Azure NetApp Files and Cloud Volumes Service are products that support both NFS and SMB file services without the need to manage the storage using ONTAP System Manager or the command line interface. These managed services simplify the deployment and maintenance of storage solutions in the cloud, making them suitable for users who require these file services.
To achieve data protection for your cloud data using NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for AWS, you should use NetApp's Cloud Backup service. This service offers backup and restore capabilities specifically designed to protect and archive data stored in Cloud Volumes ONTAP, ensuring long-term data protection and reliable data recovery.
To collect and monitor data using NetApp Cloud Insights from infrastructure-type assets, you must first deploy an acquisition unit. An acquisition unit gathers data from various data collectors, such as storage systems and VMs, to provide insights and monitoring capabilities.
The three types of data access are file, block, and object. File access involves reading and writing data from/to files, block access involves reading and writing blocks of data which is useful for database storage and often faster, and object access involves data stored as objects, which includes metadata and makes management and retrieval of data more flexible.
NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE) and NetApp Storage Encryption (NSE) are features that encrypt storage data. NVE provides software-based encryption at the volume level, whereas NSE uses hardware-based encryption to secure data on disk drives. Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is used for securing hardware and cryptographic functions, and Encrypted File System (EFS) is a Windows-specific feature not directly related to NetApp storage encryption.