Cluster Data ONTAP 8.2

I'm very excited to announce that Cluster Data ONTAP 8.2 RC1 is out.

Below are the key feature:

• Asynchronous mirroring between clusters
• Transparent node failover
• Fully integrated management system
• Balanced scalable performance
• Scale nondisruptively from small to huge
• Scalable up to 24 nodes in a single NAS system
• Scalable to 4 (clustered Data ONTAP 8.1), 6 (clustered Data ONTAP 8.1.1), or 8 (clustered Data ONTAP 8.2) nodes in a SAN-enabled system
• Single system to manage
• Intelligent caching with Flash Cache™ or Flash Pool™, depending on requirements
• No client code required: uses standard NFS and CIFS clients and MPIO/ALUA for SAN
• Highly reliable: built for nondisruptive operation
• WAFL file system, RAID-DP technology, active-active high-availability (HA) controllers
• Storage efficiencies including thin provisioning, deduplication, and compression FlexClone volumes
• Qtrees for quotas
• Snapshot technology, asynchronous mirroring, NDMP
• Most practical blend of new and mature technologies

What is new in clustered Data ONTAP 8.2

• Volume-level, storage-efficient SnapVault® D2D backup
• Quality of service (QoS) workload management
• Quota management and file auditing using FPolicy®
• CIFS features such as ABE, local users and groups, SMB signing, SMB 3, and BranchCache
• More volumes per controller and larger aggregates
• Larger SAN clusters and support for more LUNs
• Single-node and switchless 2-node clusters
• Encryption of data at rest (NSE - NetApp Storage Encyption)
• Online controller hardware upgrade while keeping data in place
• On-cluster FlexCache® for NAS volumes
• More NetApp Infinite Volume capabilities and use cases
• IPv6 for protocols and SNMP
• SMB 3.0 and Hyper-V integration

I will have detailed information on some of significant updates to Data ONTAP 8.2.  I want to demo Quality of service (QoS) workload management.  You create policy groups to isolate workloads.  These groups can contain one or more storage object such as VServer, Volumes and LUNs.  This allows you to set limits on IOPS or MB/s.