cloud and to use the service within BlueXP ransomware protection, refer to Scan for personally identifiable information with BlueXP classification.

During the discovery workflow, BlueXP ransomware protection reports more details when you hover over Supported or Unsupported Workloads. This will help you understand why some of your workloads are not discovered by the BlueXP ransomware protection service.

There are many reasons why the service doesn't support a working environment, for example, the ONTAP version on your working environment could be below the required version. When you hover over an unsupported working environment, a tooltip displays the reason.

You can view the unsupported working environments during initial discovery, where you can also download the results. You can also view the results of discovery from the Workload discovery option in the Settings page.

For details, refer to Discover workloads in BlueXP ransomware protection.

This release supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This feature helps you protect your FSx for ONTAP workloads with BlueXP ransomware protection.

FSx for ONTAP is a fully managed service that provides the power of NetApp ONTAP storage in the cloud. It provides the same features, performance, and administrative capabilities that you use on-premises with the agility and scalability of a native AWS service.

The following changes were made to the BlueXP ransomware protection workflow:

For details, refer to Learn about BlueXP ransomware protection and working environments.

For information about the supported options, refer to the BlueXP ransomware protection limitations.

You now need one of the following access roles to view, discover, or manage BlueXP ransomware protection: Organization admin, Folder or project admin, Ransomware protection admin, or Ransomware protection viewer.

Learn about BlueXP access roles for all services.

With this release, you can review ransomware attack readiness drill reports. A readiness drill enables you to simulate a ransomware attack on a newly created, sample workload. Then, investigate the simulated attack and recover the sample workload. This feature helps you know that you are prepared in the event of an actual ransomware attack by testing alert notification, response, and recovery processes.

For details, refer to Conduct a ransomware attack readiness drill.

Previously, you could assign roles and permissions to users based on their responsibilities, which helps you manage user access to BlueXP ransomware protection. With this release, there are two new roles specific to BlueXP ransomware protection with updated permissions. The new roles are:

For details about permissions, refer to BlueXP ransomware protection role-based access to features.

This release includes several improvements to the payment process.

For details, refer to Set up licensing and payment options.

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

Learn how to set up data replication.

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

Learn how to set up data replication.

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.

Learn how to set up data replication.

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.

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.

The BlueXP software updates service provides a seamless update experience to users by mitigating risks, and ensuring customers can fully leverage ONTAP features.

Learn more about BlueXP software updates.

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.

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

Learn how to administer StorageGRID using the advanced view.

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.

Learn how to review and approve the server certificate during system discovery.

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

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.

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 BlueXP tiering. Learn more.

When you activate BlueXP 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.

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 BlueXP tiering total cost of ownership and savings calculator to help you calculate your cost savings.

The Licensing tab has been removed from the BlueXP tiering interface. All licensing for Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) subscriptions are accessed from the BlueXP tiering On-Premises Dashboard now. There is also a link from that page to the BlueXP digital wallet so that you can view and manage any BlueXP tiering bring-your-own-licenses (BYOL).

The "Clusters Dashboard" tab has been renamed to "Clusters", and the "On-Prem Overview" tab has been renamed to "On-Premises Dashboard". These pages have added some information that will help you evaluate if you can optimize your storage space with additional tiering configuration.

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.

Learn more about BlueXP volume caching.

The following permission is now available in read-only mode for Databases: cloudwatch:GetMetricData.

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The BlueXP workload factory notification service enables workload factory to send notifications to the BlueXP alerts service or to an Amazon SNS topic. Notifications sent to BlueXP alerts appear in the BlueXP alerts panel. When workload factory publishes notifications to an Amazon SNS topic, subscribers to the topic (such as people or other applications) receive the notifications at the endpoints configured for the topic (such as email or SMS messages).

Configure BlueXP workload factory notifications

When using BlueXP workload factory CloudShell, you can start typing a command and press the Tab key to view available options. If multiple possibilities exist, the CLI will display a list of suggestions. This feature enhances productivity by minimizing errors and speeding up command execution.

The workload factory user interface and documentation now use "read-only" to refer to read permissions and "read/write" to refer to automate permissions.

When using CloudShell, each time you issue an ONTAP CLI command and an error occurs, you can get AI-generated error responses that include a description of the failure, the cause of the failure, and a detailed resolution.

Use CloudShell

Now you can manage the iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy permission from the workload factory console when you add additional AWS account credentials or add a new workload capability such as the GenAI workload.

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CloudShell is available from anywhere in the BlueXP workload factory console. CloudShell allows you to use the AWS and ONTAP credentials that you've provided in your BlueXP account and execute AWS CLI commands or ONTAP CLI commands in a shell-like environment.

Use CloudShell

The following permission is now available in read mode for Databases: iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy.

Permissions reference change log