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ONTAP 9 on FAS storage array with compaction

jsandova — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:33:00 GMT

Has anyone with a FAS arrary upgraded to ONTAP 9 and tested compaction yet? I am curious to see how a non FLASH FAS handles compaction. We currently have a FAS 8040 with a flash pool and are wondering if upgrading to ONTAP 9 is worth it.

Re: ONTAP 9 on FAS storage array with compaction

Sahana — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:13:19 GMT

Hi,

Refer http://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-vsmg%2FGUID-D790CE90-D79E-4887-BEA0-C3BCC0516349.html for more information on compaction.

Re: ONTAP 9 on FAS storage array with compaction

jsandova — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:41:48 GMT

Sahana,

Thanks for the documentation reference. I still would like to know if there is anyone out there using compaction on a FAS system. I have a FAS 8040 system and am interested in trying out ONTAP 9.

Re: ONTAP 9 on FAS storage array with compaction

colin_graham — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:40:32 GMT

I would be interested to know this too (8040 with flashpools)

All it seems to say in the documentation is that you can enable it and it will consume extra CPU on HDD systems.