Issue The default behavior of ONTAP on AFF and ASA systems is to partition up to 24 SSDs per node (48 SSDs per HA pair) when the system is first initialized. ONTAP has historically partitioned spare S...Issue The default behavior of ONTAP on AFF and ASA systems is to partition up to 24 SSDs per node (48 SSDs per HA pair) when the system is first initialized. ONTAP has historically partitioned spare SSDs when needed for storage expansion or RAID reconstruction. There should be a configuration option in ONTAP to always partition spare SSDs on AFF systems after system initialization.