How many data-serving SVMs are supported with Cloud Volumes ONTAP that is running ONTAP 9.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP running ONTAP 9.5 supports one data-serving SVM. This is a cloud platform limitation that differs from many on-premises ONTAP clusters, where multiple data SVMs are common for multi-tenancy and protocol separation. The large values 128 and 1024 reflect broader ONTAP scaling concepts and are not applicable to Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.5. Ten is also not the supported limit for the specified release. In support work, CVO limits must be checked against the specific ONTAP version and cloud deployment model because cloud instances have constraints based on licensing, architecture, and supported configurations. The question's wording is precise: it asks for data-serving SVMs, not management SVMs or cluster-level objects. Therefore, for ONTAP 9.5 on Cloud Volumes ONTAP, the correct limit is one. References/topics: Cloud Volumes ONTAP 9.5 limitations, data-serving SVM support, cloud deployment constraints, and CVO architecture.