January 24th, 2025
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, a fully managed, secure, and performant file storage service that supports SAP, Microsoft, and Linux-based applications, now offers an improved deployment method for integrating with Active Directory. NetApp Volumes relies on Microsoft Active Directory for authentication for SMB volumes. To ease the setup process, NetApp Volumes now supports a connectivity test which helps to create and validate the initial connection as a single step. Administrators can test connectivity and are presented with meaningful error messages in the event of errors which help to understand what went wrong. This helps users to understand what infrastructure changes need to be done to resolve issues. Before now, administrators had to iteratively connect and validate deployments.
Additional details on NetApp Volumes integrated backup capabilities is available in the product documentation.