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Managing FabricPool

To help you with your storage tiering needs, ONTAP enables you to display how much data in a volume is inactive, add or move volumes to FabricPool, monitor the space utilization for FabricPool, or modify a volume’s tiering policy or tiering minimum cooling period.

  • Determining how much data in a volume is inactive by using inactive data reporting
    Seeing how much data in a volume is inactive enables you to make good use of storage tiers. Information in inactive data reporting helps you decide which aggregate to use for FabricPool, whether to move a volume in to or out of FabricPool, or whether to modify the tiering policy of a volume.
  • Adding or moving volumes to FabricPool as needed
    You can add volumes to FabricPool by creating new volumes directly in the FabricPool-enabled aggregate or by moving existing volumes from another aggregate to the FabricPool-enabled aggregate.
  • Object tagging using user-created custom tags
    Starting in ONTAP 9.8, FabricPool supports object tagging using user-created custom tags to enable you to classify and sort objects for easier management. If you are a user with the admin privilege level, you can create new object tags, and modify, delete, and view existing tags.
  • Monitoring the space utilization for FabricPool
    You need to know how much data is stored in the performance and cloud tiers for FabricPool. That information helps you determine whether you need to change the tiering policy of a volume, increase the FabricPool licensed usage limit, or increase the storage space of the cloud tier.
  • Managing storage tiering by modifying a volume's tiering policy or tiering minimum cooling period
    You can change the tiering policy of a volume to control whether data is moved to the cloud tier when it becomes inactive (cold). For a volume with the snapshot-only or auto tiering policy, you can also specify the tiering minimum cooling period that user data must remain inactive before it is moved to the cloud tier.
  • Using cloud migration controls to override a volume's default tiering policy
    You can change a volume's default tiering policy for controlling user data retrieval from the cloud tier to performance tier by using the -cloud-retrieval-policy option introduced in ONTAP 9.8.
  • Promoting data to the performance tier
    Starting in ONTAP 9.8, if you are a cluster administrator at the advanced privilege level, you can promote data to the performance tier from the cloud tier using a combination of the tiering-policy and the cloud-retrieval-policy setting.