This post comes from a reading of the ONTAP 9.14.1 release notes from here: ONTAP 9 Documentation (netapp.com) – looking for new features (mostly - not enhancements) and perhaps the odd enhancement that I was curious about. With highlights. Always good to try and keep up with the new features and enhancements in new versions of ONTAP.
Note: To get the full output of new features and enhancements, please check out the release notes. This post is a summary to highlight a few things that I thought important or of particular interest.
ONTAP 9.14.1
- Data protection:
- Support for SCSI3 persistent reservations and Windows Failover Clustering with SnapMirror Business Continuity
- File access protocol:
- Support for NFSv4.1 session trunking.
- MetroCluster configuration:
- Support for multiple MetroCluster IP configurations on the same NVIDIA switches.
- Support for an S3 object storage server on an SVM in a mirrored or unmirrored aggregate in MetroCluster IP and FC configurations.
- Support for nondisruptive transitions of workloads and data from an existing MetroCluster FC configuration to a new MetroCluster IP configuration using a shared switch.
- S3 object:
- Automatic resizing enabled on new and existing S3 FlexGroup volumes.
- Storage efficiency:
- Support for scan tracking in File System Analytics
- Storage resource management:
- Support for proactively rebalancing FlexGroups by non-disruptively moving growing files within a directory toremote constituents.
- Support for writing directly to the cloud with FabricPool.
- SVM:
- Support for migrating SVMs containing user and group quotas and qtrees with SVM data mobility.
- Support for a maximum of 400 volumes per SVM, a maximum of 12 HA pairs, and pNFS with NFS 4.1 using SVM data mobility.
ONTAP 9.13.1
- Data protection:
- Support for multi-admin verification.
- Support for NDMP restore with SnapMirror Synchronous
- File access protocol:
- Support for managing NFSv4.x storepool resources.
- MetroCluster configuration:
- Support for four-node MetroCluster IP configuration upgrades using switchover and switchback.
- S3 object storage:
- Support for S3 bucket lifecycle management.
- Security:
- Multifactor authentication with time-based one-time password.
- Support for automatic transition from learning to active mode with Autonomous Ransomware Protection
- Storage resource management:
- Support for SVM DR fanout relationships with FlexGroup volumes.
- Support for SVM-wide throughput floor enhancement.
- Upgrade:
- Support for upgrading ONTAP and firmware from BlueXP.
ONTAP 9.12.1
- Data protection:
- SnapMirror Synchronous NDO
- SnapMirror Business Continuity (SM-BC) support
- Data warehouse rebuild indicator for SnapMirror synchronous
- Tamper-proof Snapshot copies
- File access protocol:
- S3 client access to NAS data
- MetroCluster configuration:
- MetroCluster automatic forced switchover feature in a MetroCluster IP configuration
- S3 on an SVM on an unmirrored aggregate in a MetroCuster IP configuration.
- Storage resource management:
- FlexGroup rebalancing support
- System Manager:
- Hardware visualization of cabling.
ONTAP 9.11.1
- Data Protection:
- SVM-DR support in MetroCluster configuration
- SAN:
- iSCSI LIF failover
- Non-destructive migration from LUN toNVMe namespace and vice versa.
- Security:
- Autonomous Ransomware protection enhancement todetect additional malware threats.
- Multi-admin verification support.
- Storage Efficiency:
- View physical footprint savings.
- Storage resource management:
- Enable file access time updates.
- File System Analytics: Activity Tracking at SVM level.
- SVM:
- SVM data mobility support
ONTAP 9.10.1
- Data Protection:
- Consistency groups support
- Public cloud data archiving of backups
- Ability to create SnapLock and non-SnapLock volumes on the same aggregate.
- MetroCluster configuration:
- Configuration of layer 3 MetroCluster IP address in MetroCluster IP configurations.
- Networking and security protocol:
- Automatic detection and repair recommendations for network wiring issues.
- S3 object sorage:
- S3 SnapMirror backup and disaster recovery protection.
- S3 audit functionality.
- Security:
- Autonomous Ransomware protection support that alerts about abnormal activity that might indicate a ransomware attach.
- Storage resource management:
- Activity tracking for hot objects with File System Analytics (FSA)
- Global file read locking.
- SVM:
- Ability to non-disruptively move SVMs between clusters.
- System Manager:
- Simplified licensing with NetApp License Files (NLFs)
- Update firmware automatically using System Manager.
- View historical use of capacity and predict future capacity needs using System Manager.
- Back up data to StorageGRID using the Cloud Backup Service
ONTAP 9.9.1
- Data Protection:
- Support for configuring different Snapshot policies on SVM DR source and destination.
- File access protocol:
- Mandatory Access Control (MAC) labelled NFS is supported when NFSv4.2 is enabled.
- MetroCluster configuration:
- MetroCluster IP support for IP-routed (layer 3) backend connections
- MetroCluster IP support for 8-node configurations
- S3 Object storage:
- S3 metadata and tags support
- SAN:
- Foreign LUN import using IMT.
- Support for 12-node clusters on ASAs
- NVMe-oF protocol on ASASs
- Support for 8-node MCC-IP on ASAs
- Storage resource management:
- SnapMirror cascade and fanout support for FlexGroup volumes
- SVM DR support for FlexGroup volumes
- System manager:
- Ansible Playbooks support with System Manager
- Hardware Visualization support in System Manager
- Active IQ integration in System Manager
- Cloud Manager integration in System Manager
ONTAP 9.8
- Data protection:
- NVE support for root volume encryption to protect root volume.
- Support for moving a SnapLock volume to a destination aggregate of the same type.
- SnapMirror Cloud using qualified vendor applications.
- File access protocol:
- Encryption support between ONTAP and domain controllers
- Improved NFSv4.1 performance with nconnect support
- Support for NFSv4.2
- MetroCluster configuration:
- Unmirrored aggregates
- Networking and security protocol:
- Switch CLI simplification.
- SAN:
- SnapMirror Business Continuity (SMBC) is a new business continuity solution available in public preview.
- NVMe protocol co-existence
- Storage efficiency enhancements:
- Temperature sensitive storage efficiency
- Storage resource management:
- ONTAP File System Analytics for FlexGroup and FlexVol volumes
- Fast Directory Delete
- Tiering to ONTAP S3 object storage
- Promotion of data to the performance tier
- FabricPool tiering from HDD
- QoS support for Qtrees
- QoS support for SVM administrator
- System Manager:
- Term “quiesce” has been changed to “pause” in System Manager
- View active NFS clients with System Manager
- Upgrade:
- MAINT Start/Stop AutoSupport message for ANDU
- Upgrade both cluster in a MetroCluster configuration
ONTAP 9.7
- File access protocol:
- Keytab files for SVM authentication with Active Directory (AD) servers
- MetroCluster configuration:
- ONTAP Mediator is supported in MetroCluster IP configurations.
- FabricPool mirrors on MetroCluster configurations
- Networking and security protocol:
- Automatic portmap service support
- S3 object storage:
- S3 object storage support
- SAN:
- Symmetric Active-Active host access
- Storage resource management:
- QoS floors
- FabricPool mirror
- Upgrade:
- Upgrade from ONTAP 9.3 directly to 9.7
ONTAP 9.6
- API changes in ONTAP 9 releases:
- Support for an ONTAP REST API
- Data protection:
- SnapLock volume
- Key management at the SVM scope
- NetApp Aggregate Encryption
- MetroCluster configuration:
- Private layer 2 network sharing
- Networking and security protocol:
- LIF service policies replace LIF roles
ONTAP 9.5
- Data protection:
- SnapMirror synchronous technology
- Networking and security protocol:
- Virtual IP (VIP) LIFs and border gateway protocol (BGP) support
- Storage resource management:
- Logical space enforcement for FlexVol volumes
- FabricPool functionality
- FlexCache volumes support
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