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ONTAP Select support for ONTAP features

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ONTAP Select supports most ONTAP features. Many of the ONTAP features are licensed automatically for each node when you deploy a cluster. However some features require a separate license.

Note ONTAP features that have hardware-specific dependencies are generally not supported with ONTAP Select.

ONTAP features licensed by default

The following ONTAP features are supported with ONTAP Select and licensed by default.

Feature Learn about Notes

Autonomous Ransomware Protection (ARP)

ONTAP Autonomous Ransomware Protection

ONTAP Select only supports ARP manual updates.

CIFS

ONTAP SMB

Deduplication and compression

Managing storage volumes

External key management using the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP)

Enabling and configuring external key management

FlexCache

ONTAP FlexCache write-back

ONTAP Select supports FlexCache cache volumes with write-back.

Caution: There are limitations to FlexCache write-back with ONTAP Select. For more information, refer to FlexCache write-back with ONTAP Select.

FlexClone

ONTAP FlexClone volumes

iSCSI

NDMP

NDMP for ONTAP FlexVol volumes

NetApp Volume Encryption

ONTAP NetApp volume and aggregate encryption

ONTAP Select supports NetApp Volume Encryption in non-restricted countries only.

NFS

ONTAP file access for the NFS protocol

NFS over TLS

Enabling NFS over TLS

ONTAP Select supports NFS over TLS using the CLI. System Manager is not supported.

NVMe over TCP

Managing NVMe services

ONTAP multitenancy capability

ONTAP SVM use cases

ONTAP S3

ONTAP S3 configuration

S3 SnapMirror

ONTAP SnapMirror S3

SnapLock Select

ONTAP SnapLock

SnapLock Select is the implementation of ONTAP SnapLock designed for ONTAP Select and includes SnapLock Enterprise. It does not include SnapLock Compliance.

SnapMirror

ONTAP SnapMirror asynchronous disaster recovery

ONTAP Select does not support consistency groups in Asynchronous SnapMirror.

SnapRestore

Restoring the contents of a volume from an ONTAP snapshot

SnapMirror DR, archive (previously known as SnapVault)

ONTAP SnapMirror replication workflow

Storage VM disaster recovery (SVM DR)

ONTAP SnapMirror SVM replication

ONTAP Select supports SVM DR as both a source and destination with a maximum of 16 relationships. SVM DR support is limited to the use of the source ONTAP version to versions +2. For example, the ONTAP Select 9.16.1 source can connect to destination ONTAP versions 9.16.1, 9.17.1, or 9.18.1.

ONTAP features that are separately licensed

You need to acquire a separate license for the following ONTAP features that are supported by ONTAP Select but are not licensed by default.

Feature Learn about Note

FabricPool

ONTAP FabricPool

You do not need a FabricPool license when utilizing StorageGRID.

MetroCluster SDS

MetroCluster SDS for ONTAP Select

This is an ONTAP Select premium license offering.

SnapMirror cloud

SnapMirror cloud backups to object storage

You need to open a non-technical support case to obtain a SnapMirror cloud license.
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