Learn about the platform license offerings for ONTAP Select
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You can purchase an ONTAP Select Capacity Tier or Capacity Pool license in the standard, premium, or premium XL level. These license offerings determine the capabilities of the hosts where you deploy ONTAP Select.
What a platform license offering provides
A specific license offering determines the capabilities of the hypervisor host in two areas:
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Instance type (CPU, memory)
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Additional features
The license offerings are arranged in an ascending order of capabilities from standard to premium XL. In general, the license option you choose grants you the capabilities of that level and all lower levels. For example, the premium level provides the capabilities of both premium and standard.
The following table compares the capabilities for the standard, premium, and premium XL license offerings.
| License supports … | Standard | Premium | Premium XL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Instance type |
Small only |
Small or medium |
Small, medium, or large |
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Hard disk drives (HDD) in a … |
Hardware RAID configuration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
vNAS configuration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Solid state drives (SSD) in a … |
Hardware RAID configuration |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Software RAID configuration |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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vNAS configuration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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NVMe drives in a … |
Hardware RAID configuration |
No |
No |
Yes |
Software RAID configuration |
No |
No |
Yes |
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vNAS configuration |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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MetroCluster SDS |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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Kernel-Based Virtual Machines (KVM) do not support the large instance type. |
Compare hardware support for platform license offerings
The standard, premium, and premium XL license offerings support a wide range of hardware and software. For up-to-date information on hardware and software versions, see the Interoperability Matrix Tool.
Core item type |
Description |
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Host protocols |
NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NVMe over TCP |
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Deployment options |
Single node |
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Supported capacity (per node) |
Up to 400TB raw data (ESXi and KVM) |
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Hardware type |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
Instance size |
Small |
Medium |
Large |
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CPU family |
Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) or later |
Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) or later |
Intel Xeon E5-26xx v3 (Haswell) or later |
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ONTAP Select CPU / memory |
4 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) / 16GB of RAM |
8 vCPUs / 64GB of RAM |
16 vCPUs / 128GB of RAM |
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Host CPU / memory minimum requirements 1 |
6 cores / 24GB of RAM |
10 cores / 72GB of RAM |
18 cores / 136GB of RAM |
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Network (per node) |
Minimum of two 1GbE ports for a single node cluster |
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1 Assumes two cores and 8GB of RAM for the hypervisor.
The following table provides the minimum license type required for the specified storage.
Storage type |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
License type |
Standard |
Premium |
Premium XL |
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Instance size |
Small |
Small and medium |
Small, medium, and large |
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Local DAS with hardware RAID controller |
8 - 60 drives |
8 - 60 drives |
8 - 60 drives |
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HDD (SAS, NL-SAS, SATA) |
Not applicable |
4 – 60 drives |
4 – 60 drives |
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SSD (SAS) |
Not applicable |
4 – 60 drives (SSD only) |
4 – 60 drives (SSD only) |
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Local DAS with software RAID |
Not applicable |
Applicable |
4 - 14 drives (NVMe only) |
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External arrays 1 |
Datastores hosted on external arrays are connected through FC, FCoE, iSCSI, and NFS (NFS isn't supported for KVM). These datastores provide high availability and resilience. |
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1 External array protocol support reflects networked storage connectivity.
Software type |
Description |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
Hypervisor support (VMware) |
VMware vSphere 8.0GA and updates 1 through 3 |
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Hypervisor support (KVM) |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 64-bit (KVM) 9.6, 9.5, 9.4, 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0, 8.8, 8.7, and 8.6 |
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Management software |
NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager management suite |
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