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ONTAP 9.12.1 Technical Overview_netapp_tech
- 1. © 2023 NetApp,Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — ONTAP 9.12.1 technical overview January 2023
- 2. FAS 26xx andAFF A200 removed from 9.12.1 support ONTAP 9.12.1 supported systems • NetApp® AFF systems – A-Series: A220; A250; A300; A320; A400; A700; A700s; A800; A900 – C-Series: C190 • NetApp AFF All SAN Array (ASA) systems – A-Series: A220; A250; A400; A700; A800; • FAS systems – FAS500f – FAS2720; FAS2750 – FAS8200; FAS8300; FAS8700; FAS9000; FAS9500 © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 2
- 3. SnapLock support forSnapshot copies ONTAP security hardening LockVault for FlexGroup Security and compliance © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 3
- 4. • By leveragingNetApp® SnapLock® technology, NetApp Snapshot™ copies are now protected from deletion by compromised administrator credentials or an internal rogue administrator attack • Snapshot copies can’t be deleted or changed, even by NetApp support • Enables rapid recovery in the event of data damage by providing an immutable recovery point on the primary data source • Protection applies to Snapshot copies on both the primary and secondary systems • Volumes or local tiers with tamperproof Snapshot copies can’t be deleted Rapidly create tamperproof recovery points Tamperproof Snapshot copies using Snapshot copy locking Tamperproof Snapshot copies protect against cybersecurity threats © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 4
- 5. • NetApp® FPolicy isincluded with every NetApp ONTAP® system and offers defense against common ransomware attacks • Known malicious files can be blocked from ONTAP NAS exports • ONTAP System Manager and NetApp BlueXP now offer simple enablement of this feature that blocks a predefined list of 3,000 common ransomware file extensions Block common ransomware file types with a simple wizard Easy FPolicy configuration for ransomware defense System Manager BlueXP © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 5
- 6. • With NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1,the autonomous ransomware protection (ARP) training profile is transferred as part of the NetApp SnapMirror® replication • In the event of a disaster recovery (DR) failover, ARP can immediately be reenabled without a learning period, ensuring data stays protected No need to retrain your ARP in the event of a DR failover event Autonomous ransomware protection – Portable training for immediate protection Primary data volume ARP training data Secondary data volume ARP training data SnapMirror © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 6
- 7. Protect data containedin a NetApp® ONTAP® FlexGroup volume from compromised administrator credentials, rogue administrators, or human error by creating an immutable and indelible secondary copy Protect FlexGroup data with remote indelible copies FlexGroup support for LockVault Primary FlexGroup NetApp SnapLock® FlexGroup NetApp SnapMirror® © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 7
- 8. • Log andaudit all administrator actions regardless of origin, guaranteeing that all actions affecting data are captured • Enhancements to multifactor authentication (MFA) for SSH to further safeguard access to the CLI • Support FIDO2 with YubiKey • Support for Cisco DUO as an identity provider Additional security hardening for enhanced protection © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 8
- 9. Multiprotocol file andobject FlexCache writeback SVM mobility for AFF and FAS Deployment flexibility © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 9
- 10. • Concurrently accessstorage as files or as objects from the same data source • Gain new insights into your data with Simple Storage Service (S3) powered analytics • Simplify complex data workflows by enabling applications that use different access protocols to share data • Accelerate your hybrid cloud journey by opening data access Unlock the potential of data stored in NAS volumes with native S3 access File-object multiprotocol (file-object duality) © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 10
- 11. Increase write performancefor remote and distributed workloads FlexCache writeback – Write performance Reads and writes Remote client • NetApp® FlexCache® is a sparse writable cache of a volume that moves data closer to clients and applications • NetApp ONTAP® 9.12.1 adds the ability for clients to write locally to FlexCache volumes (writeback), reducing latency and improving performance • Newly written data is then replicated asynchronously back to the origin volume • FlexCache must be connected to the origin for normal operation and availability *Intent is for feature to be Generally Available in a future release of ONTAP 9.12.1; refer to ONTAP release notes for details Public preview in ONTAP 9.12.1* New! Origin FlexCache NetApp AFF, FAS, ONTAP Select, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP AFF, FAS, ONTAP Select, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, FSx for ONTAP © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 11
- 12. Migrate NAS workloadsnondisruptively between clusters within a data center Data mobility for SVMs – Your data, untethered Cluster A Cluster B SVM1 SVM2 Data reshuffling Tech refreshes Workload balancing • Nondisruptively migrate storage virtual machines (SVMs) without administrative overhead to break the relationship • Movement between NetApp AFF and FAS clusters • Support for SMB* No disruption to existing mounts SVM2 New in NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 * SMB mounts will drop briefly when SVM migrates. © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 12
- 13. • FlexGroup rebalance •12-node NVMe cluster support • NFS v4 session trunking • 30,000 volume cluster limit ONTAP for high-performance workloads © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 13
- 14. Restore optimal performancewith FlexGroup rebalance • Redistribute files across all member volumes of the FlexGroup volume • Transparent and nondisruptive to clients connected to the FlexGroup shares • Simple administration and control from NetApp ONTAP System Manager and NetApp BlueXP • Unequal loading of FlexGroup volume members due to data ingest patterns For optimal performance, distribute data equally across the constituent member volumes FlexGroup rebalance Use cases for NetApp® ONTAP® FlexGroup rebalancing • Expansion of a FlexGroup with new volumes © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 14
- 15. Expanding adoption ofNVMe is driving the demand for larger NVMe clusters • New support for 12-node clusters • 3x increase in capacity and performance • Easier, nondisruptive lifecycle operations Additional NVMe enhancements in NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 • Support for 8,000 subsystems in a single storage virtual machine (SVM) • In-band authentication for NVMe/TCP Support for NVMe enabled clusters up to 12 nodes Scaling NVMeoF clusters NVMe-enabled storage 4 nodes ……. 12 nodes © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 15
- 16. • Session trunkinginvolves multiple connections between the client and the server which share the same session • Trunked connections share the locking state and client ID • Ideal to maximize the data transfer between NetApp® ONTAP® nodes and data-intensive applications, such as AI training • Current implementation only allows LIFs on the same node to be trunked Increase bandwidth for data-hungry AI/ML processing NFS v4 session trunking Data processing host Multi-LIFs Dataset Trunk ONTAP node © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 16
- 17. • Emerging technologiesand cloud-native applications demand seamless scalability • Unstructured data continues to grow at increasing rates, driving the need for increased scale • Containerized applications are driving smaller size volumes, but at larger scale • NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 enables cluster volume limit to scale from 15,000 volumes up to 30,000 volumes per cluster • A minimum of six high-availability (HA) systems required • Existing HA pair volume limits remain unchanged • 2K for FAS • 5K for NetApp AFF Increase cluster volume limit to 30,000 ….. 30,000 Max. number of volumes 15,000 © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 17
- 18. MetroCluster enhancements SnapMirror unification Integrateddata protection © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 18
- 19. In NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 • Front-endhost protocol support for Internet Protocol security (IPsec) • Front-end host protocol support for NVMe/FC on NetApp MetroCluster™ IP • Support for Simple Storage Service (S3) protocol (unmirrored aggregates only) • Transition from MetroCluster FC to MetroCluster IP for NetApp AFF A900 and FAS9500 MetroCluster enhancements Continuous availability for your critical data © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 19
- 20. In NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 • Asynchronous •Replication of tamperproof NetApp Snapshot™ copies • Increased fan-out scale on some models • Enhanced recovery point objective (RPO) during NetApp FlexGroup volume rebalance • SVM-DR support for FlexGroup volumes and FabricPool • Synchronous • Support for nondisruptive operations • Support for quality of service (QoS) ceiling and adaptive QoS • Support for NFS 4.2 sparse files Asynchronous and synchronous enhancements SnapMirror enhancements © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 20
- 21. • NetApp® SnapMirror® Async relationshipsof the type “data protection (DP)” use the legacy replication engine known as Block Replication Engine (BRE) • Logical Replication with Storage Efficiency (LRSE) was introduced in NetApp ONTAP® 9.3; it supports replication of the type “extended data protection (XDP),” which provides everything that DP replication type provides plus the ability to retain extra recovery points on the secondary copy (NetApp SnapVault® ) • ONTAP 9.12.1 will deprecate the BRE engine, simplifying the protection of data with ONTAP • Existing relationships can be upgraded from type DP to XDP nondisruptively • All SnapMirror relationships must be type ”XDP” before upgrading to ONTAP 9.12.1 Unification of SnapMirror for simplicity Deprecation of SnapMirror DP relationships DP XDP CPC announcement: https://mysupport.netapp.com/info/communications/ECMLP2880221.html © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 21
- 22. In NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 • Immutabledata (WORM) to Simple Storage Service (S3) targets • NetApp FlexGroup volume support • Enhanced integration with NetApp MetroCluster™ • Support for backup and recovery from tiered object infrastructure • New NetApp StorageGrid® integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure • New NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud support SnapMirror cloud enhancements © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 22
- 23. NetApp® ONTAP® 9.12.1 enhances NetApp SnapMirror® Business Continuity (SM-BC) with • Availability improvements in site and link failure scenarios (primary bias) • Quality of service (QoS) ceiling support for sync protected volumes (SM-BC and SM-S) • Multiple enhancements to consistency groups (CGs) Continuous improvements to NetApp granular Tier 0 data protection solution SnapMirror Business Continuity enhancements Primary data center Secondary data center ONTAP Mediator Third site SnapMirror Synchronous <10ms RTT © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 23
- 24. • Create NetApp® FlexClone® ofconsistency group (CG) with current data or from previously created NetApp Snapshot™ copies • Enables recovery testing or creation of DevTest environments • Add volumes to an existing CG • Allows for growth of or modification of an application deployment • Remove volumes from an existing CG • Allows for modification of an application landscape • Tagging of application CGs • Simplify data management and organization by associating a CG with a set of predefined applications Ensuring recoverability for complex application deployments Consistency group enhancements NetApp SnapMirror® Synchronous Enterprise applications Primary CG SVM Mirrored CG Normal Automated failover SVM Unmirrore d volumes Primary data center Secondary data center © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 24
- 25. System Manager enhancements FSAenhancements Ease of use © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 25
- 26. • Identify top25 large directories without navigating • Click directly on results to view the directory • Easily identify and resolve your performance bottlenecks • Downloadable comma-separated values (CSV) report available • Export the entire list and easily share the results with your team NetApp ONTAP File System Analytics large directory identification SVM1 © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 26
- 27. • NetApp® ONTAP® FlexGroup rebalancing •Simple dashboard to determine the level of balance within a FlexGroup volume and easily initiate rebalancing activity • NetApp SnapLock® management • Configure and manage SnapLock volumes and policies • Advanced usability and insight enhancements • LIF creation and placement options • Broadcast domains and subnets management • NetApp Flash Pool management • Storage pool management • View overcommitted space for resource planning • Dark theme • Saving your eyes in low-light environments • Hardware visualization • Cabling diagrams • Controller to disk shelves • NetApp Support site search • Quickly search knowledge base and support articles directly from ONTAP System Manager Seamlessly configure, manage, and monitor your system System Manager enhancements © 2023 NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — 27
- 28. © 2023 NetApp,Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — WAFL reserve reduction Data cost optimization 28
- 29. © 2023 NetApp,Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL — Get 5% more usable storage, just by upgrading! Increased aggregate usable space • WAFL reserve reduced from 10% to 5% • Applies to NetApp® AFF and FAS500f with 9.12.1 or later • For new and existing aggregates that are greater then 30TB in size • No configuration required • Users will see 5% more usable space compared to previous NetApp ONTAP® releases Usable aggr space WAFL reserve 5% 95% 29
- 30. Thank you © 2023NetApp, Inc. All rights reserved. — NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL —
Editor's Notes
- #4 Ability to create an indelible (can't be deleted) Snapshot copy on the primary based on the period of time defined. Response to leveling the playing field with Pure In order for recovery points to be valid, transactional applications will need to be quiesced prior to the creation of the Snapshot copy. Will be CLI and REST API only in 9.12.1, System Manager to be added in a future version. Requires a SnapLock license SnapLocked Snapshot copies can be created on the primary data volumes or can be scheduled on secondary volumes for simple, indelible recovery points. FabricPool-enabled tiers are not supported in the 9.12.1 release. Please note, these are SnapLocked Snapshot copies. There is no means to delete the Snapshot copy prior to the expiration date and thus care needs to be taken when applying the SnapLock policy to the Snapshot copy.
- #7 9.12.1 only delivers LockVault. Legal hold and event-based retention are to be delivered later. In 9.11.1, you could lock a file or folder with SnapLock inside of a FlexGroup. In 9.12, NetApp LockVault allows you to lock an entire volume. Compliance for a specific file versus protection from a rogue administrator. LockVault allows customers to create a Snapshot copy on a FlexGroup volume and replicate that Snapshot copy into a SnapLock volume to be protected with a SnapLock policy. This provides a known good recovery point that is protected from all forms of attack. For example: "I need to snap a datastore once a day and lock that image for 60 days, so I know I at least have 60 days of good recovery points that are indelible even from admins." Pretty important for customers using FlexGroup volumes, but it is overall a minor feature.
- #10 ONTAP 9.12.1 adds support for S3 access to file data at rest. Data can be modified, but S3 constructs such a buckets cannot be created. Data must first be ingested and managed as file data and then accessed as S3 objects. File structure will be flattened and merged into object names. Use cases: Allows the users/applications to do different workflows on the data without duplicating the data. Object analytic services, such as OCR, to recognize the objects in images and videos and then tags those objects and creates metadata on what is actually in those images. Medical imaging recognition with OCR to identify all “chest X-rays or MRIs." Financial – Recognizing checks that are deposited through a phone camera by end users. Some customers are doing this today but are currently doing it by copying the data (Cloud Sync can copy from a file share to an object store) File/object multiprotocol allows them to do this at rest without making a copy way more efficient!
- #12 SVM-DR versus SVM Data Mobility SVM-DR stops and starts somewhere of its choosing, but it causes downtime. SVM Data Mobility moves an SVM from one cluster to the other in the same data center. Allows customers with small number of nodes in a cluster to move clients around without them being aware or scheduling an outage. Ideal for service providers who need to move live SVMs from cluster to cluster in order to maintain SVM performance or to perform lifecycle operations on the ONTAP clusters. An SVM move will cause SMB clients to disconnect and require reconnection, this is similar to the behavior when a controller failover occurs a brief drop in connection and then easy reconnection of the SMB shares. If customers have specific needs for this feature, please submit an FE-FPVR.
- #14 FlexGroup rebalance in valuable to any customer that uses FlexGroup volumes today and wishes to grow the FlexGroup by adding additional volumes and wants the data distributed across all volumes to preserve or increase performance. The nature of how some data is loaded into FlexGroup volumes can also result in unequal loading of FlexGroup volumes; rebalancing can ensure that no volumes fill up and that the FlexGroup volume is equally distributed. Ideal for high-performance file serving environments and large unstructured data sets. Will be able to see the level of balance in System Manager. People that would convert a FlexVol volume to a FlexGroup volume would typically do that because they reach a 100TB limit. This would allow them to add more volumes, but the original volume would still being close to 100TB. Closes a competitive advantage that competition had over FlexGroup volumes.
- #15 Early specs were 4 nodes max. Now supports 12 nodes. 12-node cluster is as big as you can go on any cluster (SAN of any type). NAS only can go up to 24 nodes. I use this as an opportunity to reiterate the fact that we pioneered the NVMe movement and continue to be leaders in this space. NVMe is now being adopted and is growing, which is why we now support much larger clusters. I am now also mentioning that these larger clusters add simplicity where large environments like this would result in multiple different systems for others (Pure) to manage, likely resulting is trapped capacity and performance issues.
- #16 Node scope means that only connections from the same node can share the same session ID and client ID. Spanning node is a future feature with no planned release at this time.
- #17 Big companies are reaching their the limit, so are customers using Kubernetes. Questions you tend to get here are “Are we changing the limit per node so that each of our hardware platforms has a maximum number of volumes per node?” No, you still have to have enough nodes in your cluster to get to 10,000 or to get to 30,000, so that doesn't change. There is no change to the maximum number of volumes per controller or aggregate. The NetApp MetroCluster volume limit remains the same (for now).
- #19 In NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager, this adds a topology view of MetroCluster with drill-downs. Hardware failure alerts and events View MetroCluster configurations Overall health status
- #21 At one point, DP was all that we had. Now most customers have already converted DP to XDP. The NetApp A-team said this should not be an issue at all because, basically, all customers already have XDP. History: Back in time, SnapMirror initially had a replication engine such that whichever Snapshot copies I had on the primary site was exactly what I had on the secondary site. So, if I wanted you know so many hourlies and so many weeklies and so many monthlies, that was exactly what I had both the primary storage and secondary storage, which was great for disaster recovery purposes, but not great for backup or archive operations. Then we produced SnapVault, which was a different replication engine. That allowed us to have different recovery points, so we could have hourlies and dailies on the primary and then weeklies monthlies and yearlies on the secondary. We didn't have to have the same Snapshot copies on the two sites; but again, it used a different replication engine. It used to be a lower performance replication engine than what the mirrored one was, but that's gone away, so performance-wise, they're identical. Because they are identical, we are doing away with the one that does the exact mirror (DP).
- #27 Support features in ONTAP 9.12 Advanced network configuration LIF creation and placement options Advanced aggregate configuration Flash Pool management Storage pool management Network enhancements Broadcast domains and subnets management SnapLock management Configure Set up compliance clock Create SnapLock compliance or SnapLock enterprise volumes Create mirrored relationships for volumes of same SnapLock type 9.7 introduced issues that oversimplified this, adding SnapLock management back into the UI Dark theme Great for people working in low-light environments, such as data centers Hardware visualization A great way to see how the cables are plugged in without physically looking at them.