ONTAP® 9 Release Notes March 2019 | 215-11139_A0_UR032 [email protected] Updated for ONTAP 9.5 Table of Contents | 3 Contents ONTAP 9 Release Notes ............................................................................. 11 Changes introduced since ONTAP 9 ......................................................... 12 Changes in ONTAP 9.5 ............................................................................................. 12 Changes in ONTAP 9.4 ............................................................................................. 13 Changes in ONTAP 9.3 ............................................................................................. 15 Changes in ONTAP 9.2 ............................................................................................. 16 Changes in ONTAP 9.1 ............................................................................................. 18 Changes in ONTAP 9.0 ............................................................................................. 20 New and changed features in the ONTAP 9 release family .................... 24 Antivirus enhancements ............................................................................................ 24 Support for Vscan on-demand scanning ....................................................... 24 Support for FQDN configuration of Vscan servers ....................................... 24 API updates ............................................................................................................... 24 Support for REST APIs ................................................................................. 24 API support for ONTAP 9 automation .......................................................... 25 CLI (command-line interface) updates ..................................................................... 25 Data protection enhancements .................................................................................. 26 Updated guidance on load-sharing mirrors ................................................... 26 MirrorAndVault is the new default policy for some SnapMirror relationships ............................................................................................. 26 Enhanced support for resynchronization of SLC volumes ............................ 26 Support for SnapMirror Synchronous technology ........................................ 26 Feature enhancements to DPO systems ........................................................ 27 Support for increased number of Snapshot copies in ONTAP 9.4 ................ 27 XDP replaces DP as the SVM replication default in ONTAP 9.4 ................. 27 SVM replication support for fan-out deployments in ONTAP 9.4 ............... 28 Support for Volume Append Mode ............................................................... 28 Support for Legal Hold feature ..................................................................... 28 Support for Event Based Retention feature ................................................... 28 Support for configuring a data protection relationship in a single step ......... 29 XDP replaces DP as the SnapMirror default in ONTAP 9.3 ......................... 29 Support for simplified cluster and SVM peering .......................................... 30 Support for volume protection ...................................................................... 31 Support for Replication between SolidFire Element OS and ONTAP .......... 31 Support for breaking protection relationships between ONTAP and SolidFire systems ..................................................................................... 31 Support for SVM unified replication ............................................................. 31 Support for encryption of data at rest ............................................................ 31 Support for encryption-free ONTAP ............................................................. 32 Data Protection Optimized (DPO) systems available for target storage ....... 33 Support for local copies on the SnapMirror destination ............................... 33 4 | Release Notes Support for triple parity RAID protection ..................................................... 33 Support for SnapLock technology ................................................................. 34 Support for cloning data protection volumes ................................................ 34 Support for excluding volumes from replication .......................................... 35 Support for excluding LIFs from replication ................................................ 35 Support for converting volume-level SnapMirror relationships to an SVM disaster recovery relationship ........................................................ 35 Support for using a SnapMirror license to enable SnapVault ....................... 35 Supported naming conventions for Snapshot copies ..................................... 35 Expiry time for Snapshot copies ................................................................... 35 Support for NDMP extension ........................................................................ 35 Support for intercluster SVM peer relationships between SVMs with the same name ............................................................................................... 36 Support for SnapMirror and SnapVault global throttling .............................. 36 Support for secondary SnapVault Snapshot copies ....................................... 36 Support for renaming SnapVault Snapshot copies ........................................ 36 Support for all SnapMirror and SnapVault cascade configurations .............. 37 File access protocol enhancements ........................................................................... 37 LDAP referral chasing ................................................................................... 37 4-byte UTF-8 encoded characters ................................................................. 37 Windows machine accounts can now be mapped to non-default users ......... 37 Enhanced support for SMB protocols ........................................................... 37 Support for name service caching ................................................................. 39 Export policy configuration checker ............................................................. 39 Domain controller discovery options for improving performance ................ 39 Support for NFS security tracing .................................................................. 39 SMB 2.0 support for domain controller connections .................................... 40 Support for new SMB auditing events .......................................................... 40 NFS clients enabled to view exports of SVMs .............................................. 40 Ability to report widelinks as reparse points based on SMB version ........... 40 Ability to display effective permissions for Windows or UNIX users .......... 40 Name service configuration checker ............................................................. 40 Support for specifying hostnames in LDAP and NIS configurations ........... 41 Changes to NetBios name service (NBNS) support ...................................... 41 Support for CIFS server in workgroup mode ................................................ 41 Enhancements for Kerberos 5 ....................................................................... 41 Support for LDAP signing and sealing ......................................................... 42 LDAP support for SHA2 hashed passwords ................................................. 42 Multiple client match specifications in NFS export rules ............................. 42 NFS export access cache enhancements ....................................................... 42 FPolicy enhancements ................................................................................... 42 Support for new CIFS auditing events .......................................................... 43 Support for managing shares using Microsoft Management Console .......... 43 FlexArray Virtualization (V-Series) enhancements ................................................... 44 Support for 16 TB array LUNs ..................................................................... 44 Table of Contents | 5 FlexArray Virtualization resiliency enhancements ....................................... 44 Support for E-series direct attached storage in FlexArray stretch MetroCluster configurations .................................................................... 44 Support for shared initiator ports and target ports for FlexArray MetroCluster configurations .................................................................... 44 Hardware support updates ......................................................................................... 45 Adapters supported on FAS and AFF systems .............................................. 45 Support for the X190100 or X190100R 100 GbE switch ............................. 45 Disk auto-assignment changes for AFF systems ........................................... 45 Support for new FAS and AFF platforms ..................................................... 46 Support for automatic Interoperability Matrix update notifications ............. 46 Support for the Baseboard Management Controller in the AFF A700s ........ 46 Support for increasing the maximum SAN cluster size to 12 nodes ............. 47 Support for DS460C, DS224C, and DS212C disk shelves