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Data ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode Release Notes

These Release Notes describe new features, enhancements, and known issues

for Data ONTAP

8.0.4 7-Mode, as well as additional information about

running this release on specific storage systems.

Note: The terms flexible volumes and FlexVol volumes are used interchangeably

in Data ONTAP documentation.

About the Data ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode release

Data ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode is a General Availability (GA) release in the Data

ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode release family. For more information about Data ONTAP

releases, see the following publication:

IBM System Storage N series Data ONTAP Release Model

For up to date information regarding the latest release of Data ONTAP, refer

to the following publication:

NEWS: Recommended Release for IBM System Storage N series Data ONTAP

The Data ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode release includes support for the 1-TB

PCI-e-attached Flash Cache module that uses Flash Technology, support for

the 3-TB SATA disks, and support for the OpenSSH client version 4.4p1 and

64-bit SNMP object identifiers (OIDs). This release also includes reversion and

Data ONTAP downgrade support.

The Data ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode release also includes the ability to block data

traffic on the e0M interface. New storage systems that are shipped with Data

ONTAP 8.0.4 7-Mode will have reduced reserve values for root aggregates

and root volume Snapshot copies.

This release also includes additional enhancements to command-line

executables, new cautions, update to known limitations, and documentation

enhancements.

For a complete description of these and other new features, see “New and

changed features” on page 17.

IBM N Series User Manual

Other manuals for IBM N Series