Supported configurations for Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.6 in Azure Edit on GitHub Request doc changes

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Cloud Volumes ONTAP is available in Azure in two pricing options: pay-as-you-go and Bring Your Own License (BYOL). For pay-as-you-go, you can choose from three configurations: Explore, Standard, or Premium.

Supported configurations by license

Cloud Volumes ONTAP is available in Azure as a single-node system and as an HA pair.

Single node systems

You can choose from the following configurations when deploying Cloud Volumes ONTAP as a single-node system in Azure:

Explore Standard Premium BYOL

Supported virtual machine types

DS3_v2

  • DS4_v2

  • DS13_v2

  • DS5_v2

  • DS14_v2

  • DS3_v2

  • DS4_v2

  • DS5_v2

  • DS13_v2

  • DS14_v2

Supported disk types 1

Standard HDD Managed Disks, Standard SSD Managed Disks, and Premium SSD Managed Disks

Cold data tiering to Blob storage 2

Not supported

Supported

License capacity limit
(disks + object storage)

2 TB

10 TB

368 TB

Term

Hourly

12 months

Notes:

  1. Enhanced write performance is enabled when using SSDs, but not when using the DS3_v2 virtual machine type.

  2. Data tiering is not supported with the DS3_v2 virtual machine type.

  3. For Azure region support, see Cloud Volumes Global Regions.

HA pairs

You can choose from the following configurations when deploying Cloud Volumes ONTAP as an HA pair in Azure:

Explore Standard Premium BYOL

Supported virtual machine types

Not supported

  • DS4_v2

  • DS13_v2

  • DS5_v2

  • DS14_v2

  • DS4_v2

  • DS5_v2

  • DS13_v2

  • DS14_v2

Supported disk types

Not supported

Premium page blobs

Cold data tiering to Blob storage 2

Not supported

Supported

License capacity limit
(disks + object storage)

Not supported

10 TB

368 TB

Term

Not supported

Hourly

12 months

Notes:

  1. For Azure region support, see Cloud Volumes Global Regions.

Supported disk sizes

In Azure, an aggregate can contain up to 12 disks that are all the same type and size.

Single node systems

Single node systems use Azure Managed Disks. The following disk sizes are supported:

Premium SSD Standard SSD Standard HDD

  • 500 GB

  • 1 TB

  • 2 TB

  • 4 TB

  • 8 TB

  • 16 TB

  • 32 TB

  • 100 GB

  • 500 GB

  • 1 TB

  • 2 TB

  • 4 TB

  • 8 TB

  • 16 TB

  • 32 TB

  • 100 GB

  • 500 GB

  • 1 TB

  • 2 TB

  • 4 TB

  • 8 TB

  • 16 TB

  • 32 TB

HA pairs

HA pairs use Premium page blobs. The following disk sizes are supported:

  • 500 GB

  • 1 TB

  • 2 TB

  • 4 TB

  • 8 TB