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Provisioning storage by creating a FabricPool-enabled aggregate manually

You can use Storage Manager to create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate manually or to convert an existing SSD aggregate to a FabricPool-enabled aggregate by attaching a cloud tier to the SSD aggregate.

Before you begin

  • You must have created a cloud tier and attached it to the cluster in which the SSD aggregate resides.

  • An on-premises cloud tier must have been created.

  • A dedicated network connection must exist between the cloud tier and the aggregate.

About this task

  • The supported cloud tiers are StorageGRID, Amazon AWS S3, AWS Commercial Cloud Service (C2S), IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure Blob storage.

    Note

    • Azure Stack, which is an on-premises Azure services, is not supported.

    • If you want to use Amazon AWS S3 or Microsoft Azure Blob storage as a cloud tier, you must have the FabricPool capacity license.

  • FabricPool-enabled aggregates are not supported on MetroCluster configurations.

  1. Create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate by using one of the following methods:
    • Click Applications & Tiers > Storage Tiers > Add Aggregate .
    • Click Storage > Aggregate & Disks > Aggregates > Create .
  2. Enable the Manually Create Aggregate option to create an aggregate.
  3. To create a FabricPool-enabled aggregate:
    1. Specify the name of the aggregate, the disk type, and the number of disks or partitions to include in the aggregate.

      Note
      Only all flash (all SSD) aggregates support FabricPool-enabled aggregates.

      The minimum hot spare rule is applied to the disk group that has the largest disk size.

    2. Optional: Modify the RAID configuration of the aggregate:

      1. Click Change .

      2. In the Change RAID Configuration dialog box, specify the RAID type and the RAID group size. Shared disks support two RAID types: RAID-DP and RAID-TEC.

      3. Click Save .

  4. Select the FabricPool checkbox, and then select a cloud tier from the list.
  5. Click Create .