fierce river
Hello folks,
I am trying to find out if Ontap ( 9.13.x) supports for block :
- Hardware Acceleration (VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration) aka VAAI
- Native vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA) >= version 4.0 - Via ontap tools for vmware
- QOS exposed through VASA
- Virtual Volumes support (vVols) v2.0 with replication
- Storage Containers support for vVols
- RBAC for multi-tenancy
- Multipathing support: vmware NMP & vmware HPP
I know VAAI is supported for NFS via a plugin , same as VASA via netapp ontap tools for vmware ( that is a plugin similar to VASA old one ) but there is no statement on IMT about block protocols.
Also VASA is supported but there is no level stated ; We do have vvols support but no level stated also here (https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/netapp-solutions/virtualization/vvols-overview.html#why-vvols-for-vsphere) i do have an Netapp HCI and utilize vvols on Element OS but did not use so far VVols on Ontap device.
Fat 7) for NMP i found something at vmware site : https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/detail.php?deviceCategory=san&productid=42756
Also for HPP i found : For ESXi 7.0 and later releases, HPP (high performance plugin) is the default plugin for NVMe devices.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-sanhost/nvme_esxi_7.html#supportability
tawdry spire