NVMe protocol support

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.2 supports both NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP protocols to provision VMFS datastores. The seamless integrated workflows within the vCenter interface eases datastore provisioning. The benefits of using NVMe/FC and NVMe/TCP protocols to provision VMFS datastores include optimized performance, massive scalability and efficient handling of multiple data requests, significant reductions in latency, and efficient resource management. NVMe-based storage IO has up to 50% lower CPU utilization when compared to legacy data protocols.

Fibre Channel (FC) protocol support

ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.2 supports the FC protocol to provision vVols and VMFS datastores. The benefits of FC protocol support include high performance, reliability and stability, scalability, enhanced security, and efficient resource management.

SnapMirror active sync

SnapMirror active sync support with ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.2 includes an all-new protect cluster capability that provides an end-to-end configuration workflow to build out a vSphere Metro Storage within the vCenter UI. This enables stretched cluster configurations wherein business services continue to operate even through a complete site failure, supporting applications to fail over transparently using a secondary copy.

Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) enhancements

SRA implements the VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) specification-based disaster recovery (DR) solution. SnapMirror active sync through SRM integration supports the disaster recovery planning and orchestrating solution to provide transparent application failover.