New And Changed Platform And Hardware Support; Support For 1-Tb Flash Cache Modules; Support For N6200 Series Storage Systems - IBM N Series Manual

New and changed platform and hardware support

This Data ONTAP release supports new and changed hardware as listed and
provides an overview of the new and changed hardware.
For information about supported systems, see "Supported systems" on page
61.
v "Support for 1-TB Flash Cache modules"
v "Support for N6200 series storage systems"
v "Support for the N7x50T series storage systems" on page 20
v "Support for 512-GB and 256-GB Performance Acceleration Module (PAM
II)" on page 21
v "Support for SSDs" on page 21
v "Supported tape drives" on page 21
v "Support for 3-TB SATA disks" on page 21
v "Support for 2-TB SATA disks" on page 21

Support for 1-TB Flash Cache modules

Data ONTAP 8.0.2 and later releases support the 1-TB PCIe-attached Flash
Cache module that uses Flash technology.
The addition of Flash Cache optimizes the performance of random
read-intensive workloads such as file services, messaging, virtual
infrastructure, and OLTP databases without using more high-performance
disk drives.
For more information about Flash Cache modules supported with your
storage system models, see the IBM System Storage N series Introduction and
Planning Guide.

Support for N6200 series storage systems

Data ONTAP 8.0.1 and later releases support the N6200 series storage system.
The N6200 series storage systems support the following features:
v One or two controllers in a chassis
One-controller systems can be configured with a filler blank or an I/O
expansion module, which provides four full-length PCIe slots.
v Two Gigabit Ethernet ports per controller
v Two HA ports per controller
v Two 3-Gb or 6-Gb SAS ports per controller
v Two 4-Gb Fibre Channel ports per controller
v One USB port per controller
v One private management (ACP) port per controller
New and changed features
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