Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files zone volume placement enhancement – Populate existing volume

Azure NetApp Files availability zone volume placement feature lets you deploy new volumes in the availability zone of your choice, in alignment with Azure compute and other services in the same zone. With this enhancement you can now obtain and, if desired, populate previously deployed, existing volumes with the logical availability zone information. This feature will not move any volumes between zones.

With this capability you can enhance workloads that were previously deployed regionally and align them with VMs in the same failure domain, for example to enable HA architectures across availability zones. Populating existing volumes will facilitate data protection as it is a pre-requisite for supporting replication across availability zones.

This feature is generally available in all AZ-enabled regions with Azure NetApp Files presence. 

Learn more:

• What's new in Azure NetApp Files
• Use availability zones zonal placement for application high availability
• Azure NetApp Files cross-region replication