It’s that time of year again, time for an ONTAP release…or at least an announcement. When 9.3 drops, not only will it be an LTS (Long Term Support) version, but NetApp continues to refine and enhance ONTAP.
Simplifying operations:
- Application-Aware, data management for MongoDB
- Adaptive QoS
- Guide cluster setup and expansion
- simplified data protection setup, much simpler.
Efficiencies:
Not so long ago, in ONTAP 9.2, NetApp introduced inline, aggregate-level dedupe. What many people may not have realized, due to the nature of way ONTAP coalesces writes in NVRAM prior to flushing them to the durable layer is that this inline aggregate dedupe’s domain was restricted to the data in the NVRAM. With 9.3, a post-process aggregate scanner has been implemented to provide true, aggregate-level dedupe.