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I am very new to NetAPP. As per my understanding, netapp is the storage provider company and ontap is the operating system supported for netapp hardwares.

Can i use NetAPP like a virtual instance in AWS or GCP ? If yes how can i create netapp instace on different cloud platforms like GCP or AWS?

Or it is like a NFS drive that we can attach to our existing virtual instance? If yes, can i attach that as a disk or i'll need to use any SDK to call netapp ?

Joseph N
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  • NetAPP's main product is a physical machine that you put in a data center, and it serves files over NFS. They have other offerings e.g. ONTAP-backed cloud storage and ONTAP VM or AMI. – root Dec 06 '20 at 08:37
  • If i dont want to use netapp hardware. but only netapp storage to store and retrieve my data (like google drive). can i use it? – Joseph N Dec 07 '20 at 05:41
  • I'm not very familiar with their cloud offering, but you can check out https://cloud.netapp.com/solutions/cloud-file-sharing. – root Dec 07 '20 at 06:12

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Netapp volumes are NFS mounts. You can mount them like any other NFS export. No need for any Netapp specific SDK.

Netapp volumes can now be created natively inside AWS. Check out Amazon FSx for Netapp ONTAP. This workshop teaches you how to deploy one and much more

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