Provisioning storage by creating a FabricPool

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:
- Click the Storage Tiers tab.
- Click Hardware and Diagnostics > Aggregates.
Click Create.
In the Create Aggregate dialog box, perform the following steps:
1. 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.
2. Optional: Modify the RAID configuration of the aggregate:
  1. Click Change.
  2. 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.
  3. Click Save.
Select the FabricPool box, and then select an external capacity tier from the list.
Click Create.