SnapDrive for UNIX 5.0 and later versions support some features of clustered Data ONTAP.
The following features are supported:
- Port sets
- Vserver
- Handling errors caused by volume migration using the appropriate configuration variables
- Crash-consistent (consistency groups) Snapshot copies
- AutoSupport
- Raw Device Mapping (RDM) logical unit number (LUN) for Vservers
- Role-based access control (RBAC) with Operations Manager console
- Load-sharing mirrors
(LSM)
A load-sharing mirror reduces the network
traffic to a FlexVol volume by providing additional read-only
access to the clients. You can create and manage the load-sharing mirrors
to distribute read-only traffic away from a FlexVol volume.
Load-sharing mirrors do not support Infinite Volumes. A set of
load-sharing mirrors consists of a source volume that can connect
with one or more destination volumes. Each load-sharing mirror in
the set must belong to the same Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) as
the source volume of the set. The load-sharing mirrors should
also be created on different aggregates and accessed by different
nodes in the cluster to achieve proper load balancing of client
requests.
For more information, see the Clustered Data ONTAP Logical Storage Management
Guide.Note: - LSM is supported with clustered Data ONTAP 8.2 and higher version of ONTAP. But you will have to configure cluster administrator if you are using clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.2 and below version using snapdrive config set -cserver command.
- LSM is not supported on any versions earlier than ONTAP 8.2
even if the cluster administrator is configured.
- IPspaces
An IPspace defines a distinct IP address space in
which Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs) can be created. A routing
table is maintained for each SVM within an IPspace; no cross-SVM
or cross-IPspace traffic routing occurs.
For more
information, see the Clustered Data ONTAP
Network Management Guide.Note: This feature is supported only if
you are using clustered Data ONTAP 8.3.
- MetroCluster setup
This feature is supported only if you are using
clustered Data ONTAP 8.3. For information about MetroCluster
setup, see the Clustered Data ONTAP
MetroCluster Installation and Configuration
Guide.
- Tokens to
reserve space on node to create FlexClone files and FlexClone
LUNs
You must have the FlexClone license if you
want to use this feature. For more information, see the Clustered Data ONTAP Logical Storage Management
Guide.
- Custom qtree exports
The
qtree can have different exportfs policy than the parent
volume.
Note: This feature is supported only if you are using
clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.1 and later.
- Federal
Information Processing Standard (FIPS) compliance