What's new with the ONTAP Mediator
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- Cluster administration
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Volume administration
- Logical storage management with the CLI
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NAS storage management
- Configure NFS with the CLI
- Manage NFS with the CLI
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Manage SMB with the CLI
- Manage file access using SMB
- Security and data encryption
- Data protection and disaster recovery
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New enhancements to the ONTAP Mediator are provided with each release. Here's what's new.
Enhancements
ONTAP Mediator version |
Enhancements |
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1.8 |
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1.7 |
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1.6 |
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1.5 |
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1.4 |
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1.3 |
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1.2 |
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1.1 |
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1.0 |
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OS support matrix
OS for ONTAP Mediator |
1.8 |
1.7 |
1.6 |
1.5 |
1.4 |
1.3 |
1.2 |
1.1 |
1.0 |
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7.6 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (RHEL only) |
7.7 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
7.8 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
7.9 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Implied |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.0 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
RHEL 8.1 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.2 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.3 |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Obsolete |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.4 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.5 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.6 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.7 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.9 |
Yes |
TBD |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 8.10 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 9.0 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 9.1 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 9.2 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 9.3 |
Yes |
TBD |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
RHEL 9.4 |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
CentOS 8 and stream |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Rocky Linux 8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Rocky Linux 9 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
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OS refers to both RedHat and CentOS releases unless otherwise specified.
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"No" means that the OS and ONTAP Mediator are not compatible.
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Centos 8 was removed for all releases due to its rebranching. Centos Stream was deemed as not a suitable production target OS. No support is planned.
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ONTAP Mediator 1.5 was the last supported release for RHEL 7.x branch operating systems.
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ONTAP Mediator 1.6 adds support for Rocky Linux 8 and 9.
SCST support matrix
The following table shows the supported SCST version for each version of ONTAP Mediator.
ONTAP Mediator version | Supported SCST version |
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ONTAP Mediator 1.8 |
scst-3.8.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.7 |
scst-3.7.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.6 |
scst-3.7.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.5 |
scst-3.6.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.4 |
scst-3.6.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.3 |
scst-3.5.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.2 |
scst-3.4.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.1 |
scst-3.4.0.tar.bz2 |
ONTAP Mediator 1.0 |
scst-3.3.0.tar.bz2 |
Resolved issues
Change ID |
Description |
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6995122 |
When a kernel mismatch is detected, a warning message is issued and the ONTAP Mediator installation process continues without any disruption. |
7062227 |
Implemented changes to ensure the ONTAP Mediator installation process stops when OpenSSL verification failures occur. |
6912810 |
Added support for the ONTAP Mediator health check events and ONTAP support operations. |
7028815 |
Upgraded the |
7097014 |
Introduced a new script to validate certificates used by the ONTAP Mediator 1.8. |