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Setting up physical storage

Setting up the physical storage consists of assigning disks to nodes, zeroing the spare disks, and creating aggregates.

  • Assigning disks to nodes
    You can use Storage Manager to assign ownership of an unassigned disk to a specific node to increase the capacity of an aggregate or storage pool.
  • Zeroing spare disks
    You can use Storage Manager to erase all the data and to format the spare disks by writing zeros to the disk. These disks can then be used in new aggregates.
  • Provisioning storage through aggregates
    You can create an aggregate based on storage recommendations or manually depending on your requirement. You can create Flash Pool aggregates, SnapLock aggregates, and a FabricPool-enabled aggregates to provide storage for one or more volumes by using Storage Manager.