In previous posts I wrote about AFF and ADPv2 with 12 SSD disks, you can find these two entries here and here
With AFF product family ADPv2 supports slicing up to 48 SSD disks. Let’s investigate larger setups, starting with 24 SSD disk setups.
Continue reading “NetApp AFF and Advanced Drive Partition v2, part 3”
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.
Continue reading “NetApp AFF and Advanced Drive Partition v2, part 1”
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