Object storage enhancements
- S3 object storage support
Data protection enhancements
- Data at rest encryption by default
- SnapMirror Synchronous enhancements
File access protocol enhancements
- Keytab files for SVM authentication with Active Directory (AD) servers
- Encryption and signing performance improvements
Hardware support updates
- Hot-adding 12Gb SAS shelves to 6Gb SAS storage stacks
- FAS8300
- FAS8700
- AFF A400
- ASA AFF A220
- ASA AFF A700
Manageability enhancements
- ONTAP System Manager is the next generation in ONTAP simplicity
MetroCluster configuration enhancements
- MetroCluster FC configuration platform support
- ONTAP Mediator is supported in MetroCluster IP configurations
- FabricPool mirrors on MetroCluster configurations
- MetroCluster compliant switches
- AFF A320 platform is supported on Broadcom switches
Networking and security protocol enhancements
- Caching for NIS netgroup-by-host searches
SAN enhancements
- Symmetric Active-Active host access
- Support for large I/O
Storage resource management enhancements
- Throughput flooring enhancements
- FlexVol volumes limit
- FlexCache volumes enhancements
- FlexGroup volumes enhancements
- QoS floors
- FabricPool mirror
- FabricPool mirrors on MetroCluster configurations
- Non transparent HTTP and HTTPS proxy
Transition enhancements
- 7-Mode Transition Tool
- Transition data protection relationships
Upgrade enhancements
- Upgrade from ONTAP 9.3 directly to 9.7
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