ONTAP 9.1 is now generally available (GA)!

Back in October, ONTAP 9.1 RC1 was released. Tons of new features were added, which I covered in ONTAP 9.1 RC1 is now available!

Some of the major features included:

• Tons of brand new platforms
• NetApp FlexGroup (Generally available!) with Unified Manager and Performance Manager support! (9.1 RC2 brought SMB support) Check out the official NetApp blog on FlexGroup volumes here: https://newsroom.netapp.com/blogs/netapp-flexgroup-volumes-an-evolution-of-nas/
• NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE)
• SnapMirror to AltaVault/cloud
• 12 node SAN clusters
• Native Foreign LUN Import with AFF support (no PVR needed!)
• System Manager improvements (FlexGroup GUI, storage efficiency reporting, new cluster setup workflow)
• SAP HANA support for AFF templates
• Azure support for ONTAP cloud
• Trusted Platform Module
• 32GB FC
• SMB 3.1.1 AES-128-GCM encryption (~1.7 times faster than CCM in ONTAP 9.0!)
• 40GB Ethernet

Now, ONTAP 9.1 is officially GA. For information on what GA means:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/products/ontap_releasemodel/

You can find it here:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/ontap/9.1

Also, check out the documentation center:

docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp

Happy upgrading!

If you’re interested in building your own ONTAP 9.x simulator, check out:

http://www.flackbox.com/netapp-simulator/