Multi-admin verification

Enhanced support for managing consistency groups including volume move and geometry

NDMP restore with SnapMirror Synchronous

NDMP restore is supported with SnapMirror synchronous.

SnapMirror active sync enhancements

Asynchronous SnapMirror support with a single consistency groups

Consistency groups support Asynchronous SnapMirror configurations, allowing vaulting of SnapMirror backups for single consistency groups.

NFSv4.x storepool support

A few clients consume too many NFSv4.x storepool resources leading to other NFSv4.x clients getting blocked due to unavailability of NFSv4.x storepool resources. You can have the option to enable denying and blocking of clients who consume a lot of NFSv4.x storepool resource in their environments.

Mediator-assisted automatic unplanned switchover (MAUSO) is triggered for an environmental shutdown

If one site shuts down gracefully due to an environmental shutdown, MAUSO is triggered.

Eight-node MetroCluster IP configurations support

You can upgrade the controllers and storage in an eight-node MetroCluster IP configuration by expanding the configuration to become a temporary twelve-node configuration and then removing the old DR groups.

Expanded hardware support for RDMA cluster interconnect

ONTAP supports for cluster interconnect RDMA with an X91153A cluster NIC, helping to reduce latency, decrease failover times, and accelerate communication between nodes.

Increased data LIF limits

ONTAP provides greater flexibility by increasing data LIF scaling limits for both HA pairs and clusters.

IPv6 support during cluster setup on the ETERNUS HX6100 platforms

On the ETERNUS HX6100 series, you can use the ONTAP CLI to create and configure new clusters in IPv6-only networking environments.

S3 bucket lifecycle management

S3 object expiration actions define when objects in a bucket expire. This capability enables you to manage object versions so you can meet retention requirements and manage overall S3 object storage effectively.

Support for NVMe/FC on AIX hosts

ONTAP supports the NVMe/FC protocol on AIX hosts. Please contact technical support personnel for supported configurations.

Autonomous Ransomware Protection

SSH public key authentication with Active Directory

You can use an SSH public key as your primary authentication method with an Active Directory (AD) user, or you can use an SSH public key as your secondary authentication method after an AD user.

X.509 certificates with SSH public keys

ONTAP enables you to associate an X.509 certificate with the SSH public key for an account, giving you the added security of certificate expiration and revocation checks upon SSH login.

FPolicy file access failure notification

FPolicy supports notifications for access denied events. Notifications are generated for file operation failed due to lack of permission, which includes: failure due to NTFS permissions, failure due to Unix mode bits, and failure due to NFSv4 ACLs.

Multifactor authentication with TOTP (time-based one-time passwords)

Set up local user accounts with multifactor authentication using a time-based one-time password (TOTP). The TOTP is always used as the second authentication method. You can use an SSH public key or user password as your primary authentication method.

Change in reporting of primary data reduction ratio in ONTAP System Manager

Temperature-sensitive storage efficiency

Temperature-sensitive storage efficiency adds sequential packing of contiguous physical blocks to improve storage efficiency. Volumes that have temperature-sensitive storage efficiency enabled will automatically have sequential packing enabled when systems are upgraded to ONTAP 9.13.1.

Logical space enforcement

Logical space enforcement is supported on SnapMirror destinations.

Storage VM capacity limits support

You can set capacity limits on a storage VM (SVM) and enable alerts when the SVM is approaching a percentage threshold.

Increase in maximum number of inodes

ONTAP will continue to automatically add inodes (at the rate of 1 inode per 32 KB of volume space) even if the volume grows larger than 680 GB. ONTAP will continue adding inodes until it reaches the maximum of 2,147,483,632.

Support for specifying a SnapLock type during FlexClone creation

You can specify one of three SnapLock types, either compliance, enterprise, or non-SnapLock, when creating a FlexClone of a read/write volume.

Enable File System Analytics by default

Set File System Analytics to be enabled by default on new volumes.

SVM disaster recovery fanout relationships with FlexGroup volumes

Single FlexGroup rebalancing operation

You can schedule a single FlexGroup rebalancing operation to begin at a date and time in the future that you specify.

FabricPool read performance

FabricPool provides improved sequential read performance for single and multi-stream workloads for cloud-resident data and tiering throughput. This improvement can send a higher rate of GETs and PUTs to the back end object store. If you have on-premises object stores, you should consider performance headroom on the object store service and determine whether you might need to throttle FabricPool PUTs.

Adaptive QoS policy templates

Adaptive QoS policy templates enable you to set throughput floors at the SVM level.

SVM data mobility

Increases support for migrating SVMs containing up to 200 volumes.

Support for recreating SVM directories

The new CLI command debug vserver refresh-vserver-dir -node node_name recreates missing directories and files. For more information and command syntax, see the ONTAP Command Reference.

Change in reporting of primary data reduction ratio

Tamperproof Snapshot copy locking

You can use ONTAP System Manager to lock a Snapshot copy on a non-SnapLock volume to provide protection from ransomware attacks.

Support for external key managers

You can use ONTAP System Manager to manage external key managers to store and manage authentication and encryption keys.

Troubleshooting hardware problems