In previous part 1 I wrote about NetApp AFF and ADP with smaller 400 GB SSD drives. This time I will concentrate on ADPv2 with larger SSD drives (3,8TB). As a reminder, with ADPv2 you can deploy 12 SSD disk setups while still having two data aggregates and two controllers serving data and thus getting better performance. So ADPv2 with 12 SSD drives is beneficial also with larger SSD drives.
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NetApp has announced new version of their storage operating system, Ontap 9. One of the improved features is Advanced Drive Partition V2 (ADPv2).
With ADP you can slice SDDs or HDDs into two partitions, one for root aggregates and one for data aggregates. This means that you don’t have to reserve separate drives for root aggregates, instead you can use a small “slice” of disk for root aggregate and use remaining “slice” for data aggregates. By using ADP the overhead related to root aggregates is smaller and you will get more usable space for data.
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