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What are the restrictions with FlexGroup volumes and NAE?

What are the restrictions with FlexGroup volumes and NAE?

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Applies to

ONTAP 9
NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup
NetApp Volume Encryption (NVE)
NetApp Aggregate Encryption (NAE)

Answer

The following restrictions are for FG create, rekey/conversion, and expand:

FG create

Encrypted volume create operation will be allowed only if all the destination aggrs are of same encryption-type (NAE or non-NAE), Mix is not allowed.
Plain-text FG volume create is not allowed on NAE-aggrs.
NVE volume can be created on mix of NAE aggr and non-NAE.
If “-encrypt true” is specified, then all the constituent volumes will be of type NVE. Destination aggrs can be of mix of NAE aggr and non-NAE.
“-encrypt false” is not supported.
If nothing is specified, then it wil create NAE volumes on desitnation NAE aggrs.

FG rekey/conversion

If any of the constituent volume is of NAE type, then inplace rekey/conversion is not allowed. The constituent volumes of NAE type have to be converted to the volume type of NVE rest through vol-move. Only then rekey/conversion is allowed.

FG expand

Adding more members to the existing FG(NAE aggr) is allowed only if new dest aggregate is NAE. It will fail if new dest aggr is non-NAE.

Additional Information

FAQ: NetApp Volume Encryption and NetApp Aggregate Encryption