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Does a new FlexGroup constituent receive write priority?

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  • ONTAP 9
  • FlexGroup

Answer

Adding new members to a FlexGroup volume changes the ingest heuristics to favor the new, empty member volumes for new data more often and can affect overall system performance for new data ingest while the new members catch up to the existing members.

Additional Information            

Reference section "Volume expand considerations" in FlexGroup best practices and implementation guide on Page 103.
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