What's new in Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1
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Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1 includes new enhancements.
Additional features and enhancements are also introduced in the latest versions of BlueXP. See the BlueXP Release Notes for details.
9.13.1 P12 (25 November 2024)
The 9.13.1 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).
9.13.1 P11 (14 October 2024)
The 9.13.1 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).
9.13.1 P10 (8 August 2024)
The 9.13.1 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).
9.13.1 P9 (22 May 2024)
The 9.13.1 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).
9.13.1 P8 (18 April 2024)
The 9.13.1 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).
9.13.1 P7 (1 April 2024)
The 9.13.1 P7 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 P7 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.13.1 P6 (5 February 2024)
The 9.13.1 P6 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 P6 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.13.1 P4 (8 December 2023)
The 9.13.1 P4 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 P4 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.13.1 P2 and 9.13.1 P3 (20 October 2023)
The 9.13.1 P2 and the 9.13.1 P3 patches are now available for Cloud Volumes ONTAP for all cloud providers 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.
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View the list of bugs fixed in the P3 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
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View the list of bugs fixed in the P2 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.13.1 P1 (3 October 2023)
The 9.13.1 P1 patch is now available for Cloud Volumes ONTAP for all cloud providers 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 P1 patch (NetApp Support Site login required).
9.13.1 GA (26 July 2023)
The General Availability release of Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1 is now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
9.13.1 RC1 (26 June 2023)
The Release Candidate 1 of Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1 is now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
A few FabricPool performance improvements might impact your tiered data in Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
Due to an improved read performance and tiering throughput in FabricPool, there might be a higher rate of GET and PUT operations in on-premises object stores. Ensure there's enough performance headroom for a seamless performance.
To learn more, refer to the FabricPool best practices guide
The Aggressive Readahead feature in FabricPool might increase the read operations at a file level, which in turn, can add up to the read costs and memory utilization in public cloud.
To learn more, refer to the ONTAP documentation: Enable and disable aggressive read-ahead mode
This functionality enables NFS clients to write directly to the capacity tier in FabricPool. This feature has certain limitations and should be used with caution. For example, if Cloud Write NFS traffic is added to regular ONTAP traffic, such as SnapMirror, the overall Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) in SnapMirror may be impacted.
To learn more, refer to the ONTAP documentation: Enable and disable volumes to write directly to the cloud
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 9.13.1 from the 9.12.1 and 9.13.0 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 3.9.26 or later to deploy new Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.13.1 systems and to upgrade existing systems to 9.13.1.
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Automatic upgrades of the Connector are enabled by default so you should be running the latest version. |
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.
c4, m4, and r4 instances no longer supported
In AWS, the c4, m4, and r4 EC2 instance types are no longer supported with Cloud Volumes ONTAP. 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. You can't upgrade to this release until you change the instance type.
Refer to NetApp Support to learn more about the end of availability and support for these instance types.