Learn about ONTAP support and features for Proxmox hosts

12/10/2025 Contributors

Features supported for host configuration with NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) varies based on your version of ONTAP and Proxmox.

ONTAP feature Proxmox host version ONTAP version

ONTAP feature	Proxmox host version	ONTAP version
Provides ONTAP details for both NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP namespaces using the native `nvme-cli` package.	8.0	9.10.1 or later
NVMe/TCP is a fully supported enterprise feature	9.0	9.10.1 or later
NVMe and SCSI traffic is supported on the same host using NVMe multipath for NVMe-oF namespaces and dm-multipath for SCSI LUNs	8.0	9.4 or later

Provides ONTAP details for both NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP namespaces using the native nvme-cli package.

8.0

9.10.1 or later

NVMe/TCP is a fully supported enterprise feature

9.0

9.10.1 or later

NVMe and SCSI traffic is supported on the same host using NVMe multipath for NVMe-oF namespaces and dm-multipath for SCSI LUNs

8.0

9.4 or later

ONTAP supports the following SAN host features regardless of the ONTAP version running on your system setup.

Feature	Proxmox host version
Native NVMe multipathing is enabled by default	8.0
The `nvme-cli` package includes auto-connect scripts removing the need for third-party scripts	9.0
The native udev rule in `nvme-cli` package provides round-robin load balancing for NVMe multipath	9.0