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Astra Trident provides five unique ONTAP storage drivers for communicating with ONTAP clusters. Learn more about how each driver handles the creation of volumes and access control and their capabilities.
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| Driver | Protocol | volumeMode | Access modes supported | File systems supported |
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NFS |
Filesystem |
RWO,ROX,RWX |
"", nfs |
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NFS |
Filesystem |
RWO,ROX,RWX |
"", nfs |
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NFS |
Filesystem |
RWO,ROX,RWX |
"", nfs |
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iSCSI |
Block |
RWO,ROX,RWX |
No filesystem; raw block device |
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iSCSI |
Filesystem |
RWO,ROX RWX is not available in Filesystem volume mode. |
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iSCSI |
Block |
RWO,ROX,RWX |
No filesystem; raw block device |
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iSCSI |
Filesystem |
RWO,ROX RWX is not available in Filesystem volume mode. |
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ONTAP backends can be authenticated using login credentials for a security role (username/password) or using the private key and the certificate that is installed on the ONTAP cluster. You can update existing backends to move from one authentication mode to the other with tridentctl update backend.
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