Back in June there was Highlights
from the ONTAP 9.0 RC1 Release Notes. This is supplemental to that post with
the changes in ONTAP 9.1 (and is my way of trying to keep up with all the
awesome developments to ONTAP.)
Changes in ONTAP
9.1: New and changed features
Data protection enhancements
-
Support for volume
encryption
-
Support for SnapLock
technology
-
Support for RAID-TEC
as the default RAID type
Manageability enhancements
-
Enhanced cluster dashboard
-
Support for cluster setup
-- “… can use System Manager to set up a new
cluster … ”
-
Support for most active files or clients functionality
-- “… can track and report the most active
instances of a file or client in a cluster using statistical sampling
techniques.”
MetroCluster configuration
enhancements
-
Support for onboard FC-VI ports on AFF A300 and FAS8200 storage systems
New hardware support
- Support
for new FAS and AFF platforms
-- “… FAS2600, FAS8200, FAS9000, AFF A300, AFF
A700 …”
- Support
for increasing the maximum SAN
cluster size to 12 nodes
- Support
for DS224C and DS212C disk shelves
Note: ONTAP 9 only supported these with AFF8080, ONTAP 9.1
expands this.
- Support
for the X1134A adapter
-- “The X1134A is a 2-port 32 Gb FC target-only
adapter”
Storage resource management
enhancements
- Support
for FlexGroup
volumes
SAN enhancements
- Support
for Foreign LUN Import (FLI) Interoperability Matrix (IMT)
- Support
for Using Foreign LUN
Import to import LUNS into AFF
- Support
for simplified SAN AFF provisioning templates
-- ONTAP 9.1 added the following template: SAN
SAP HANA
Upgrade enhancements
- Support
for installing ONTAP
software and firmware from an external USB mass storage device
-- “The USB device is specified as file://usb0/filename”
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