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 a cloud tier to the SSD aggregate.
Before you begin
- You must have created a cloud tier and attached it to
the cluster in which the SSD aggregate resides.
- An on-premises cloud tier must have been created.
- A dedicated network connection must exist between the cloud tier and the aggregate.
About this task
- The supported cloud tiers are StorageGRID, Amazon AWS S3, AWS Commercial Cloud Service (C2S), IBM Cloud, 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 a cloud tier, you must have the FabricPool capacity license.
- FabricPool-enabled aggregates are not supported on MetroCluster configurations.
Procedure
- Create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate by using one of the following methods:
- Enable the Manually Create Aggregate option to create an aggregate.
- To create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate:
- 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.
- 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.
Shared disks support two RAID types: RAID-DP and RAID-TEC.
- Click Save.
- Select the FabricPool checkbox, and then select a cloud tier from the list.
- Click Create.