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Add local tiers manually in ONTAP

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If you do not want to add a local tier using the best-practice recommendations from ONTAP, you can perform the process manually.

Note Prior to ONTAP 9.7, System Manager uses the term aggregate to describe a local tier. Regardless of your ONTAP version, the ONTAP CLI uses the term aggregate. To learn more about local tiers, see Disks and local tiers.
Before you begin

Disks must be owned by a node before they can be used in a local tier. If your cluster is not configured to use automatic disk ownership assignment, you must assign ownership manually.

Learn more about the commands described in this procedure in the ONTAP command reference.

System Manager

Beginning with ONTAP 9.11.1, if you do not want to use the configuration recommended by System Manager to create a local tier, you can specify the configuration you want.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, click Storage > Tiers.

  2. From the Tiers page, click Add local tier icon to create a new local tier:

    The Add Local Tier page shows the recommended number of local tiers that can be created on the nodes and the usable storage available.

  3. When System Manager displays the storage recommendation for the local tier, click Switch to Manual Local Tier Creation in the Spare Disks section.

    The Add Local Tier page displays fields that you use to configure the local tier.

  4. In the first section of the Add Local Tier page, complete the following:

    1. Enter the name of the local tier.

    2. (Optional): Check the Mirror this local tier check box if you want to mirror the local tier.

    3. Select a disk type.

    4. Select the number of disks.

  5. In the RAID Configuration section, complete the following:

    1. Select the RAID type.

    2. Select the RAID group size.

    3. Click RAID allocation to view how the disks are allocated in the group.

  6. (Optional): If the Onboard Key Manager has been installed, you can configure it for encryption in the Encryption section of the page. Check the Configure Onboard Key Manager for encryption check box.

    1. Enter a passphrase.

    2. Enter the passphrase again to confirm it.

    3. Save the passphrase for future use in case the system needs to be recovered.

    4. Back up the key database for future use.

  7. Click Save to create the local tier and add it to your storage solution.

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