NetApp storage solutions are widely used to manage enterprise storage workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Resources such as storage clusters, storage virtual machines (SVMs), and working environments help organize and deliver storage services for applications and business workloads.
Although NetApp manages storage resources, the associated cloud costs originate from the underlying cloud infrastructure that hosts these deployments, including storage services, compute resources, networking, and snapshots. As storage environments expand across multiple cloud providers, understanding how these infrastructure costs relate to specific NetApp deployments becomes increasingly complex.
ManageEngine CloudSpend provides a unified view of NetApp-related cloud spending across AWS, Azure, and GCP by identifying resources using predefined NetApp tags. It associates cloud billing data with tagged NetApp resources, enabling you to monitor storage costs, understand usage patterns, and optimize cloud spending across your storage environments.
NetApp cost management is the process of tracking, analyzing, and optimizing cloud expenses associated with NetApp storage resources.
CloudSpend uses NetApp-specific tags applied to cloud resources to associate infrastructure costs with logical storage deployments. This enables you to analyze storage costs based on how your NetApp environment is organized rather than reviewing infrastructure costs independently.
Effective NetApp cost management involves:
CloudSpend simplifies NetApp cost management across AWS, Azure, and GCP by connecting cloud billing data with tagged NetApp resources.
Instead of manually identifying which cloud resources belong to a specific storage deployment, CloudSpend automatically discovers resources using predefined NetApp tags and groups the associated cloud costs under logical NetApp entities.
This enables you to:
CloudSpend also distinguishes NetApp storage costs from supporting cloud infrastructure. This enables you to determine whether increases in spending are driven by storage capacity growth, workload expansion, or the infrastructure supporting storage services.
Trend analysis and anomaly detection help identify unexpected storage cost increases. Budgets and alerts provide proactive visibility into storage spending before costs exceed expected thresholds.
By organizing cloud billing data using NetApp-specific tags, CloudSpend transforms raw infrastructure costs into meaningful storage insights that support better capacity planning and cost optimization.
CloudSpend uses the following entities to tag and track your NetApp resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
| Report category | Report display name | Description | Tag key | Tag value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetApp | NetApp Cluster ID | The NetApp cluster ID. | netapp:cluster-id | <cluster-id> |
| NetApp | NetApp SVM | The NetApp storage virtual machine. | netapp:svm | <svm> |
| NetApp | NetApp Working Environment | The NetApp working environment. | netapp:working-environment | <working-environment> |
| Report category | Report display name | Description | Tag key | Tag value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetApp | NetApp Cluster ID | The NetApp cluster ID. | netapp-cluster-id | <cluster-id> |
| NetApp | NetApp SVM | The NetApp storage virtual machine. | netapp-svm | <svm> |
| NetApp | NetApp Working Environment | The NetApp working environment. | netapp-working-environment | <working-environment> |
These tagging entities help organize cloud costs based on your NetApp storage deployments, providing greater visibility into storage utilization and cloud spending.
CloudSpend uses the entities described in the table above to tag and track your NetApp resources across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. These entities help associate cloud billing data with your storage deployments, making it easier to understand how storage costs are distributed.
The NetApp Cluster ID tag (netapp:cluster-id) identifies a logical NetApp storage cluster. CloudSpend uses this tag to attribute cloud costs to individual storage clusters, allowing you to compare storage costs across different deployments.
The NetApp SVM tag (netapp:svm) identifies a Storage Virtual Machine that logically separates storage resources for different applications or business units. CloudSpend uses this tag to associate storage costs with individual SVMs, helping you allocate storage expenses more accurately.
The NetApp Working Environment tag (netapp:working-environment) identifies the storage environment where workloads are deployed. CloudSpend uses this tag to group cloud costs by environment, enabling you to compare development, testing, and production storage deployments.
By organizing cloud costs using these NetApp-specific tags, CloudSpend enables granular cost attribution across storage environments. You can compare storage costs by cluster, SVM, and working environment, identify high-cost storage workloads, and optimize storage allocation based on usage patterns.
This structured tagging approach improves storage cost visibility, strengthens ownership across teams, and supports informed capacity planning and cost optimization.
The NetApp cost report helps you understand how your storage deployments contribute to cloud spending by organizing infrastructure costs using NetApp-specific tags.
Some of the key benefits include:
The NetApp cost report provides a centralized view of your NetApp-related cloud spending across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. By associating cloud billing data with tagged NetApp resources, the report helps you understand how storage deployments contribute to your overall cloud costs.
You can use this report to analyze storage costs across NetApp clusters, Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs), and working environments. The report also enables you to compare spending across cloud accounts, subscriptions, projects, services, and regions, making it easier to identify where storage resources are consuming cloud infrastructure.
Whether you're monitoring storage growth, allocating costs across business units, or identifying high-cost workloads, the NetApp cost report provides the insights needed to optimize your storage environment and improve cost visibility.
The Spend Analysis view helps you understand how your NetApp storage deployments contribute to cloud spending over time. By combining cloud billing data with tagged NetApp resources, it provides a detailed view of storage costs across multiple cloud environments.
From this view, you can monitor the total cost for a selected time period, identify the highest-spending cloud accounts or subscriptions, and detect anomalies that may indicate unexpected storage growth or changes in workload behavior. Comparing historical spending trends also helps you understand how storage consumption evolves as applications and data volumes increase.
You can further analyze costs across cloud services, regions, and resource groups to determine how the underlying infrastructure supporting your NetApp deployments contributes to overall spending. This helps distinguish storage-related costs from supporting compute, networking, and snapshot services.
Since cloud costs are organized using NetApp-specific tags, Spend Analysis enables you to evaluate spending by storage cluster, Storage Virtual Machine (SVM), and working environment. For example, you can identify whether a particular SVM is experiencing increased storage consumption, determine which working environment contributes the most to cloud costs, or compare storage utilization across multiple clusters.
These insights help storage administrators and cloud operations teams make informed decisions about capacity planning, storage allocation, and cost optimization while ensuring that storage resources continue to meet business requirements.
The Resource Explorer provides a detailed view of cloud costs associated with your NetApp storage resources by enabling you to analyze spending across multiple dimensions.
You can group and filter cost data by cloud accounts, subscriptions, projects, regions, services, resource groups, and tags to better understand how storage resources are distributed across your cloud environment. This flexibility makes it easier to investigate individual storage deployments or compare storage costs across different environments.
Analyzing costs using NetApp tags provides additional visibility into your storage architecture. You can group costs by Cluster ID to compare storage deployments, use the SVM tag to evaluate storage consumption for different applications or business units, and use the Working Environment tag to understand how development, testing, and production environments contribute to cloud spending.
Resource Explorer also helps identify storage deployments with higher infrastructure costs, making it easier to investigate capacity growth, optimize storage allocation, and improve cost efficiency. Combined with filtering capabilities, you can quickly isolate specific workloads, environments, or cloud regions to perform more focused cost analysis.
By organizing cloud costs around NetApp storage resources, Resource Explorer helps improve cost accountability, supports storage optimization initiatives, and enables more effective long-term capacity planning across your multi-cloud environment.