FlashPool creation - Different size SSD's

stormtrooper — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:23:21 GMT

Hi,

Currently running 8.2.3 7-Mode and have 6 x 100Gb SSD's and 4 x 200Gb's SSD's all set to SPARE at the moment.

I want create 2 seperate Flashpools as such, to maximize the SSD' capacity, rather than the 200's sizing down to 100's...

So, what I want to do is create:

1 x RAID-DP group of 6 x 100 SSD's

1 x RAID-DP group of 4 x 200 SSD's

I don't want to leave a spare SSD in either group. If I try doing this via the GUI, the system always want to leave one of the 200's as a spare.

I know the aggregate with need enabling as hybird mode. I'm thinking I first need to create a RAID-DP group with the 4 x 200's with a RAID group size of 4. Would it then be possible for me to create a seperate group, RAID size 6 for the remining 6 x 100 SSD's ? Ultimately I want to get a combined SSD Flashpool capacity of 743Gb.

Re: FlashPool creation - Different size SSD's

Sahana — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:48:51 GMT

Hi,

Please refer Best Practice Recommendations and Interoperability on page 16 of Flash Pool Design and Implementation Guide

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