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What's new in Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.12.1
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Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.12.1 includes new enhancements.
Additional features and enhancements are also introduced in the latest versions of BlueXP (formerly Cloud Manager). See the BlueXP Release Notes for details.
9.12.1 P11 (22 April 2024)
The 9.12.1 P11 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 P11 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.12.1 P10 (22 April 2024)
The 9.12.1 P10 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 P10 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.12.1 P9 (5 February 2024)
The 9.12.1 P9 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 P9 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.12.1 P8 (8 December 2023)
The 9.12.1 P8 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 P8 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.12.1 GA (9 February 2023)
The General Availability (GA) release of Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.12.1 is now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. The GA release includes bug fixes.
9.12.1 RC1 (8 December 2022)
Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.12.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This release includes the following new features and enhancements.
ONTAP S3 license in GCP
An ONTAP S3 license is now included on new and existing Cloud Volumes ONTAP systems running version 9.12.1 or later in Google Cloud Platform.
NVMe-TCP support in Cloud Volumes ONTAP
NVMe-TCP is supported for cloud providers if you are using Cloud Volumes ONTAP version 9.12.1 or newer. BlueXP does not provide any management capabilities for NVMe-TCP.
For more information on configuring NVMe through ONTAP, see Configure a storage VM for NVMe.
Azure HA in a single availability zone with shared managed disks
You can now deploy a Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA configuration using Microsoft Azure locally redundant storage (LRS) running on top of shared managed disks. Locally redundant storage replicates your data three times within a single data center in the same region.
For more information about the HA configuration architecture and components, see High-availability pairs in Azure.
When you deploy a new HA pair in Azure in a single availability zone, you will now be using LRS shared managed disks rather than page blobs for storage. There's no change to the Working Environment wizard. You simply need to choose a Single Availability Zone to use this new configuration. For details, see Launching a Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA pair in Azure.
Azure HA in multiple availability zones with shared managed disks
You can now deploy a Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA configuration using Azure multiple availability zones within a region. The new configuration protects against data center failure and maintains application availability with the use of Azure zone-redundant storage (ZRS) shared managed disks. This feature is currently available only in the West US 2, West Europe, North Europe, and France Central regions.
For more information about the HA configuration architecture and components, see High-availability pairs in Azure.
To use this new configuration, see Launching a Cloud Volumes ONTAP HA pair in Azure.
To learn more about zone-redundant storage for managed disks, refer to Microsoft Azure's documentation.
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 9.12.1 from the 9.12.0 and 9.11.1 releases. 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 3.9.24 or later to deploy new Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.12.1 systems and to upgrade existing systems to 9.12.1.
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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.