You can now activate a FabricPool license on an ONTAP cluster directly from Cloud Tiering. Learn more.

A new step is available when you set up data tiering to Azure Blob storage. You now select a resource group first and then choose a Blob container.

Each aggregate has two tiering settings that you can now adjust from Cloud Tiering: the tiering fullness threshold and whether inactive data reporting is enabled. Learn more.

Inactive data reporting is now automatically enabled on ONTAP clusters that you discover through Cloud Manager. This enhancement makes it easier for Cloud Tiering to show you the potential savings from tiering cold data.

If the health of a cluster is failed, you can now remove it from the dashboard.

Cloud Tiering now provides details about discovered clusters that aren't eligible for tiering.

You can now tier inactive data from your ONTAP clusters to StorageGRID.

Learn how to get started.

You can now view details about a cluster's volumes before you set up tiering on the volumes.

Cloud Tiering now supports multi-tenancy through Cloud Central accounts. Accounts enable multiple users to manage the same clusters in an account.

Learn more about accounts.

Cloud Tiering now enables you to adjust the cooling period that's associated with a volume tiering policy. The cooling period is the number of days that user data in a volume must remain inactive before it's considered "cold" and moved to object storage. Adjusting the cooling days enables you to optimize tiering for your environment.

Learn how to adjust the cooling period.

We've made improvements to the Cloud Tiering service that requires you to deploy new Service Connectors and rediscover your clusters.

The benefits include improved performance, the ability to release new features faster, improved error handling, an improved discovery process, and more.

Cloud Tiering will prompt you to rediscover your clusters when you log in. If you need help, contact us by using the in-product chat.

We enhanced how you set up data tiering on a new cluster. The simplified wizard walks you through three steps: discover the cluster, set up the cluster for tiering, and then choose the volumes that you want to tier. The following pages provide more details:

When you set up data tiering on a cluster, you now have the choice to add a new bucket/container or to select an existing bucket/container. Prior to this change, Cloud Tiering automatically created it for you.

Cloud Tiering now supports two additional S3 storage classes: Zone-IA and Intelligent.

When you set up data tiering, Cloud Tiering can apply a lifecycle rule so the tiered data transitions from the Standard storage class to another storage class after 30 days. Learn more.

You can now change a volume's tiering policy after you set the initial tiering policy. For example, you can easily change from Cold snapshots to Cold user data.

Learn how to change a volume's tiering policy.

For more details:

You can now tier inactive data from your ONTAP clusters to Google Cloud Storage.

Learn how to get started

You can now select the following tiering policies when setting up tiering:

Learn about these tiering policies.

You can now choose a different tiering policy for each volume when you set up tiering.

Cloud Tiering now shows the status of tiering setup for each cluster. For example, the status might indicate that Cloud Tiering is setting up the object store, or that it successfully set up 145 volumes for data tiering. The status also identifies if any failures occurred during setup.

If you use NetApp Cloud Manager and you've already subscribed through its new AWS Marketplace offering, then you're automatically subscribed to Cloud Tiering, as well. You'll see an active subscription in Cloud Tiering in the Licensing tab. You won't need to subscribe.

If you've already subscribed through Cloud Tiering, then this change has no impact to you. You're all set.

You can now install the Service Connector on an on-premises Linux host when you tier cold data to AWS S3.
Learn more.

If you discovered ONTAP clusters through NetApp Cloud Manager, the clusters are automatically added to Cloud Tiering if they support data tiering.

If Cloud Tiering finds a connectivity problem with the object storage bucket, the tiering health indicator in the dashboard provides details about the problem.

The Controlled Availability release of Cloud Tiering has completed—​Cloud Tiering is now available for customer use from NetApp Cloud Central. A 30-day free trial is available for both AWS and Azure. It starts when you set up tiering to your first cluster.

After your free trial starts, subscribe to the Cloud Tiering service to ensure that there's no disruption of service after the trial ends. When it ends, you'll be charged hourly according to the amount of data that you tier.

Learn how to subscribe from the AWS Marketplace.

You can now tier inactive data from FlexGroup volumes to object storage, starting with ONTAP 9.5. Setup works the same as any other volume.

You can now tier inactive data from your ONTAP clusters to Azure Blob storage.

When you set up tiering for an ONTAP cluster, you now need to select the IPspace that ONTAP should use to connect to object storage. Selecting the correct IPspace ensures that Cloud Tiering can set up a connection from ONTAP to your cloud provider's object storage.

To understand the requirements for the IPspace and the associated intercluster LIFs, refer to ONTAP cluster requirements:

In addition to AFF systems, Cloud Tiering now supports FAS systems that have one or more all-SSD aggregates.

Cloud Tiering now supports ONTAP 9.2 and 9.3. This is in addition to supporting ONTAP 9.4 and later.

For ONTAP 9.4 and later, you can now choose the type of cold data that you want to tier. You can tier all cold data or just Snapshot copies.

If you have an ONTAP 9.2 or 9.3 system, you can tier Snapshot copies only.

The option is available after you click Set up Tiering.

When you set up data tiering on a cluster for the first time, you can now choose to tier cold data to the S3 Standard storage class or to the Standard-Infrequent Access storage class. Learn about these S3 storage classes.

Learn how to set up data tiering on a cluster.