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Version: DPX Compatibility 4.16

NetApp Support

Catalogic DPX supports NetApp storage systems, running Data ONTAP.

Data ONTAP VersionsNetApp SoftwareSupported AgentsRequirements
9.17, 9.16.1, 9.15, 9.12, 9.11, 9.10, 9.9, 9.8, 9.7, 9.6, 9.5, 9.4, 9.3, 9.2, 9.1, 9.0 ⁸; 8.3.0 or later, 8.2.3 or later ¹Clustered Data ONTAP (CDOT)• Catalogic DPX Agentless ⁹
• Catalogic DPX Agent for Windows ⁶
• Catalogic DPX Agent for Linux ⁷ ⁹
• FlexClone license is required
• iSCSI license is required
• NFS license is required only for DPX Agent for Windows
8.2.0 or later, 8.1.0 or later, 8.0.1 or later ¹ ² ³Data ONTAP 7-mode• Catalogic DPX Agentless ⁵ ⁹
• Catalogic DPX Agent for Microsoft Windows and Linux ⁹
• NetApp OSSV Agent for Oracle Solaris and IBM AIX ⁴
• Data ONTAP SnapVault Primary to Secondary (controller to controller) ⁴
• SnapVault Secondary license is required
• FlexClone license is required
• iSCSI license is required

¹ Compression is supported for Data ONTAP 8.0.1P4 or later; NetApp’s Advanced Single Instance Storage (A-SIS) deduplication is supported for Data ONTAP 8.0.1 or later.
² NetApp ONTAP Edge-T is supported as a data protection target.
³ vFiler use (MultiStore licensing) for NDMP and Block backup is only supported for Data ONTAP 8.2.1 and later.
⁴ SnapVault support is limited to 7-mode. SnapVault backup between 7-mode and Clustered Data ONTAP is not supported.
⁵ DPX Agentless supports Data ONTAP 8.1 and later.
⁶ Backup of Oracle on Windows to a NetApp CDOT target is not supported.
⁷ Uses iSCSI transport protocol. Support for remote locations is limited.
⁸ Supported with compatibility mode only. DPX does not support new features specifically introduced in the ONTAP 9.x release.
⁹ BMR recovery for machines using GPT disk is now supported for Linux. Instant Virtualization and Full Virtualization for machines using GPT disk are now supported for Linux.

NDMP Backup Support

All NetApp-supported versions of Data ONTAP are supported for NDMP Backup. SMTAPE incremental is not supported.

NAS devices from other vendors that fully support NDMP v3 or v4 are also supported for NDMP backups, including, but not limited to, Dell EMC Storage Platforms PowerScale (Isilon), PowerMax, and PowerStore systems.