NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.15 Appliance License Bundle

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.15 is a software-defined storage service that delivers NetApp's enterprise ONTAP data management capabilities across leading public cloud environments including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The Appliance License Bundle packages the ONTAP 9.15 software entitlement with the compute and storage resources required to operate Cloud Volumes ONTAP as a fully managed, cloud-native storage appliance. Built on the same ONTAP kernel that underpins NetApp's on-premises FAS and AFF systems, version 9.15 introduces enhancements to autonomous ransomware protection (ARP), expanded NVMe/TCP support, and improvements to BlueXP-driven operational visibility and policy enforcement.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.15 supports both single-node and high-availability configurations, with HA pairs delivering continuous availability through synchronous mirroring and automatic storage failover in under 60 seconds. The platform supports NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF protocols simultaneously, enabling mixed-workload consolidation without protocol silos. Native data services include inline deduplication, compression, compaction, thin provisioning, and FlexClone instant volume cloning — all of which operate without performance penalty and reduce cloud storage consumption. Storage efficiency ratios in typical enterprise deployments regularly exceed 2:1, with all-flash optimized workloads achieving higher ratios through adaptive compression and temperature-sensitive storage tiering to low-cost object storage (Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage).

The Appliance License Bundle is suited to enterprise IT organizations requiring predictable capacity entitlements rather than consumption-based metering. Licensed capacity is tied to the provisioned logical size of volumes, and the bundle model allows organizations to align cloud storage expenditure with capital planning cycles. The solution integrates with NetApp BlueXP for unified hybrid cloud management, SnapMirror for cross-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises replication, SnapVault for backup policy enforcement, and Cloud Backup Service for object-based long-term retention. Compliance features include immutable Snapshot copies, WORM (SnapLock) volumes, and integration with Azure Policy, AWS CloudTrail, and Google Cloud Audit Logs for governance reporting.

Ideal for

• Enterprise database hosting (Oracle, SQL Server, SAP HANA) in public cloud requiring consistent low-latency I/O, crash-consistent Snapshots, and SnapMirror-based DR replication to a secondary cloud region or on-premises ONTAP system
• AI and machine learning pipeline storage, providing high-throughput NFS datastores for GPU compute clusters in AWS or Azure, with FlexClone enabling rapid dataset versioning and experiment reproducibility without duplicating storage capacity
• Hybrid cloud disaster recovery target, leveraging SnapMirror replication from on-premises ONTAP arrays to Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.15 HA pairs to achieve RPO in minutes and RTO under one hour for Tier-1 applications
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and end-user computing in cloud environments, using SMB shares with opportunistic locking, space-efficient FlexClone linked clones, and storage QoS to support thousands of concurrent desktop sessions
• Regulated industry data management for financial services, healthcare, and government workloads requiring SEC 17a-4 and FINRA-compliant WORM storage via SnapLock Compliance volumes alongside ARP threat detection and audit logging
• DevOps and CI/CD pipeline acceleration, where FlexClone instant cloning of multi-terabyte production datasets enables parallel development, testing, and staging environments at near-zero additional storage overhead

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.