Discover how the next-generation Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) for Google Cloud helps enterprises modernize critical workloads. Built on a modern, cloud-optimized architecture, the latest CVO release delivers performance and scalability gains, stronger built-in data protection, and up to a 70% reduction in TCO. You’ll see how organizations are cutting through operational complexity, boosting resilience against outages and ransomware, and laying the groundwork for an AI‑ready hybrid cloud, without expensive application overhauls.
Modern Cloud Architecture Built for High-Performance Workloads
At the core of this new release is a redesigned infrastructure stack engineered to accelerate demanding workloads, including AI/ML pipelines, enterprise databases, analytics platforms, and media applications. The shift from N2 to C3 compute instances, powered by 4th-Gen Intel Xeon processors, improves compute efficiency and delivers significantly better price-to-performance for storage-intensive workloads.
Hyperdisk: The Next Standard for Cloud Storage Performance
Google Cloud Hyperdisk replaces legacy Persistent Disk, offering configurable performance, dynamically resizable volumes, and independently provisioned IOPS and throughput. Hyperdisk Balanced volumes deliver:
- Up to 160,000 IOPS
- Up to 5 GiB/s throughput
- Sub-millisecond latency
These improvements unlock greater consistency, faster response times, and superior support for high-throughput applications.
gVNIC Networking Enhances Stability and Consistency
CVO now uses Google Virtual NIC (gVNIC), replacing VirtIO to deliver enhanced network performance, higher throughput, and reduced noisy-neighbor issues—ensuring enterprise workloads maintain predictable performance under load.
Infrastructure Manager: A Modern Cloud Deployment Experience
Google announced End-of-Support (EoS) for Cloud Deployment Manager on March 31, 2026, Deprecation is set for July 1, 2027. To modernize deployments, NetApp now supports Google Cloud Infrastructure Manager (IM), a Terraform-based managed service for CVO private ‑mode, including a path to convert existing DM setups.
In the NetApp Console, teams can deploy CVO via a guided “Add System” wizard, link billing directly to Google Cloud Marketplace from the Console, and enforce governance with role-based access control, all while choosing the licensing model that fits (Freemium, PAYGO, or capacity-based).
Performance That Redefines What’s Possible
This CVO generation dramatically outperforms previous generations across every key metric:
- Sequential Read: +102%
- Sequential Write: +96%
- Random Read IOPS: +162%
- Random Write IOPS: +56%
Maximum storage capacity doubles from 256 TiB to 512 TiB, enabling customers to consolidate more workloads per environment while reducing operational overhead.
Enterprise-grade security and resilience
Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) reinforces its role as a trusted data platform for regulated and mission-critical environments with layered security and protection capabilities. These features help teams meet strict governance requirements, defend against modern threats, and operate resiliently across regions.
Customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)
CVO supports Google Cloud’s CMEK model via Cloud KMS, so you can supply and control your own keys instead of relying solely on platform-managed keys. Outcomes include:
- Full cryptographic control over data access
- Separation of duties to meet internal governance requirements
- Rapid key disable/rotation to immediately cut off access during incidents or decommissioning
This model benefits organizations operating under frameworks like PCI DSS, HIPAA, or FedRAMP-aligned policies.
External Key Manager (Cloud EKM)
With Cloud EKM, you can keep encryption keys outside Google Cloud (for example, with a certified external KMS or HSM provider) and use them to protect data in CVO. CVO also supports the same EKM providers as on‑prem ONTAP, ensuring consistent key‑management options across your hybrid environments.
This enables:
- Independent custody & auditability in a separate trust domain
- Regulatory alignment where customer-held keys are required
- Reduced insider threat‑ exposure, since cloud operators can’t decrypt data without your keys
Secure data protection across cloud and hybrid environments
CVO provides encryption at rest via NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) and NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE), protecting all stored data—including metadata and snapshots—with AES‑256-based, FIPS-validated cryptography. For data in motion between clusters, TLS-based cluster peering‑ encryption secures SnapMirror, SnapVault, and FlexCache replication across regions and hybrid topologies.
Together, these controls deliver:
- Strong encryption at rest
- Encrypted replication for DR and multi-region designs
- Alignment with frameworks that require encryption in transit and at rest
- Confidence that critical data stays protected as it moves across your hybrid cloud
CVO layers these controls on top of ONTAP’s broader security foundation, including protocol-level TLS, external key management, and secure multiprotocol access, creating a trusted data platform for enterprise cloud operations.
Engineered for Hybrid and Multi‑Cloud Flexibility
Modern enterprises rarely operate in a single environment. They run applications across on-premises datacenters, the public cloud, and Kubernetes clusters, often simultaneously. Next Generation Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) is designed to unify these environments, delivering a consistent operational experience regardless of where your applications run.
CVO’s hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities help organizations modernize at their own pace, reduce operational friction, and enable more portable, future-proof architectures.
Unified management through NetApp Console
Whether your workloads run in Google Cloud, on-premises‑ ONTAP systems, or across multiple clouds, NetApp Console provides centralized, single-pane management for storage and data services.
What you can do:
- Centralized visibility & monitoring across environments from one control plane.
- Policy-based backups, snapshots, tiering, and replication from a unified interface.
- Automated data movement with SnapMirror to support hybrid and multi-region designs.
- Governance via roles and policies to standardize operations at scale.
Customer benefits:
- Consistent experience everywhere, reducing one-off tools and runbooks.
- Simplified operations for large, distributed estates.
- Lower operational overhead through unified workflows and shared policies.
Open automation support: Terraform, Ansible, REST APIs, and Kubernetes (Trident CSI)
CVO integrates with the automation stacks enterprises use today, so you can standardize on Infrastructure as Code and APIs.
- Terraform for declarative IaC (NetApp provider; also supported through Google Infrastructure Manager if desired).
- REST APIs for programmatic provisioning and orchestration in Console.
- Ansible support (via ONTAP modules) is common in customer pipelines; pair with Console/CVO APIs as needed.
- Trident CSI for Kubernetes to dynamically provision persistent volumes from ONTAP/CVO.
Customer benefits:
- Build once, deploy everywhere with consistent IaC workflows.
- Faster, more reliable deployments with fewer manual steps.
- Cloudnative‑ storage integration for DevOps and platform teams via CSI.
Integrated with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
As you scale containers on GKE, Trident CSI + ONTAP/CVO provide production-grade persistent storage:
- Dynamic volume provisioning with CSI.
- Snapshots and clones to accelerate dev/test pipelines.
- High-performance storage for stateful microservices on ONTAP/CVO.
- Hybrid mobility with SnapMirror to and from on-prem ONTAP.
Customer benefits:
- Accelerate app modernization without refactoring data services.
- Enable hybrid Kubernetes architectures (multi-cluster, multi-region).
- Strengthen continuity & resilience with enterprise data protection.
Why This Matters for Hybrid & Multi‑Cloud Strategies
By combining unified management, open automation, and deep Kubernetes integration, CVO helps organizations:
- Modernize at a pace that fits the business with SnapMirror‑based volume migration and external replication that minimizes downtime and eliminates the need for large‑scale, one‑time cutovers.
- Operate consistently across clouds, regions, and datacenters using NetApp Console as a single control plane with common ONTAP workflows and policies.
- Reduce tool fragmentation by centralizing visibility, policy-based protection, and automation under one interface, lowering operational risk and cost.
- Move data securely and efficiently wherever it’s needed with SnapMirror replication (encrypted in transit) to support DR, rebalancing, and hybrid patterns.
This level of flexibility—single pane control + efficient data mobility + Kubernetes-native integration, makes CVO a strong foundation for hybrid cloud transformation
Why This Matters for Your Business
The next generation‑ CVO release empowers organizations to:
- Accelerate time-to-value with faster performance and simplified operations
- Lower storage costs through intelligent data reduction and tiering
- Scale confidently with twice the capacity and dramatically improved throughput
- Boost resilience with disaster recovery, snapshots, and ransomware protection
This is cloud storage built for modern enterprises, high-performance, flexible, secure, and future-focused.
Ready to Experience the Future of Cloud Storage?
Next-generation performance for Single Node Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO) on Google Cloud is now available, giving you the performance, scale, and security your workloads demand. Built on Google Cloud’s modern infrastructure stack—including C3 compute, Hyperdisk, gVNIC networking, and Infrastructure Manager (IM)—this NextGen architecture delivers a faster, more efficient, and more scalable foundation for your cloud operations.
And there’s even more capability on the horizon: High-Availability (HA) and Multi-Availability-‑Zone (MAZ) configurations are coming soon, bringing enhanced resilience and failover protection to mission-critical workloads.
Ideal Workloads for Single Node CVO
- Proof of Concept (POC) deployments
- FlexCache acceleration
- Test/Dev environments
- Cloud bursting for elastic capacity
- Disaster recovery (DR)
- Backup and archival workflows
This NextGen release delivers a high-performance, cloud-optimized tier to help you modernize faster, reduce complexity, and unlock new levels of agility. With more enterprise-grade features on the way, you can confidently plan for growth while transforming how your teams build, deploy, and innovate in the cloud.
Get started with Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud
Modernize your infrastructure, accelerate your workloads, and reduce operational complexity with an enterprise-proven data platform from NetApp.
Start here:
- Visit the Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud page and start your free trial
- Deploy in minutes with the guided “Add System” wizard on the NetApp Console.
- Set up billing & licensing (Freemium, PAYGO, or capacity-based).
- Centralize management across on-prem and cloud with NetApp Console.
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