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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.

  • Creating a volume for FabricPool
    When you create a volume for FabricPool, you have the option to specify a tiering policy. If no tiering policy is specified, the created volume uses the default snapshot-only tiering policy. For a volume with the snapshot-only or auto tiering policy, you can also specify the tiering minimum cooling period.
  • Moving a volume to FabricPool
    When you move a volume to FabricPool, you have the option to specify or change the tiering policy for the volume with the move. Starting in ONTAP 9.8, when you move a non-FabricPool volumes with inactive data reporting enabled, FabricPool uses a heat map to read tierable blocks, and moves cold data to the capacity tier on the FabricPool destination.