ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 9 and ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10 feature comparison
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| Feature | ONTAP tools 9.13 | ONTAP tools 10.1 | ONTAP tools 10.2 |
|---|---|---|---|
Key value proposition |
Streamline and simplify day-0 to day-2 operations with enhanced security, compliance and automation capabilities |
Evolving ONTAP tools 10.x towards 9.x parity while extending high availability, performance, and scale limits |
Expanded support to include FC for VMFS and vVols, and NVMe-oF/FC, NVMe-oF/TCP for VMFS only. Ease of use for NetApp SnapMirror, simple setup for vSphere metro storage clusters, and three-site SRM support |
ONTAP release qualification |
ONTAP 9.9.1 to ONTAP 9.15.1 |
ONTAP 9.12.1 to ONTAP 9.14.1 |
ONTAP 9.12.1 to ONTAP 9.15.1 |
VMware release support |
vSphere 7.x-8.x VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 8.5 to VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0 |
vSphere 7.x-8.x VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 8.7 to VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0 |
vSphere 7.x-8.x VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 8.7 to VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0 |
Protocol support |
NFS and VMFS datastores: NFS (v3 and v4.1), VMFS (iSCSI and FCP) vVols datastores: iSCSI, FCP, NVMe/FC, NFS v3 |
NFS and VMFS datastores: NFS (v3 and v4.1), VMFS (iSCSI) vVols datastores: iSCSI, NFS v3 |
NFS and VMFS datastores: NFS (v3 and v4.1), VMFS (iSCSI/FCP/NVMe-oF) vVols datastores: iSCSI, FCP, NFS v3 |
Scalability |
Hosts and VMs: 300 Hosts, up to 10K VMs Datastores: 600 NFS, up to 50 VMFS, up to 250 vVols vVols: Up to 14,000 |
Hosts and VMs: 600 Hosts vVols: Up to 140,000 |
Hosts and VMs: 600 Hosts vVols: Up to 140,000 |
Observability |
Performance, capacity, and host compliance dashboards Dynamic VM and datastore reports |
Updated performance, capacity, and host compliance dashboards Dynamic VM and datastore reports |
Updated performance, capacity, and host compliance dashboards Dynamic VM and datastore reports |
Data protection |
SRA replication for VMFS and NFS FlexVols based replication for vVols SCV integration and interoperable for backup |
SRA replication for iSCSI VMFS and NFS v3 datastores |
SRA replication for iSCSI VMFS and NFS v3 datastores three-site protection combining SMAS and SRM. |
VASA provider support |
VASA 4.0 |
VASA 3.0 |
VASA 3.0 |