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If an ONTAP volume is scanned with virus scan does it scan tiered data and will it move back tiered data from object store to the performance tier

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Vscan
  • CIFS/SMB
  • NFS

Answer

  • Yes, you can scan tiered data with the ONTAP vscan.
  • When using the Auto volume tiering policy, if coldblocks are read sequentially, they stay cold and remain on the cloud tier and will not move to the perfomance tier.

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