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For details about known issues, limitations, and upgrade cautions in ONTAP 9 releases, refer to the ONTAP 9 Release Notes. You must sign in with your NetApp account or create an account to access the Release Notes.

Platform support

Platforms Available beginning

ASA r2 systems

  • ASA A1K

  • ASA A70

  • ASA A90

ONTAP 9.16.0

FAS70 and FAS90

ONTAP 9.15.1

ONTAP 9.15.1

ASA C250

ONTAP 9.13.1P1

ASA C400

ONTAP 9.13.1P1

ASA C800

ONTAP 9.13.1P1

FAS2820

ONTAP 9.13.1

ASA A150

ONTAP 9.13.1

ASA A250

ONTAP 9.13.1

ASA A400

ONTAP 9.13.1

ASA A900

ONTAP 9.13.1

ONTAP 9.12.1P1

ONTAP 9.13.1 GA and later ONTAP releases

Note

These platforms are not supported with ONTAP 9.13.1 RC1.

AFF A150

Note

Do not attempt to install or boot your AFF A150 storage system with an unsupported version of ONTAP. If you attempt to install or boot your system with an unsupported version of ONTAP, ONTAP will allow it (ONTAP will not block the attempt). The consequence is that your AFF A150 storage system will come up as a FAS2750 storage system.

ONTAP 9.13.1 and later ONTAP releases

ONTAP 9.12.1P1

ONTAP 9.11.1P8

ONTAP 9.10.1P12

FAS9500

ONTAP 9.11.1

ONTAP 9.10.1P3

AFF A900

ONTAP 9.10.1

AFF A250/AFF ASA A250

ONTAP 9.8

FAS500f

ONTAP 9.8

AFF ASA A800

ONTAP 9.8

FAS8300

ONTAP 9.7

FAS8700

ONTAP 9.7

AFF A400

ONTAP 9.7

AFF ASA A220

ONTAP 9.7

AFF ASA A700

ONTAP 9.7

AFF C190

ONTAP 9.6

AFF A320

ONTAP 9.6

Switch support

Switches Description Available beginning

NVIDIA IP SN2100 switch

The NVIDIA IP SN2100 storage switch is supported in MetroCluster IP configurations that use the A900/FAS9500 platforms.

ONTAP 9.12.1

NVIDIA IP SN2100 switch (X190006)

The NVIDIA IP SN2100 storage switch is supported in MetroCluster IP configurations that use the following platforms:

  • FAS500f/AFF A250

  • FAS8300/AFF A400

  • FAS8700

  • FAS9000/AFF A700

  • AFF A800

ONTAP 9.10.1P3

36-port 100 GbE Cisco switch (X190200)

Supports a shared Infrastructure (Cluster, HA, and switch-attached storage) on the same pair of Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 switches, including support for MetroCluster IP configurations.

ONTAP 9.9.1

36-port 100 GbE Cisco switch (X190200 and X190210)

Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2 cluster interconnect switch and storage switch support for AFF/FAS controllers, as well as for front-end data connectivity.

ONTAP 9.8

Broadcom BES-53248 switch (X190005 and X190005R)

Broadcom BES-53248 cluster interconnect switch support for AFF/FAS controllers with 40/100GbE ports.

ONTAP 9.8

36-port 100 GbE Cisco switch (X190200) 32-port 100 GbE Cisco switch (X190100 and X190100R)

Cisco Nexus 100 GbE switch can be used as a dedicated storage switch to connect NS224 NVMe drive shelves to the following platforms:

  • AFF A800/AFF ASA A800

  • AFF A700/AFF ASA A700

  • AFF A400/AFF ASA A400

  • AFF A320

ONTAP 9.8

Broadcom BES-53248 switch (X190005 and X190005R)

Broadcom BES-53248 cluster interconnect switch support for AFF/FAS controllers with 10/25GbE ports.

ONTAP 9.5P8

Shelf support

Shelves Available beginning

NS224

ONTAP 9.6

Hardware updates

Functionality Description and where to learn more Available beginning

Multi-Cluster Interconnect switch

Multi-Cluster configurations allow multiple clusters to share the same cluster switch, provided through two new Reference Configuration Files for 4x4 and 2x8 node configurations.

ONTAP 9.14.1

Expanded platform support for NS224 drive shelves

The following platforms support NS224 drive shelves:

  • AFF A800/AFF ASA A800

  • AFF A700/AFF ASA A700

  • AFF A250/AFF ASA A250

  • FAS500f

ONTAP 9.8

Hot-adding 12Gb SAS shelves to 6Gb SAS storage stacks

A single speed transition from 6Gb to 12Gb in a SAS storage stack is now supported. This enables storage expansion of existing 6Gb stacks with 12Gb shelves.

Hot-adding shelves with IOM12 modules to a stack of shelves with IOM6 modules

ONTAP 9.7P4

ONTAP 9.6P9

ONTAP 9.5P14