The 9.8 release of the ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere includes several new features and enhancements.
Starting with the 9.8 release, the virtual appliance for VSC, VASA Provider, and SRA is renamed to ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere.
Starting with the 9.8 release of ONTAP tools, you can now provision FlexGroup datastores and set QoS policies for FlexGroup backed datastores. You can also monitor virtual machines performance provisioned on FlexGroup datastores.
ONTAP tools supports SAN datastores (All SAN Array) up to the size of 64TB.
Starting with the 9.8 release, ONTAP tools supports enhanced SRA performance, increased datastore size, and protection groups (500 protection groups).
ONTAP tools 9.8 release supports REST APIs for vVols file metrics.
From the 9.8 release of ONTAP tools, SRA supports synchronous SnapMirror operations.
Starting with the 9.8 release of ONTAP tools, rebalancing support for vVols datastore is provided to redistribute vVols across existing FlexVol volumes.
The 9.8 release of ONTAP tools supports ONTAP 9.8 and ONTAP Select.
The 9.8 release of ONTAP tools provides enhanced default storage capability profiles and also supports user-defined storage capability profiles across upgrades.
The 9.8 release of ONTAP tools supports deployment on VMware's Tanzu platform that enables you to run containerized applications.