Key value proposition

Streamline and simplify day-0 to day-2 operations with enhanced security, compliance and automation capabilities

Expanded support to include FC for VMFS and NVMe-oF for VMFS only. Ease of use for NetApp SnapMirror, simple setup for vSphere metro storage clusters, and three-site VMware Live Site Recovery support

ONTAP release qualification

ONTAP 9.9.1 to ONTAP 9.16.1

ONTAP 9.12.1 to 9.15.1 for ONTAP tools 10.2.

ONTAP 9.14.1, 9.15.1, 9.16.0, and 9.16.1 for ONTAP tools 10.3.

ONTAP 9.14.1, 9.15.1, 9.16.0, and 9.16.1 for ONTAP tools 10.4.

ONTAP 9.16.1P3 and later is required for ONTAP tools 10.4 when using ASA r2 systems.

ONTAP 9.15.1, 9.16.0, 9.16.1, 9.17.0, and 9.17.1 for ONTAP tools 10.5

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 vSphere 9.0 from ONTAP tools 10.5 onwards VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 8.7 to VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0

NOTE: In ONTAP tools 10.x, SRM supports shared sites, enabling enhanced scalability and improved performance.

Protocol support

NFS and VMFS datastores: NFS (v3 and v4.1), VMFS (iSCSI and FCP)

NFS and VMFS datastores: NFS (v3 and v4.1), VMFS (iSCSI/FCP/NVMe-oF)

Scalability

Hosts and VMs: 300 Hosts, up to 10K VMs

Datastores: 600 NFS, up to 50 VMFS

Hosts and VMs: 600 Hosts

Observability

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. SCV integration and interoperable for backup.

SRA replication for iSCSI VMFS and NFS v3 datastores three-site protection combining SMAS and VMware Live Site Recovery. SRA support for FCP with VMFS.

VASA Provider support

VASA 4.0

VASA 3.0