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What's new in Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.10.0

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Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.10.0 includes several new features and enhancements.

Additional features and enhancements are also introduced in the latest versions of BlueXP. See the BlueXP Release Notes for details.

9.10.0 GA (4 Oct 2021)

The 9.10.0 GA release is available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This release includes the following new features and enhancements.

Improved write performance

We improved Cloud Volumes ONTAP write performance when high write speed is enabled.

Increased NVRAM disk size in Azure

The NVRAM disk size was increased from 128 GiB to 512 GiB for new Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems in Azure.

Note If you choose a single node system and the virtual machine supports Ultra SSDs, then the system uses a 32 GiB Ultra SSD for NVRAM, rather than a 512 GiB Premium SSD.

Required version of the BlueXP Connector

The BlueXP Connector must be running version 3.9.11 or later to deploy new Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.10.0 systems and to upgrade existing systems to 9.10.0.

Upgrade notes

  • Upgrades of Cloud Volumes ONTAP must be completed from BlueXP. You should not upgrade Cloud Volumes ONTAP by using System Manager or the CLI. Doing so can impact system stability.

  • You can upgrade to Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.10.0 from the 9.9.1 release. BlueXP will prompt you to upgrade your existing Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.9.1 systems to the 9.10.0 release.

    Learn how to upgrade when BlueXP notifies you.

  • The upgrade of a single node system takes the system offline for up to 25 minutes, during which I/O is interrupted.

  • Upgrading an HA pair is nondisruptive and I/O is uninterrupted. During this nondisruptive upgrade process, each node is upgraded in tandem to continue serving I/O to clients.

  • In AWS, the c4, m4, and r4 EC2 instance types are no longer supported with new Cloud Volumes ONTAP deployments. If you have an existing system that's running on a c4, m4, or r4 instance type, you must change to an instance type in the c5, m5, or r5 instance family. If you can't change the instance type, you need to enable enhanced networking before upgrading.

    Learn how to upgrade in AWS with c4, m4, and r4 EC2 instance types.
    Learn how to change the EC2 instance type for Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

    Refer to NetApp Support to learn more about the end of availability and support for these instance types.

DS3_v2

Starting with the 9.9.1 release, the DS3_v2 VM type is no longer supported with new and existing Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems. If you have an existing system running on this VM type, you'll need to change VM types before you upgrade to 9.10.0.