ONTAP software support and limitations for ASA r2 storage systems

09/23/2024 Contributors

While ASA r2 systems offers a wide range of support for SAN solutions, certain ONTAP software features are not supported.

ASA r2 systems do not support the following:

iSCSI LIF failover
FabricPool
LUN thick provisioning
MetroCluster
Object protocols
ONTAP S3 SnapMirror and S3 APIs
SnapMirror to Cloud
SnapMirror to non-ASA r2 systems
Selective LUN Map (SLM)

ASA r2 systems support the following:

Snaplock
Dual-layer encryption

For more information

See the NetApp Hardware Universe for more information on ASA r2 hardware support and limitations.
Learn how to lock snapshots on your ASA r2 system.
Learn how to apply dual-layer encryption to data on your ASA r2 system.