Cloud Volumes ONTAP is packaged as an Amazon EC2 AMI.

AWS Outposts extends native EC2/EBS services into the customer’s datacenter, so the same AMI can be deployed on-prem while being managed from BlueXP in an AWS Region.

NetApp documentation explicitly lists “AWS Outposts” as a supported environment for Cloud Volumes ONTAP beginning with release 9.11.1, enabling customers to bring existing CVO-based workflows on-premises.

A. VMware Cloud hosts VMware VMs; Cloud Volumes ONTAP requires AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud constructs—not vSphere VMs.

C. Google Anthos manages Kubernetes/hybrid apps; it does not provide the EC2/Azure VM substrate required for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

D. Azure Stack offers on-prem Azure services, but Microsoft Marketplace images for Cloud Volumes ONTAP are not supported there per NetApp support matrix.

1. NetApp BlueXP Docs, “Planning for Cloud Volumes ONTAP in AWS – Supported AWS environments (includes Outposts)”, section ‘Regions and Zones’, rev. 3/2023.

2. NetApp Release Notes, Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 for AWS, “What’s New – Support for AWS Outposts”, p.2.

3. NetApp Technical Report TR-4948, “Cloud Volumes ONTAP on AWS Outposts: Architecture and Best Practices”, §2 Deployment Prerequisites, pp.4-5.

4. Microsoft Docs, “Azure Stack Hub Marketplace Image Support”, table – NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP: Not supported (accessed 2023-04-11).

A Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) allows a company to use its pre-committed Azure spending for eligible third-party solutions available in the Azure Marketplace. This directly addresses the customer's need to use NetApp services without a new, separate budget.

The Pay-as-you-go (PayGo) model allows customers to subscribe to NetApp services directly from the Azure Marketplace, with all charges billed through their Azure account, thus drawing down the MACC. A Private Offer is a customized deal created by NetApp for the customer within the Azure Marketplace, which also enables billing through Azure and qualifies for MACC drawdown. Both models leverage the existing financial commitment with Microsoft.

A. Keystone: Keystone is a Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) offering billed by NetApp. While it can run in Azure, it is not a direct Azure Marketplace licensing model for leveraging a MACC.

C. BYOL: Bring Your Own License (BYOL) requires the company to have already purchased a license directly from NetApp, which contradicts the "no additional budget" constraint for the software license itself.

1. NetApp Official Documentation, "Get more from your Microsoft Azure Commitment with NetApp": "You can use your Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC) to purchase NetApp’s solutions on the Azure Marketplace. ... You can purchase NetApp solutions through the Azure Marketplace using a private offer or a public pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) listing." (This document directly confirms both PayGo and Private Offer as valid methods for using MACC).

2. Microsoft Azure Documentation, "Azure consumption commitment benefit": "Your organization's Azure consumption commitment (MACC) or Azure commit to consume (ACC) includes your spending on all Azure services and select Azure Marketplace offers. ... Eligible Marketplace offers include... many popular solutions from our partners." (This confirms that third-party solutions like NetApp's are eligible to be counted towards a MACC).

3. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Licensing for Cloud Volumes ONTAP": This page details the primary licensing models available in cloud marketplaces, listing "Pay-as-you-go (PAYGO)" as a method where "you purchase a subscription to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP software from the cloud provider’s marketplace." This confirms PayGo is a standard marketplace transaction method.

The scenario requires creating multiple copies of S3 object data with different protection schemes and in different locations, including an external public cloud. This is achieved in NetApp StorageGRID using Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) rules. A key component of this strategy is the Cloud Storage Pool, which is specifically designed to tier or back up object data from a StorageGRID system to an external S3-compatible endpoint, such as Amazon S3. The administrator would configure a Cloud Storage Pool pointing to AWS and then create an ILM rule that makes a local replicated copy, a geo-dispersed erasure-coded copy, and finally, archives a copy to the Cloud Storage Pool for backup to Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

B. FabricPool: This is a NetApp ONTAP feature for tiering cold data from high-performance ONTAP aggregates to object storage, not a feature within StorageGRID for managing S3 buckets.

C. Flash Pool: This is a NetApp ONTAP feature that creates a hybrid storage aggregate (SSD+HDD) to use flash as a cache, which is unrelated to StorageGRID object management.

D. Dynamic Disk Pool: This is a data protection technology for NetApp E-Series (SANtricity) block storage systems, not for the StorageGRID object storage platform.

1. NetApp StorageGRID 11.7 Documentation - Manage ILM:

Section: "What a Cloud Storage Pool is"

Content: "A Cloud Storage Pool provides a way for a StorageGRID system to store object data in a public cloud, on the same or a different StorageGRID system, or on a non-NetApp S3-compatible storage system. You can use Cloud Storage Pools for long-term archival or as a low-cost storage option." This directly supports the use of a Cloud Storage Pool to send a copy to Amazon S3.

Reference: NetApp StorageGRID 11.7 Documentation, Manage ILM, "What a Cloud Storage Pool is"

2. NetApp StorageGRID 11.7 Documentation - ILM concepts:

Section: "How ILM rules work"

Content: "An ILM rule can include one or more placements. For example, you might create a rule that stores one replicated copy of an object at your main data center and a second replicated copy at a remote data center... You can also create rules that store erasure-coded copies or that move objects to a Cloud Storage Pool." This confirms that a single ILM rule can manage replicated, erasure-coded, and cloud-tiered copies simultaneously.

Reference: NetApp StorageGRID 11.7 Documentation, ILM, "ILM concepts"

3. NetApp ONTAP 9 Documentation - FabricPool:

Section: "Overview of FabricPool"

Content: "FabricPool is a NetApp data tiering technology that enables you to automatically tier cold data from a high-performance all-flash (SSD) aggregate to a low-cost object store tier." This confirms FabricPool is an ONTAP, not a StorageGRID, feature.

Reference: NetApp ONTAP 9 Documentation, "Overview of FabricPool"

NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery is designed to protect data from on-premises ONTAP clusters by creating copies in cloud object storage, such as Microsoft Azure Blob. The service directly supports the backup of fundamental ONTAP data constructs. This includes ONTAP volumes, which contain file-based (NFS/SMB) and block-based (LUN) data. Additionally, BlueXP backup and recovery explicitly supports backing up data stored in ONTAP S3 buckets, which serve object data directly from the on-premises cluster. These two represent the primary, native data sources on an ONTAP system that can be targeted for backup to the cloud.

A. Microsoft SQL Server: While BlueXP can create application-consistent backups for SQL Server, it does so by protecting the underlying ONTAP volume where the database resides, making the volume the direct data source.

C. Microsoft Azure Stack: Microsoft Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform. It is a potential deployment location for infrastructure, not a data source residing on a separate on-premises ONTAP system.

1. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Learn about backing up ONTAP data": This document states, "BlueXP backup and recovery enables you to back up data from your on-premises ONTAP clusters and from your Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems to low-cost object storage in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud... You can back up volumes from your on-premises ONTAP clusters..." This directly supports the backup of NetApp ONTAP volume data (B).

Source: NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery documentation, concept-backup-ontap.html.

2. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Back up ONTAP S3 data": This guide explicitly details the procedure for protecting ONTAP S3 data. It states, "You can use BlueXP backup and recovery to back up and restore data from ONTAP S3 buckets on your on-premises ONTAP clusters to object storage in the cloud or on premises." This directly supports the backup of NetApp ONTAP S3 data (D).

Source: NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery documentation, task-backup-s3-data.html.

3. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Learn about application-aware data protection": This reference explains that for applications like Microsoft SQL Server, BlueXP "creates an application-consistent snapshot of the volumes used by the application." This clarifies that the volume is the source being backed up, making option A an indirect answer compared to the more fundamental source in option B.

Source: NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery documentation, concept-app-aware-backup.html.

The most appropriate mechanism to add a new set of related personal data identifiers, such as those from an Oracle database, into BlueXP classification is by creating a custom category. A custom category acts as a container to group one or more custom patterns (defined by regular expressions) that identify the specific format of the data. This category can then be easily managed and applied to scanning policies, allowing BlueXP to discover this new class of proprietary sensitive data alongside its built-in identifiers. This approach provides a structured and scalable way to extend the classification capabilities.

A. RegEx: While regular expressions (RegEx) are used to define the specific pattern of the identifier, the "custom category" is the higher-level management mechanism used to group and apply these patterns within a policy.

C. Data Fusion: This is a Google Cloud data integration service for building ETL/ELT pipelines and is not a feature within NetApp BlueXP for defining custom data identifiers for classification.

D. custom keywords: This is used for identifying specific, static words or phrases. It is generally unsuitable for database identifiers, which typically follow a variable but structured pattern best matched by RegEx.

1. NetApp BlueXP classification documentation, "Managing classification policies": This document explains the role of categories in policy management. It states, "You can create custom categories that include the built-in personal data types and your own custom patterns (regular expressions)." This highlights that the category is the primary organizational unit for new data types.

Source: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/bluexp-classification/task-managing-policies.html (Refer to the section on "Custom categories").

2. NetApp BlueXP classification documentation, "Adding custom patterns to identify sensitive data": This document details the creation of the patterns themselves. It shows that a custom pattern (RegEx) is the foundational element, which is then logically grouped and managed via a custom category for policy application.

Source: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/bluexp-classification/task-adding-custom-patterns.html (Refer to the introductory paragraph and procedural steps).