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Why are new plexes named plex2, plex5.. Why not plex 1 or 0?

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  • ONTAP 9
  • NetApp ONTAP Select
  • NetApp SyncMirror

Answer

This is by design. The only requirement is that two plexes have different names.

By default, we will get plex0 and plex1. They keep incrementing when plexes are destroyed and then re-created.

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