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 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.

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.
    Shared disks support two RAID types: RAID-DP and RAID-TEC.
  3. Click Save.
Select the FabricPool checkbox, and then select a cloud tier from the list.
Click Create.