You can use System Manager to create a FabricPool or to convert an existing SSD aggregate to a FabricPool by attaching an external capacity tier to the SSD aggregate.
Before you begin
- You must have created an external capacity tier and attached it to
the cluster in which the SSD aggregate resides.
- An on-premises external capacity tier must be present.
- A dedicated network connection must exist between the external capacity tier and the aggregate.
About this task
Supported external capacity tiers are
StorageGRID Webscale and Amazon AWS S3.
Note: If you want to use Amazon AWS S3 as an external capacity tier, you must have the FabricPool capacity license.
- FabricPool is not supported on ONTAP Select and MetroCluster configurations.
Procedure
- Choose one of the following methods:
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Click Create.
- In the Create Aggregate dialog box, perform the following steps:
- Specify the name of the aggregate, the disk type, and the number of disks or partitions to include in the aggregate.
Note: Only all flash (all SSD) aggregates support FabricPool.
The minimum hot spare rule is applied to the disk group that has the largest disk size.
- Optional: Modify the RAID configuration of the aggregate:
- Click Change.
- In the Change RAID Configuration dialog box, specify the RAID type and the RAID group size.
RAID-DP is the only supported RAID type for shared disks.
- Click Save.
- Select the FabricPool box, and then select an external capacity tier from the list.
- Click Create.