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Requirements for neighborhoods

If you are thinking about using neighborhoods, you need to check to be sure they are supported for your storage array and for the Data ONTAP release running on your V-Series systems. Neighborhood functionality is limited to V-Series systems that use array LUNs and are shown in the Hardware Universe as being supported with neighborhoods.

For... This is supported...
Data ONTAP releases
  • Releases 8.0 and later operating in 7-Mode
  • Data ONTAP releases earlier than 8.x (which support only 7-Mode)

Mixing Data ONTAP releases from different release families is not supported. For example, mixing Data ONTAP release 7.3.x with an 8.x release is not supported.

Storage arrays Storage arrays that the Interoperability Matrix does not indicate are not supported with neighborhoods.
Platforms All platform types. Mixed platform types are supported.
Configurations Any combination of stand-alone systems and HA pairs.

Neighborhoods are not supported for a MetroCluster configuration.

Number of V-Series systems A maximum of six systems.
Number of LUNs and disks supported No more than the limits for the maximum devices in a neighborhood and the neighborhood maximum LUN limit.