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Managing physical storage

You can use Storage Manager to manage physical storage such as local and cloud tiers, storage pools, disks, nodes, events, system alerts, AutoSupport notifications, and jobs.

  • Storage tiers
    You can use Storage Manager to create aggregates to support the different security requirements, backup requirements, performance requirements, and data sharing requirements of your users.
  • External capacity tier
  • Aggregates
    You can use Storage Manager to create aggregates to support the differing security, backup, performance, and data sharing requirements of your users.
  • Disks
    You can use Storage Manager to manage disks.
  • Events
    You can use Storage Manager to view the event log and event notifications.
  • System alerts
    You can use Storage Manager to monitor different parts of a cluster.
  • AutoSupport notifications
    You can use Storage Manager to configure AutoSupport notifications that help you to monitor your storage system health.
  • Jobs
    You can use Storage Manager to manage job tasks such as displaying job information and monitoring the progress of a job.