Provisioning storage by creating a FabricPool-enabled aggregate manually

You can use System Manager to create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate manually or to convert an existing SSD aggregate to a FabricPool-enabled aggregate by attaching an external capacity tier to the SSD aggregate.

Before you begin

You must have created an external capacity tier and attached the external capacity tier to the cluster in which the SSD aggregate resides.
An on-premises external capacity tier must have been created.
A dedicated network connection must exist between the external capacity tier and the aggregate.

About this task

The supported external capacity tiers are StorageGRID, Amazon AWS S3, and Microsoft Azure Blob storage.
Note:
- Azure Stack, which is an on-premises Azure services, is not supported.
- If you want to use Amazon AWS S3 or Microsoft Azure Blob storage as an external capacity tier, you must have the FabricPool capacity license.
FabricPool-enabled aggregates are not supported on MetroCluster configurations.

Steps

Create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate by using one of the following methods:
- Click Applications & Tiers > Storage Tiers > Add Aggregate.
- Click Storage > Aggregate & Disks > Aggregates > Create.
Enable the Manually Create Aggregate option to create an aggregate.
To create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate:
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-enabled aggregates.
  
  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 checkbox, and then select an external capacity tier from the list.
Click Create.