A customer is setting up NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for a general-purpose file share workload to ensure data availability. Which action should the…

Data availability ensures that data is accessible and usable upon demand. While Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) can be deployed in a High Availability (HA) configuration to protect against infrastructure failures, implementing a backup strategy is the primary and most fundamental action to protect against a wider range of threats to availability, such as data corruption, accidental deletion, or catastrophic failures. NetApp Cloud Backup Service is designed specifically for CVO to create block-level, incremental-forever backups, enabling reliable data restoration and thus ensuring data remains available even after a data loss event.

A. enabling compression: This is a storage efficiency feature that reduces storage costs by decreasing the physical space data consumes. It does not inherently improve data availability.

B. enabling encryption: This is a security feature that protects data confidentiality by preventing unauthorized access. It is crucial for security but does not ensure data availability.

D. tiering inactive data: This is a cost-optimization feature that moves infrequently accessed data to lower-cost object storage. Its primary goal is to reduce storage costs, not to enhance availability.

1. NetApp Cloud Backup Documentation: "NetApp Cloud Backup is a backup and restore service for Cloud Volumes ONTAP and on-premises ONTAP clusters. It delivers backup and restore capabilities for protection, and long-term archive of your cloud data." This statement directly links the backup service to data protection, a core component of ensuring availability.

Source: NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Learn about Cloud Backup".

2. Technical Report TR-4598: Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS Design and Implementation Considerations: This report discusses data protection strategies. Section 5, "Data Protection," explicitly covers backup and recovery as a key method. It states, "NetApp Cloud Backup service for Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides a simple, efficient, and secure backup and restore solution... It enables you to back up data from Cloud Volumes ONTAP volumes to low-cost object storage." This highlights backup as a designed data protection mechanism.

Source: NetApp TR-4598, Section 5, "Data Protection," Page 21.

3. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP Documentation - Storage Efficiency: This documentation describes features like compression and deduplication. It states, "Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides several storage efficiency features that enable you to store more data in less space." This confirms the primary purpose is cost and space savings, not availability.

Source: NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Managing storage efficiency".