Self-encrypting drives automatically encrypt all data written to disk using hardware-based encryption. When a drive is repurposed, returned, misplaced, or stolen, the data cannot be read without the encryption keys, ensuring the data in the local tier remains protected.

IPspaces provide separate network routing tables within ONTAP, allowing identical or overlapping IP address ranges to be used simultaneously. This enables client access to data even when duplicate IP addresses exist.

iSCSI is a SAN protocol designed to run over standard Ethernet networks. It allows block storage access using TCP/IP, making it suitable for SAN deployments that use Ethernet switches.

Flash Pool combines SSDs and HDDs within the same aggregate, using SSDs as a cache layer to accelerate reads and writes while HDDs provide capacity storage.