Starting with Ontap 9.9, I noticed that all Ontap versions are launched with this name format : 9.x.y (instead of 9.x as in 9.8). Is there a known reason for this third digit? Always they are .0 or .1 (never seen .2)
#What's the difference between 9.x.0 and 9.x.1 Ontap releases?
near cosmos
gusty tinsel
.0 is the cloud release, .1 is the HW release.
red flax
Almost:
.0 is cloud-only, the .1 releases are for both cloud and on-prem systems
twin vortex
...are you sure .0 releases don't work on physical hardware? 😉
strange reef
I"m not sure but I believe it can work on physical HW.
But .0 releases are for Cloud mainly. IDK why they have two different release classes.
red flax
As I understand it: The versions 0 --> 1 --> 0 --> 1 --> ... get released every quarter.
The idea was to have more frequent releases for the cloud variants of ONTAP to get new features to market earlier.
For on-prem systems only the "1" releases are supported, so every half a year, because more QA is needed/expected.
If I remember correctly the latest "0" releases mostly only introduced new features in System Manager.
strange reef
Yeah the change log for the .0 releases is a lot smaller than .1.