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Provisioning cache through Flash Pool aggregates

You can provision cache by creating a Flash Pool aggregate or convert an existing aggregate to a Flash Pool aggregate by adding SSDs. You can create a new HDD aggregate (if one does not exist already) and add cache through dedicated SSDs or storage pools.



  1. Provisioning cache to aggregates by adding SSDs
    You can use Storage Manager to add storage pools or dedicated SSDs to provision cache by converting an existing non-root HDD aggregate or a root aggregate that does not contain partitioned disks to a Flash Pool aggregate .
  2. Increasing the cache for Flash Pool aggregates by adding SSDs
    You can add SSDs as either storage pools or dedicated SSDs to increase the size of a Flash Pool aggregate by using Storage Manager .
  3. Creating a storage pool
    A storage pool is a collection of SSDs (cache disks). You can use Storage Manager to combine SSDs to create a storage pool, which enables you to share the SSDs and SSD spares between an HA pair for allocation to two or more Flash Pool aggregates at the same time.