The customer wants to deploy storage in the public cloud with security, resilience, high availability, and cost-efficient performance. Which NetApp solution meets these requirements?

• A. AFF
• B. StorageGRID
• C. BlueXP Observability
• D. Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Answer: (D)

This question tests finding a cloud storage solution that provides security, resilience, high availability, and cost-efficient performance in the public cloud. Cloud Volumes ONTAP brings NetApp’s ONTAP data-management capabilities directly into cloud environments, so you can run file and block storage with the same proven features you rely on on-prem.

Security is built in through data encryption at rest and in transit, plus integration with cloud key management and role-based access control, ensuring only authorized users can access data. For resilience and high availability, you can deploy a non-disruptive, high-availability pair within a cloud region, and use SnapMirror to replicate data to another region or cloud for disaster recovery, maintaining access even if part of the system experiences an issue. Performance remains cost-efficient thanks to ONTAP’s storage-efficiency features like inline deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning, which reduce storage costs, along with the ability to tier colder data to cheaper object storage in the cloud. This combination lets workloads scale in the cloud while keeping costs aligned with usage.

Other options either focus on on-prem hardware, are primarily object storage without the same cloud-backed data-management and HA capabilities, or are management tools rather than storage services, so they don’t meet all these requirements in the cloud the way Cloud Volumes ONTAP does.