Storage aggregate Commands

The storage aggregate command family manages aggregates. The storage aggregate commands can create new aggregates, add more disks to an aggregate, delete the existing ones, change aggregate status and apply options to an aggregate. Aggregate commands often affect the volumes contained within aggregates.

An aggregate name can contain letters, numbers, and the underscore character(_), but the first character must be a letter or underscore. A maximum of 100 aggregates can be created on each node.

An aggregate may be online, restricted, iron_restricted, or offline. When an aggregate is offline, no read or write access is allowed. When an aggregate is restricted, certain operations are allowed (parity recomputation or RAID reconstruction) but data access is not allowed.

Aggregates can be in combinations of the following raid status:

normal

The aggregate is in a normal state.

copying

The aggregate is currently the target aggregate of an active aggr copy operation.

ironing

A WAFL consistency check is being performed on this aggregate.

degraded

The aggregate contains at least one degraded RAID group that is not being reconstructed.

mirror degraded

The aggregate is a mirrored aggregate, and one of its plexes is offline or resyncing.

growing

Disks are in the process of being added to the aggregate.

initializing

The aggregate is in the process of being initialized.

invalid

The aggregate does not contain any volume and no volume can be added to it. Typically, this happens after an aborted aggregate copy operation.

needs check

A WAFL consistency check needs to be performed on the aggregate.

partial

The aggregate contains at least one disk, however, two or more disks are missing.

reconstruct

At least one RAID group in the aggregate is being reconstructed.

raid0

The aggregate consists of RAID-0 (no parity) RAID groups (V-Series and NetCache only).

raid4

The aggregate consists of RAID-4 RAID groups.

raid_dp

The aggregate consists of RAID-DP (Double Parity) RAID groups.

raid_tec

The aggregate consists of RAID-TEC (Triple Erasure Code) RAID groups.

redirect

A reallocation process optimized the layout of blocks in the aggregate. You cannot clear this status.

wafl inconsistent

The aggregate has been marked corrupted. Please contact technical support if you see an aggregate in this state.