Which offering should a customer use to move file storage to a public cloud and manage their own storage solution?

• A. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
• B. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service
• C. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
• D. NetApp BlueXP edge caching

Answer: (A)

Moving file storage to a public cloud while still controlling how that storage is configured and managed is best achieved with a self-managed cloud ONTAP deployment. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP runs ONTAP in your chosen cloud (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) and gives you full control over volumes, protocols (NFS/SMB), snapshots, replication, data protection, tiering, QoS, and other ONTAP features. You can migrate data to the cloud and administer the storage just like you would on-prem, preserving your governance and operational practices.

Cloud Volumes Service is a fully managed NetApp file service, so NetApp handles the storage and you have less control over the underlying storage management. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a cloud service provided in AWS that abstracts some management away as well. NetApp BlueXP edge caching focuses on caching data at the edge to boost performance, not on providing a self-managed cloud file storage environment.