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Cloud Volumes ONTAP
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Known limitations in Azure

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The following known limitations are specific to Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Microsoft Azure. Be sure to also review Limitations for Cloud Volumes ONTAP in all cloud providers.

Limitations with using Azure VM extensions

Cloud Volumes ONTAP does not support Azure virtual machine (VM) extensions and VM applications in a deployment. Using Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Azure with VM extensions causes delays in operations and NetApp recommends avoiding them.

Flash Cache limitations

Cloud Volumes ONTAP uses the local NVMe storage in some VM types as Flash Cache. Note this limitation:

  • Cache rewarming after a reboot is not supported.

HA limitations

HA pairs aren't supported in some regions.

View the list of supported Azure regions.