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ONTAP drivers

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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.

Learn about ONTAP storage drivers

Warning

Astra Control provides seamless protection, disaster recovery, and mobility (moving volumes between Kubernetes clusters) for volumes created with the ontap-nas, ontap-nas-flexgroup, and ontap-san drivers. See Astra Control replication prerequisites for details.

  • You must use ontap-nas for production workloads that require data protection, disaster recovery, and mobility.

  • Use ontap-san-economy when anticipated volume usage is expected to be much higher than what ONTAP supports.

  • Use ontap-nas-economy only where anticipated volume usage is expected to be much higher than what ONTAP supports, and the ontap-san-economy driver cannot be used.

  • Do not use use ontap-nas-economy if you anticipate the need for data protection, disaster recovery, or mobility.
Driver Protocol volumeMode Access modes supported File systems supported

ontap-nas

NFS

Filesystem

RWO,ROX,RWX

"", nfs

ontap-nas-economy

NFS

Filesystem

RWO,ROX,RWX

"", nfs

ontap-nas-flexgroup

NFS

Filesystem

RWO,ROX,RWX

"", nfs

ontap-san

iSCSI

Block

RWO,ROX,RWX

No filesystem; raw block device

ontap-san

iSCSI

Filesystem

RWO,ROX

RWX is not available in Filesystem volume mode.

xfs, ext3, ext4

ontap-san-economy

iSCSI

Block

RWO,ROX,RWX

No filesystem; raw block device

ontap-san-economy

iSCSI

Filesystem

RWO,ROX

RWX is not available in Filesystem volume mode.

xfs, ext3, ext4
Note 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.