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Managing storage tiers by using FabricPool

Storing data in tiers can enhance the efficiency of your storage system. Beginning with ONTAP 9.5, you can manage storage tiers by using FabricPool. It enables you to store data in a tier, based on whether the data is frequently accessed.

  • Benefits of storage tiers by using FabricPool
    Configuring an aggregate to use FabricPool enables you to use storage tiers. You can efficiently balance the performance and cost of your storage system, monitor and optimize the space utilization, and perform policy-based data movement between storage tiers.
  • Considerations and requirements for using FabricPool
    You should familiarize yourself with a few considerations and requirements about using FabricPool.
  • Understanding FabricPool tiering policies
    FabricPool tiering policies enable you to move data efficiently across tiers as data becomes hot or cold. Understanding the tiering policies helps you select the right policy that suits your storage management needs.
  • FabricPool management workflow
    You can use the FabricPool workflow diagram to help you plan the configuration and management tasks.
  • Configuring FabricPool
    Configuring FabricPool helps you manage which storage tier (the local performance tier or the cloud tier) data should be stored based on whether the data is frequently accessed.
  • 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.
  • Managing FabricPool mirrors
    To ensure data is accessible in data stores in the event of a disaster, and to enable you to replace a data store, you can configure a FabricPool mirror by adding a second data store to synchronously tier data to two data stores . You can add a second data store to new or existing FabricPool configurations, monitor the mirror status, display FabricPool mirror details, promote a mirror, and remove a mirror. You must be running ONTAP 9.7 or later.
  • Commands for managing aggregates with FabricPool
    You use the storage aggregate object-store commands to manage object stores for FabricPool. You use the storage aggregate commands to manage aggregates for FabricPool. You use the volume commands to manage volumes for FabricPool.