How to calculate the overhead of storage pool based on the desired capacity when deploy a new ONTAP Select cluster or add capacity to an existed cluster
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- 9/26/2024, 3:08:19 AM
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- ONTAP Select
- VMware Datastores
Description
- When deploy a new ONTAP Select cluster, you must to specify a proper storage pool capacity limit so that you can safely deploy and use the cluster.
- The way to calculate overhead of the storage pool is different when creating a new select cluster or add capacity to an existed cluster.
- When calculating the required minimum storage pool capacity, the following considerations need to be taken into account:
- Capacity desired for the ONTAP Select nodes to be used.
- Overhead reserved for ONTAP Select system backend operations: 130 GB - 272 GB per node
- A 2% buffer is reserved for the total storage pool.
Notes:
- A 2% buffer is left unused in each storage pool, which is only used for available capacity check.
- ONTAP Select virtual machines created on storage pools are attempted using thin-provisioning but are subject to underlying storage policies.
- If honored, ONTAP Select will not immediately consume the full amount of the storage specified.
- If ONTAP Select attempts to use storage that has been allocated to it and if enough storage is not available, a data-serving outage will occur.