What's new in Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1
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Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 includes new enhancements.
Additional features and enhancements are also introduced in the latest versions of BlueXP. See the BlueXP Release Notes for details.
9.11.1 P12 (8 December 2023)
The 9.11.1 P12 patch is now available for Cloud Volumes ONTAP for all cloud providers. BlueXP will prompt you to upgrade your existing systems to this patch release.
View the list of bugs fixed in the P12 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.11.1 P6 (19 February 2023)
The 9.11.1 P6 patch is now available for Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure if you have a Connector running version 3.9.26 or later. BlueXP will prompt you to upgrade your existing systems to this patch release.
View the list of bugs fixed in the P6 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.11.1 P4 (18 December 2022)
The 9.11.1 P4 patch is now available for Cloud Volumes ONTAP for all cloud providers if you have a Connector running version 3.9.24 or later. BlueXP will prompt you to upgrade your existing systems to this patch release.
View the list of bugs fixed in the P4 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.11.1 P3 (19 October 2022)
The 9.11.1 P3 patch is now available for Cloud Volumes ONTAP for all cloud providers if you have a Connector running version 3.9.22 or later. BlueXP will prompt you to upgrade your existing systems to this patch release.
View the list of bugs fixed in the P3 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.11.1 GA (1 Aug 2022)
The General Availability (GA) release of Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 is now available. The GA release includes bug fixes.
9.11.1 RC1 (7 June 2022)
Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This release includes the following new features and enhancements.
Performance enhancement
We have enhanced the read performance of new aggregates created in 9.11.1 or later.
Increased storage efficiency
Starting with the 9.11.1 release, all new volumes enabled for storage efficiency will include a new compression feature called temperature-sensitive storage efficiency. The previous generation compression feature is no longer used.
Temperature-sensitive storage efficiency compresses data based on data temperature, or how often the data is used. Cold data, or data that is not used often, is recompressed with a higher compression ratio for increased storage efficiency.
VPC sharing in AWS
Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA pairs are now supported in AWS with VPC sharing. VPC sharing enables your organization to share subnets with other AWS accounts. Networking (the VPC, subnets, and route tables) reside in the VPC owner account, while the EC2 instances for the HA configuration reside in a participant account using shared subnets.
New AWS region support
Cloud Volumes ONTAP is now supported in the AWS Jakarta region (ap-southeast-3).
New Azure region support
Cloud Volumes ONTAP is now supported in the Azure Brazil Southeast region.
Support for 24 storage VMs in Google Cloud
24 storage VMs are now supported with Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Google Cloud for most configurations.
New Google Cloud region support
Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA pairs are now supported in the Milan (europe-west8) region.
Modifying LIF services for new storage VMs
Starting with this release, if you create a new storage VM on a Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA pair in AWS or Azure, then you need to modify the network service policies for the storage VM. Modifying the services is required because it ensures that Cloud Volumes ONTAP can use the iSCSI LIF for outbound management connections.
Note that modifying LIF services is not required for Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Google Cloud because the BlueXP API sets the LIF services for you during creation.
The commands that you need to run are specified on the following pages:
New unsupported ONTAP feature
The new multi-admin verification feature introduced in ONTAP 9.11.1 is not supported with Cloud Volumes ONTAP. Enabling multi-admin verification on Cloud Volumes ONTAP will result in an unsupported configuration.
Upgrade notes
Read through these notes to learn more about upgrading to this release.
How to upgrade
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.
Supported upgrade path
You can upgrade to Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 from the 9.11.0 release and from the 9.10.1 release. BlueXP will prompt you to upgrade eligible Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems to this release.
Required version of the Connector
The BlueXP Connector must be running version 3.9.19 or later to deploy new Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.11.1 systems and to upgrade existing systems to 9.11.1.
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Downtime
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The upgrade of a single node system takes the system offline for up to 25 minutes, during which I/O is interrupted.
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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.
Upgrades in AWS with c4, m4, and r4 EC2 instance types
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.