Get supported capacity tiers

09/29/2025 Contributors

You can retrieve the supported capacity tiers for Google Cloud disk types.

Choose the workflow to use based on the type of Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployment:

Single Node
HA pair

Get capacity tiers for a single node

You can use this workflow to retrieve the capacity tiers in a single node system.

Step 1. Select the permutations

Perform the workflow Get permutations and choose the ontapVersion, license: type, instanceType, and region: code values of the required permutations for the query parameters of supported capacity tiers request.

Step 2. Get the supported features

HTTP method and endpoint

This REST API call uses the following method and endpoint.

HTTP method	Path
GET	/occm/api/gcp/vsa/metadata/supported-capacity-tiers

Curl example

curl --request GET \
--location "https://api.bluexp.netapp.com/occm/api/gcp/vsa/metadata/supported-capacity-tiers?region=<REGION>&ontapVersion=<ONTAP_VERSION>&dataEncryptionType=<ENCRP_TYPE>&licenseType=<LICENSE_TYPE>&instanceType=<INST_TYPE>" \
--header "x-agent-id: <AGENT_ID>" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json"

Additional input parameters

The JSON input example includes the minimum list of parameters.

Query parameters:

<REGION> region string
<ONTAP_VERSION> ontapVersion string
<LICENSE_TYPE> licenseType string
<INST_TYPE> instanceType string
<ENCRP_TYPE> dataEncryptionType string

Output

The output shows a list of supported capacity tiers for the Google Cloud disk types.

JSON output example

{
    "supportedCapacityTiersPerVolumeType": [
        {
            "volumeType": "pd-standard",
            "supportedCapacityTiers": [
                "cloudStorage"
            ],
            "availableTieringPolicies": [
                "none",
                "snapshot_only"
            ]
        },
        {
            "volumeType": "pd-ssd",
            "supportedCapacityTiers": [
                "cloudStorage"
            ],
            "availableTieringPolicies": [
                "none",
                "snapshot_only"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "capacityTiersDisableReasons": [
        "Cannot create capacity tiered volume on Cloud Volumes ONTAP Explore license"
    ],
    "compositeSupported": true,
    "forceCompositeVersion": false
}

Get capacity tiers for a high availability pair

You can use this workflow to retrieve the capacity tiers in an HA system.