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Stack requirements

SnapDrive for UNIX requires a host operating system, host file systems, NFS, volume managers, FC or iSCSI Host Utilities, storage system licenses, ONTAP software, MultiStore software, and Internet Protocol (IP) access. SnapDrive for UNIX also has certain stack requirements which it must fulfill.

Host-side entities

The following is a list of host-side entities:

Guest-side entities for RDM LUN support

The following is a list of guest-side entities:

SnapDrive for UNIX stack

You must enter acceptable values for the multipathing-type, fstype, default-transport, and vmtype variables in the snapdrive.conf file as provided in the matrix stack. You must verify that the values entered are installed and running in your host system.

Host platform Default transport type Multipathing type fstype vmtype
Linux FCP none ext4 lvm
iSCSI none ext4 lvm
FCP nativempio ext4 lvm
iSCSI nativempio ext4 lvm
FCP none ext3 lvm
iSCSI none ext3 lvm
FCP nativempio ext3 lvm
iSCSI nativempio ext3 lvm
Note: SnapDrive for UNIX does not support the Ext2 file system.

NetApp modifies host utilities and components on an ongoing basis. You can track this changes by using the Interoperability Matrix, which contains up-to-date information for using NetApp products in a SAN environment.

The storage system license and the MultiStore license constitute the storage system entities.

Storage system licensing requirements