A customer has several NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP instances across multiple cloud providers. They need to run some of the Cloud Volumes ONTAP…

Cloud Volumes ONTAP is packaged as an Amazon EC2 AMI.

AWS Outposts extends native EC2/EBS services into the customer’s datacenter, so the same AMI can be deployed on-prem while being managed from BlueXP in an AWS Region.

NetApp documentation explicitly lists “AWS Outposts” as a supported environment for Cloud Volumes ONTAP beginning with release 9.11.1, enabling customers to bring existing CVO-based workflows on-premises.

A. VMware Cloud hosts VMware VMs; Cloud Volumes ONTAP requires AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud constructs—not vSphere VMs.

C. Google Anthos manages Kubernetes/hybrid apps; it does not provide the EC2/Azure VM substrate required for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

D. Azure Stack offers on-prem Azure services, but Microsoft Marketplace images for Cloud Volumes ONTAP are not supported there per NetApp support matrix.

1. NetApp BlueXP Docs, “Planning for Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS – Supported AWS environments (includes Outposts)”, section ‘Regions and Zones’, rev. 3/2023.

2. NetApp Release Notes, Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 for AWS, “What’s New – Support for AWS Outposts”, p.2.

3. NetApp Technical Report TR-4948, “Cloud Volumes ONTAP on AWS Outposts: Architecture and Best Practices”, §2 Deployment Prerequisites, pp.4-5.

4. Microsoft Docs, “Azure Stack Hub Marketplace Image Support”, table – NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP: Not supported (accessed 2023-04-11).