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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Adjust file system capacity in workload factory

Contributors netapp-rlithman

Manually adjust the solid-state drive (SSD) storage capacity of an FSx for ONTAP file system to meet the needs of your project-based workloads with varying active working sets.

Increase the SSD storage capacity of an FSx for ONTAP file system when the amount of used SSD storage capacity exceeds a threshold that you specify or decrease the SSD storage capacity when working sets are inactive to improve cost efficiency.

Alternatively, you can enable the automatic capacity management feature so workload factory manages file system capacity for you.

Note Decreasing SSD storage capacity is only supported for second-generation file systems.
About this task

With elastic file system capacity, you can dynamically adjust the capacity of your file systems to match the needs of your workloads.

Adjusting file system capacity impacts IOPS for your FSx for ONTAP file system.

When you automatically provision IOPS for a file system, IOPS increases or decreases by 3 IOPS with every 1 GiB increase or decrease in SSD capacity.

When you provision IOPS manually, you might need to increase your IOPS allocation to support the increased file system capacity.

For SSD storage capacity limits, refer to Quotas in AWS FSx for NetApp ONTAP documentation.

Before you begin

To adjust capacity for a file system, you must first disable automatic capacity management.

Steps
  1. Log in using one of the console experiences.

  2. In Storage, select Go to Storage inventory.

  3. From the Dashboard, select Adjust SSD capacity.

  4. Select the file system you want to adjust capacity for and then select Continue.

    Potential savings is the recommendation for decreasing capacity.

  5. In the Adjust SSD capacity dialog, enter a number for Provisioned capacity.

  6. Select the unit for the provisioned capacity.

  7. Select Apply.