You can use System Manager to create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate to attach 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 following object stores can be used as cloud tiers:
- StorageGRID
- Alibaba Cloud (Starting with System Manager 9.6)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) Commercial Cloud Service (C2S)
- Microsoft Azure Blob storage
- IBM Cloud
- Google Cloud
Note: - Azure Stack, which is an on-premises Azure services, is not supported.
- If you want to use any object store as a cloud tier, other than StorageGRID, you must have the FabricPool capacity license.
Steps
- Create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate by using one of the following methods:
- Enable the Manually Create Aggregate option to create an aggregate.
- 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.