NetApp moved most menu options to the left-navigation pane and reorganized menus for easier navigation in the NetApp Console.

NetApp renamed several elements, data services, and features to clarify their purpose. Key changes include:

Access and manage your Console agents from the Administration > Agents menu. NetApp has changed how to select a Console agent for the Systems page (formerly the Canvas). NetApp has replaced the Connector menu name with an icon , allowing you to select the Console agent that you want to view systems for.

You can also manage your agents from the Administration > Agents menu.

NetApp has reduced the required network endpoints for the Console and Console agents, enhancing security and simplifying deployment. Importantly, all deployments prior to version 4.0.0 continue to be fully supported. While previous endpoints remain available for existing agents, NetApp strongly recommends updating firewall rules to the current endpoints after confirming successful agent upgrades.

You can deploy Console agents in VMware environments using an OVA file. The OVA file includes a pre-configured VM image with Console agent software and settings to connect to the NetApp Console. A file download or URL deployment is available directly from the NetApp Console. Learn how to deploy a Console agent in VMware environments.

The Console agent OVA for VMware offers a pre-configured VM image for quick deployment.

When you deploy a Console agent from the NetApp Console, you now have the option to validate the agent configuration. If the Console fails to deploy the agent, it provides a downloadable report to help you troubleshoot.

The Console agent has improved error messages that help you better understand issues. Learn how to troubleshoot Console agents.

The NetApp Console's Home page dashboard provides real-time visibility into storage infrastructure with metrics for health, capacity, license status, and data services. Learn more about the Home page.

New users with the Organization admin role can use the NetApp assistant to configure the Console, including adding an agent, linking a NetApp Support account, and adding a storage system.
Learn about the NetApp assistant.

The NetApp Console supports service account authentication using either a system-generated client ID and secret or customer-managed JWTs, allowing organizations to select the approach that best fits their security requirements and integration workflows. Private Key JWT Client Authentication uses asymmetric cryptography, providing stronger security than traditional client ID and secret methods. Private Key JWT Client Authentication uses asymmetric cryptography, keeping the private key secure in the customer’s environment, reducing credential theft risks, and improving the security of your automation stack and client applications. Learn how to add a service account.

The system logs out users after 24 hours or when they close their web browser.

You can create partnerships in the NetApp Console that let partners securely manage NetApp resources across organizational boundaries, making collaboration easier and security stronger. Learn how to manage partnerships.

Added the Super admin and Super viewer roles. Super admin grants full management access to Console features, storage, and data services. Super viewer provides read-only visibility for auditors and stakeholders. These roles are useful for smaller teams of senior members where broad access is common. For improved security and auditability, organizations are encouraged to use Super admin access sparingly and assign fine-grained roles where possible. Learn more about access roles.

Added the Ransomware Resilience user behavior admin role and the Ransomware Resilience user behavior viewer role. These roles allow users to configure and view user behavior and analytics data, respectively. Learn more about access roles.

NetApp has removed the support chat feature from the NetApp Console. Use the Administration > Support page to create and manage support cases.

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:

BlueXP alerts has been renamed to ONTAP alerts.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Storage > Alerts.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what's changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
== 05 March 2023

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.

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect its role in managing your data infrastructure.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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. Learn how to add new Azure Blob storage accounts.

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect its role in managing your data infrastructure.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

BlueXP backup and recovery has been renamed to NetApp Backup and Recovery.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what's changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing Hyper-V workloads:

For details about protecting Hyper-V workloads, refer to Protect Hyper-V workloads overview.

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing KVM workloads:

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

The preview release of Kubernetes workloads introduces the following enhanced capabilities:

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

The preview release of VMware workloads introduces the following enhanced capabilities:

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

This release of of NetApp Backup and Recovery introduces support for discovering and managing Oracle Database workloads:

For details about protecting Oracle Database workloads, refer to Protect Oracle workloads overview.

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 NetApp 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 NetApp 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 NetApp 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 NetApp 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 NetApp Backup and Recovery. 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 NetApp 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, NetApp 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 NetApp 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 NetApp 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, NetApp 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.

BlueXP classification has been renamed NetApp Data Classification. In addition to the rename, the user interface has been enhanced.

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect its role in managing your data infrastructure.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Find and understand your data faster with new searchable filters, per-value result counts, real-time insights summarizing key findings, and a refreshed results table with customizable columns and a slide-out details pane.

For more information, see Investigate data.

Gain critical insights faster with intuitive widgets, clearer visuals, and improved loading performance. For more information, see Review governance information about your data and View compliance information about your data.

Data Classification now enables you to automate governance with conditional actions. You can create retention rules with automatic deletion set up periodic email notifications, all managed from an updated saved queries page.

For more information, see Create policies.

Take direct control from the Investigation page - delete, move, copy, or tag files individually or in bulk, for efficient data management and remediation.

For more information, see Investigate data.

Data Classification now supports scanning on Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. Easily add Google Cloud NetApp Volumes from the NetApp Console for seamless data scanning and classification.

This Data Classification release includes bug fixes and the following updates:

The Audit page now supports enhanced insights into scan events for BlueXP classification. The Audit page now displays when the scan of a system begins, statuses of systems, and any issues. Statuses for shares and systems are only available for mapping scans.

For more information about the Audit page, see Monitor NetApp Console 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 Data Classification release includes:

Data 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.

Data 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.

Data Classification supports custom classifications for Map & Classify scans. With custom classifications, you can tailor Data Classification 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.

Data Classification supports sending classification events (when a scan is initiated and when it ends) to the NetApp Consle Audit page.

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

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

You can now deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS using a quick deployment method for both single-node and high-availability (HA) configurations. This streamlined process reduces the number of steps compared to the advanced method, automatically sets default values on a single page, and minimizes navigation, making deployment faster and easier.

For more information, refer to Deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS using quick deployment.

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 copy and sync has been renamed to NetApp Copy and Sync.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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 NetApp Copy and Sync and the data broker to fix a few bugs. The new data broker version is 1.0.56.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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 NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

BlueXP disaster recovery has been renamed to NetApp Disaster Recovery.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

This release includes the following updates:

NetApp 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 NetApp Disaster Recovery.

If you are clicking on the NetApp 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 NetApp Disaster Recovery.

Learn about access roles for all services.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

BlueXP economic efficiency has been renamed to Lifecycle planning.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Storage > Lifecycle planning.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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 ecomomic 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.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
== 21 July 2025

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

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.
== 10 July 2023

You can 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 Volumes in clusters tab within the Assets tab now includes a QoS policy override column that indicates whether QoS rules are bypassed for backup and mirror volumes, displaying true (rules ignored), false (rules enforced), or N/A (for mirror volumes).

The Overview page now includes two new alert sections named Unresolved alerts by severity and Oldest unresolved Keystone alerts. To learn more, refer to Keystone dashboard in NetApp Console.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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 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.

BlueXP ransomware protection service has been renamed to NetApp Ransomware Resilience.

The NetApp Console provides centralized management of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

Ransomware Resilience includes a new detection mechanism that can be activated in a few steps to detect anomalous user reads as an early indicator of data breach. Ransomware resilience collects and analyzes user read events by creating a historic baseline, which is a profile of expected, normal behavior from the past data. When new user activity significantly deviates from this established norm (such as an unexpected read surge combined with suspicious read patterns), an alert is generated. Ransomware Resilience includes an AI model to detect suspicious read patterns.

Unlike encryption detection by ARP at the storage layer, detection of the user behavior anomaly is done in the Ransomware Resilience SaaS service by collecting FPolicy events.

For more information, see Enable suspicious user activity detection and View anomalous user behavior.

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.

BlueXP replication has been renamed to NetApp Replication.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

BlueXP software updates has been renamed to software updates.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Health > Software updates.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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 NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what has changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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.

BlueXP tiering has been renamed to NetApp Cloud Tiering.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

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 Cloud Tiering. Learn more.

When you activate Cloud 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 Cloud Tiering total cost of ownership and savings calculator to help you calculate your cost savings.

BlueXP volume caching has been renamed to volume caching.

You can access it from the NetApp Console left navigation bar by selecting Mobility > Volume caching.

The NetApp Console, built on the enhanced and restructured BlueXP foundation, provides centralized management of NetApp storage and NetApp Data Services across on-premises and cloud environments at enterprise grade—delivering real-time insights, faster workflows, and simplified administration, that is highly secure and compliant.

For details on what’s changed, see the NetApp Console release notes.

BlueXP 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 Volume caching.

BlueXP has been renamed and redesigned to better reflect the role it has in managing your data infrastructure. As a result, BlueXP workload factory has been renamed to NetApp Workload Factory.

Ask Me, Workload Factory's AI assistant, is integrated with the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Using MCP, Ask Me securely interfaces with external environments and queries API tools to deliver responses tailored to your specific storage environment.

The NetApp Workload Factory notification service includes the notification for well-architected issues for Storage.

Notifications for NetApp Workload Factory

The BlueXP workload factory notification service includes the notification for automatic capacity management for Storage.

Notifications for BlueXP workload factory