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NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud comparison

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud are both solutions in the Cloud Migration category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0, while NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is ranked #18. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP holds a 14.9% mindshare in CM, compared to NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 17, 2024

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud compete in the cloud storage solutions category. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP stands out due to its flexibility and performance, while NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is favored for its seamless integration and support.

Features: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is praised for its efficient data management, backup capabilities, and versatility in various cloud environments. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud receives positive feedback for its automatic scaling, native integration with Google Cloud services, and efficient data management.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest that NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP could improve initial setup complexity, cost predictability, and provide better user documentation. For NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, users recommend enhancing documentation, offering more detailed cost analytics, and improving data migration tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is noted for its complex but highly customizable deployment, supported by attentive customer service. NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is highlighted for its straightforward deployment and strong integration with Google Cloud's customer support.

Pricing and ROI: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP users mention higher initial setup costs but value its long-term ROI and cost-efficiency in multi-cloud setups. Users of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud find it offers competitive pricing and satisfactory ROI through Google's pay-as-you-go model.

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Categories and Ranking

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Ranking in Cloud Migration
1st
Ranking in Cloud Storage
2nd
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
62
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (14th), Cloud Software Defined Storage (1st)
NetApp Cloud Volumes Servic...
Ranking in Cloud Migration
18th
Ranking in Cloud Storage
18th
Ranking in Public Cloud Storage Services
19th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is 14.9%, down from 18.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud is 1.6%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Pramod-Talekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution
The tool's most valuable features are the SnapLock and SnapMirror features. If something goes wrong with the data, we can restore it. This isn't a mirror; we store data in different locations. If there's an issue on the primary site, we can retrieve data from the secondary site. Multiprotocol support in NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is beneficial because it allows customers to manage SAN and NAS data within a single storage solution. This feature eliminates the need to purchase different types of storage.
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Enables us to fine-tune storage and capacity on the fly as our needs grow or shrink over time
NetApp delivers High Availability. It's critical to our work. That was the main driver for using NetApp. We have a highly resilient service and if you have a highly resilient service, you are only as resilient as the least resilient part of your infrastructure. That's what we were having trouble with our file system before. It was becoming troublesome, so we needed to find something that was much more highly resilient so that's why we moved to NetApp. The complexity of moving large numbers of files to the cloud depends on what you're trying to do. But for us, it was really simple. I imagine for large enterprise customers it is probably pretty tricky. They're probably on all different technologies inside a large corporation and they may or may not have very large pipes going to them. So if you're in a data center to the cloud then it's going to be easy, but if you have hundreds of branches like if you're a bank and have lots of branch banks, they might have very small pipes out to the internet. It might take forever. In our use case everything's brand new files, so it was pretty trivial. We didn't migrate to the cloud, we were already on the cloud, so it was a nonissue for us. NetApp enables us to share data across VMs. It actually reduced the amount of data storage we need. We were having to have storage attached to each VM. And now we can aggregate that storage across multiple VMs, so that actually gave us a net reduction, which was a good thing. We switched from using block storage to file storage to share data between our VMs. It made it easier, frankly but I worry about the scalability in the future. For the moment it made life easier. We were using block and then we moved back to file with NetApp.
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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"If you have a fair amount of experience with NetApp, you can work on it very easily."
"One of the most valuable features is its similarity to the physical app, which makes it familiar. It's almost identical to a real NetApp, which means you can run all of the associated NetApp processes and services with it. Otherwise, we would definitely have to deploy some hardware on a site somewhere, which could be a challenge in terms of CapEx."
"The FlexClones make all the management easier for us."
"This solution has helped us because it is easy to use."
"If you have a larger amount of data than normal in cloud, it is easy to provision and maintain. Waiting for the delivery of the controller, the configuration of enclosures, etc., all this stuff is eliminated compared to using on-premise."
"The stability has been really good."
"The most valuable features are tiering to S3 and being able to turn it on and off, based on a schedule."
"Snapshots are one valuable feature within ONTAP, but CVO's appeal is that it acts just like the on-prem solution. It's the same OS, but in the cloud. We can continue to use ONTAP as we did on-premise."
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"In terms of its storage snapshot efficiencies, the service is highly efficient. We are only doing things in small batches right now because we have not converted all of the data, but we have tested them in the Google Cloud and they work efficiently."
"Storage was taking up maybe 10 to 20% of my life at the startup, and now it takes up zero. I was personally running all the infrastructure for the company. Now that we've moved to NetApp, I don't have to worry about making sure it's up and running. It's made my life personally much better."
"High availability is very important to us because we have a production environment. High availability is the highest priority for us to continue keeping our systems running."
 

Cons

"Scale-up and scale-out could be improved. It would be interesting to have multiple HA pairs on one cluster, for example, or to increase the single instances more, from a performance perspective. It would be good to get more performance out of a single HA pair."
"I would like to see more information about Cloud Volumes ONTAP using Google Cloud Platform on NetApp's website."
"It definitely needs improvement with respect to clustering and with respect to more collaborative integrations with Azure. Right now, we have very limited functionalities with Azure, except for storage. If CVO could be integrated with Azure that would help. When there is any sort of maintenance happening in the cloud, it disrupts the service in Cloud Volumes ONTAP."
"The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"The product is more restricted with underlying cloud."
"I would want more visibility and data analytics where we can see anomalies within the shares within the GUI."
"I would like to see something from NetApp about backups. I know that NetApp offers some backup for Office 365, but I would like to see something from NetApp for more backup solutions."
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"The user interface has room for improvement. We would like this service to be more integrated with Azure, which is very easy to manage and use. It was easy to create volumes and add capacity pools in Azure, but in Google Cloud, we can only create separate volumes. We need more management or configuration options in the user interface."
"I would like for the sales team to get in contact more often and let me know what I should be doing next, what we should be doing about new features. So it would be nice if I heard a little bit more from him. From a technology perspective, I have no complaints."
"It would help if they increased the area in which they employ artificial intelligence, by starting to do assessments on the environments, to project those. They're not using any AI tools, currently, on the administrative side."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They allow a special price if you are working closely with them. Since we have a lot of NetApp systems, we got some kind of discount. That's something they do for other customers, not just for us. The price was fair. In addition to the licensing fees, you're paying Amazon for your usage..."
"Overall, the pricing of NetApp is aggressive and the pricing becomes more aggressive as the amount of data increases. The cost for a given volume of data that you are storing becomes lower. The greater the volume of data, the cheaper the license."
"The solution's pricing is reasonable."
"We find the pricing to be favorable due to the educational sector we belong to."
"It is not a cheap solution because we need to pay for the license and pay for Azure resources as well."
"If a customer is only using, say, less than 10 terabytes, I don't think CVO would be a good option. A customer using at least 100 or 200 terabytes should get a reasonable price from NetApp."
"Cost is a big factor, because a lot of companies can't afford enterprise grade equipment all the time. They skimp where they can. I would recommend that they improve the cost."
"The cost is quite high."
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"We don't need so much space, and there is no option to pay as we go or use just what we need. Also, the only way to increase performance is by increasing the level of the service."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
29%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Educational Organization
30%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
The solution's pricing is reasonable.
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What needs improvement with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
NetApp's support could improve.
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Comparisons

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Also Known As

ONTAP Cloud, CVO, NetApp CVO
CVS for Google Cloud, NetApp CVS for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud, Cloud Volumes Service for GCP, NetApp Cloud Volumes Service for GCP
 

Overview

NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is an efficient storage management solution for managing and storing data in the cloud. It offers seamless integration with cloud providers, advanced data replication capabilities, and high data protection. With reliable performance, it is ideal for industries like healthcare and finance.

NetApp

NetApp® Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud is a fully managed or self-managed file service that is integrated into Google Cloud with the multiprotocol support, performance, and availability required to run business-critical applications. It is designed to provide massively parallel shared access to thousands of Google Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine instances, enabling your applications to achieve high levels of aggregate throughput and IOPS with consistent low latencies.

Use cases. Customers can use the service to migrate existing enterprise applications to Google Cloud. Other use cases include hybrid deployments, multicloud mobility, big data analytics, web serving and content management, application development and testing, media and entertainment workflows, database backups, container storage, and more.

Features. Multiple performance tiers, standard file interfaces, advanced data management, metered service, fully managed service, native service experience, integrated support, and integrated billing.

For more information:

NetApp: https://cloud.netapp.com/cloud-volumes-service-for-gcp

Google: https://cloud.google.com/netapp

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Sample Customers

1. Accenture 2. Acer 3. Adidas 4. Aetna 5. AIG 6. Apple 7. Bank of America 8. Barclays 9. Bayer 10. Berkshire Hathaway 11. BNP Paribas 12. Cisco 13. Coca-Cola 14. Comcast 15.ConocoPhillips 16. CVS Health 17. Dell 18. Deutsche Bank 19. eBay 20. Eli Lilly 21. FedEx 22. Ford 23. Freescale Semiconductor 24. General Electric 25. Google 26. Honeywell 27. IBM 28. Intel 29. Intuit 30. JPMorgan Chase 31. Kellogg's 32. KeyCorp 33. Liberty Mutual 34. L'Oréal 35. Mastercard
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