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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere overview

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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere is a set of tools for virtual machine lifecycle management. It integrates with the VMware ecosystem to simplify datastore provisioning and provide basic protection for virtual machines. It is a collection of horizontally scalable, event-driven microservices deployed as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA).

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere supports:

  • Core virtual machine (VM) features such as protection and disaster recovery

  • VASA Provider for storage policy-based management

  • Storage policy-based management

  • Storage Replication Adapter (SRA)

High availability for ONTAP tools for VMware

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere offers high-availability (HA) support to help maintain uninterrupted operation during failures.

The HA solution helps you recover quickly from the following types of outages:

  • Host failure - Only a single-node failure is supported.

  • Network failure

  • Virtual machine (guest OS) failure

  • Application (ONTAP tools) failure

You do not need to perform any additional configuration to enable HA for ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere.

Note

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere doesn't support vCenter HA.

To use the HA feature, ensure that CPU hot add and memory hot plug are enabled during deployment or later in the VM settings.