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ONTAP SAN Host Utilities

Learn about ONTAP support and features for Rocky Linux

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

Feature Rocky Linux host version ONTAP version

Secure in-band authentication is supported over NVMe/TCP between a RHEL host and an ONTAP controller

9.3 or later

9.12.1 or later

NVMe/TCP provides namespaces using the native nvme-cli package

8.2 or later

9.10.1 or later

NVMe/TCP is a fully supported enterprise feature

9.0 or later

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

8.2 or later

9.4 or later

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

Feature Rocky Linux host version

Native NVMe multipathing is enabled by default

10.0 or later

SAN booting is enabled using the NVMe/FC protocol

9.4 or later

The nvme-cli package includes auto-connect scripts removing the need for third-party scripts

8.2 or later

The native udev rule in nvme-cli package provides round-robin load balancing for NVMe multipath

8.2 or later

Note For details on supported configurations, see the Interoperability Matrix Tool.

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