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ONTAP SAN Host Utilities

Learn about ONTAP support and features for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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

Feature SUSE Linux Enterprise Server host version ONTAP version

NVMe/TCP reports all optimized paths for ASA r2 systems

16

9.16.1 or later

Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 encryption is supported for NVMe/TCP

15 SP6 or later

9.16.1 or later

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

15 SP4 or later

9.12.1 or later

Persistent discovery controllers (PDCs) are supported using a unique discovery NQN

15 SP4 or later

9.11.1 or later

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

15 SP4 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

15 SP1 or later

9.4 or later

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

Feature SUSE Linux Enterprise Server host version

SAN booting is enabled using the NVMe/FC protocol

15 SP7 or later

Native NVMe multipathing is enabled by default

15 SP1 or later

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

15 SP1 or later

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

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