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FlexGroup volumes management overview with the CLI

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You can set up, manage, and protect FlexGroup volumes for scalability and performance. A FlexGroup volume is a scale-out volume that provides high performance along with automatic load distribution.

You can configure FlexGroup volumes if the following are true:

  • You are running ONTAP 9.1 or later.

  • You want to use best practices, not explore every available option.

  • You have cluster administrator privileges, not SVM administrator privileges.

Note Beginning with ONTAP 9.5, FlexGroups replace Infinite Volumes, which are not supported in ONTAP 9.5 or later releases.

See the supported and unsupported configurations for FlexGroup volumes for more information.

Related information

Conceptual information about FlexVol volumes is applicable to FlexGroup volumes. Information about FlexVol volumes and ONTAP technology is available in the ONTAP Reference Library and in Technical Reports (TRs).