Azure NetApp Files documentation

Learn how to use Azure NetApp Files to create NetApp accounts, capacity pools, volumes, and manage data protection.

• Azure NetApp Files Documentation
• Overview
  • What is Azure NetApp Files
  • What's new
  • Azure NetApp Files for Azure Government
• Quickstarts
  • Set up Azure NetApp Files and create an NFS volume
• Concepts
  • Volumes as a service
    • Understand NAS
    • Understand NAS protocols
    • Understand NAS permissions
      • Understand NAS share permissions
      • Understand NAS file permissions
      • Understand SMB file permissions
      • Understand NFS permissions
        • Understand mode bits
        • Understand auxiliary/supplemental groups
        • Understand NFSv4.x access control lists
    • Understand dual-protocol security style and permission behaviors
    • Understand data encryption
    • Understand guidelines for Active Directory Domain Services
    • Understand DNS
    • Understand the use of LDAP
    • Understand NFS group memberships and supplemental groups
    • Understand file locking
    • Understand volume languages
    • Understand file path lengths
  • Azure NetApp Files essentials
    • Storage hierarchy of Azure NetApp Files
    • Service levels for Azure NetApp Files
    • Guidelines for Azure NetApp Files network planning
    • Resource limits for Azure NetApp Files
    • Understand large volumes
    • Requirements and considerations for large volumes
    • High file counts
      • Understand maxfiles
      • Understand maximum directory sizes
    • Ways to monitor Azure NetApp Files
    • Metrics for Azure NetApp Files
    • Azure Policy definitions for Azure NetApp Files
    • Storage service add-ons
  • Cost optimization
    • Cost model for Azure NetApp Files
    • Azure NetApp Files storage with cool access
    • Azure NetApp Files reserved capacity
  • Quotas
    • Understand volume quota
    • Understand volume hard quota
    • Regional capacity quota
    • Understand default and individual user and group quotas
  • Performance
    • Best practices and considerations
      • General performance considerations for Azure NetApp Files
      • Understand workload types
      • Linux direct I/O best practices
      • Linux filesystem cache best practices
      • Linux NFS mount options best practices
      • Linux concurrency best practices
      • Linux NFS read-ahead best practices
      • SMB performance best practices
      • Azure virtual machine SKUs best practices
      • Performance considerations for cool access tiering
      • Performance impact of Kerberos on NFSv4.1
      • AVS datastore performance considerations for Azure NetApp Files
    • Performance tests
      • Performance benchmark test recommendations for Azure NetApp Files
      • Testing methodology
      • Regular volume performance benchmarks for Linux
      • Large volume performance benchmarks for Linux
      • Oracle database performance on Azure NetApp Files single volumes
      • Oracle database performance on Azure NetApp Files multiple volumes
      • Azure NetApp Files datastore performance benchmarks for AVS
  • Application volume groups
    • Understand application volume groups
    • Application volume groups for SAP HANA
      • Understand application volume group for SAP HANA
      • Requirements and considerations for application volume group for SAP HANA
    • Application volume groups for Oracle
      • Understand application volume group for Oracle
      • Requirements and considerations for application volume group for Oracle
  • Data protection and resiliency
    • Understand data protection and disaster recovery options
    • How Azure NetApp Files snapshots work
    • Azure NetApp Files backup
      • Understand Azure NetApp Files backup
      • Requirements and considerations for Azure NetApp Files backup
    • Disaster recovery with cross-region replication
      • Understand cross-region replication
      • Requirements and considerations for cross-region replication
    • High availability and resiliency with availability zones and cross-zone replication
      • Use availability zones for high availability
      • Understand cross-zone replication
      • Requirements and considerations for cross-zone replication
    • Azure Application Consistent Snapshot AzAcSnap tool
      • What is AzAcSnap?
        • Introduction to AzAcSnap
        • Release Notes for AzAcSnap
      • Get started with AzAcSnap
        • Overall workflow
        • Install AzAcSnap
        • Configure Database
          • All databases
          • SAP HANA
          • Oracle Database
          • IBM Db2
          • Microsoft SQL Server PREVIEW
        • Configure Storage
          • All storage
          • Azure NetApp Files
          • Azure Large Instance
          • Azure Managed Disk PREVIEW
        • Configure AzAcSnap
        • Test configuration of AzAcSnap
        • Backup your database with AzAcSnap
      • Disaster recovery using AzAcSnap
      • Tips for using AzAcSnap
      • Troubleshoot AzAcSnap
      • Preview release features of AzAcSnap
  • Solutions and benefits
    • Solution architectures using Azure NetApp Files
    • Benefits of using Azure NetApp Files
      • Benefits of using Azure NetApp Files with Oracle Database
      • Benefits of using Azure NetApp Files for Electronic Design Automation EDA
      • Benefits of using Azure NetApp Files with Azure Virtual Desktop
      • Benefits of using Azure NetApp Files for SQL Server deployment
  • Security
    • Understand data plane security
    • Understand control plane security
    • Security baseline
• How-to guides
  • Register and set up
    • Register for NetApp Resource Provider
    • Create a NetApp account
    • Delegate a subnet to Azure NetApp Files
    • Request region access
  • Manage Active Directory
    • Create and manage Active Directory connections
    • Modify Active Directory connections
    • Configure AD DS LDAP authentication for NFS volumes
    • Join a Linux VM to an Active Directory Domain
  • Manage capacity pools
    • Set up a capacity pool
    • Manage a manual QoS capacity pool
    • Manage billing by using tags
  • Manage volumes
    • Manage NFS volumes
      • Create an NFS volume
      • Configure NFSv4.1 ID domain
      • Configure NFSv4.1 Kerberos encryption
      • Configure AD DS LDAP with extended groups for NFS
      • Configure an NFS client for Azure NetApp Files
      • Convert an NFS volume between NFSv3 and NFSv4.1
      • Disable showmount
    • Manage SMB volumes
      • Create an SMB volume
      • Enable Continuous Availability on existing SMB volumes
      • Use DFS-N and DFS Root Consolidation with Azure NetApp Files
    • Manage dual-protocol volumes
      • Create a dual-protocol volume
    • Manage volume access and encryption
      • Configure export policy for NFS or dual protocol
      • Configure Unix permissions and change ownership mode
      • Configure access control lists for NFSv4.1
      • Manage SMB share ACLs in Azure NetApp Files
      • Configure network features for a volume
      • Configure customer-managed keys
      • Configure customer-managed keys with managed HSM
      • Configure Virtual WAN
    • Mount volumes
      • Mount an NFS volume for Windows or Linux VMs
      • Mount an SMB volume for Windows VMs
    • Manage volume capacity and performance
      • Monitor the capacity of a volume
      • Resize a capacity pool or a volume
      • Dynamically change the service level of a volume
      • Manage default and individual user and group quotas for a volume
      • Manage storage with cool access
    • Update Terraform-managed volume
  • Manage application volume groups
    • Manage application volume groups for SAP HANA
      • Deploy the first SAP HANA host
      • Add hosts to a multiple-host SAP HANA system
      • Add volumes for an SAP HANA system as a secondary database in HSR
      • Add volumes for an SAP HANA system as a DR system
      • Manage volumes in an application volume group for SAP HANA
      • Configure application volume groups for SAP HANA using REST API
    • Manage application volume groups for Oracle
      • Deploy application volume group for Oracle
      • Manage volumes in an application volume group for Oracle
      • Configure application volume group for Oracle using REST API
      • Deploy application volume group for Oracle using Azure Resource Manager
    • Delete an application volume group
  • Manage data protection
    • Manage volume snapshots
      • Create an on-demand snapshot
      • Manage snapshot policies
      • Edit the Hide Snapshot Path
      • Restore a snapshot to a new volume
      • Restore individual files using single-file snapshot restore
      • Restore a file from a snapshot using a client
      • Restore a volume using snapshot revert
      • Delete snapshots
    • Manage volume backups
      • Configure backups
        • Configure policy-based backups
        • Configure manual backups
      • Manage a backup vault
      • Manage backup policies
      • Search backups
      • Restore a backup
      • Delete backups
    • Manage replication
      • Create cross-region replication
      • Display health and monitor status of replication relationship
      • Manage disaster recovery
      • Delete volume replications or volumes
      • Re-establish volume replication relationships
      • Test disaster recovery with cross-region replication
    • Manage availability zones and cross-zone replication
      • Manage availability zone volume placement
      • Create cross-zone replication
  • Relocate
    • Relocate volume to another region
  • Develop
    • REST API
    • REST API using PowerShell
    • SDKs, CLI tools, and ARM templates
  • Troubleshoot
    • Troubleshoot using diagnose and solve problems tool
    • Troubleshoot capacity pool errors
    • Troubleshoot volume errors
    • Troubleshoot application volume group errors
    • Troubleshoot snapshot policy errors
    • Troubleshoot cross-region replication errors
    • Troubleshoot Resource Provider errors
    • Troubleshoot user access on LDAP volumes
    • Troubleshoot file locks
• FAQs
  • Networking FAQs
  • Capacity management FAQs
  • NFS FAQs
  • SMB FAQs
  • Performance FAQs
  • Application resilience FAQs
  • Data migration and protection FAQs
  • Application volume group FAQs
  • Azure NetApp Files backup FAQs
  • Security FAQs
  • Integration FAQs
• Reference
  • REST
  • Resource Manager template
  • Azure CLI
  • Manage preview features with Terraform Cloud and AzAPI Provider
  • Automated NFS volume failover using automounter
  • AzAcSnap command reference
    • -c configure
    • -c test
    • -c backup
    • -c details
    • -c delete
    • -c restore
    • --runbefore or --runafter
• Resources
  • Azure NetApp Files tools
  • Pricing
  • Regional availability
  • Feature availability
  • SLA
  • Videos
  • Select an Azure data store for your application
  • Compare access with NFS to Azure Blob Storage, Azure Files, and Azure NetApp Files
  • Azure Files and Azure NetApp Files comparison
  • Azure NetApp Files on Microsoft Q&A