topic Re: Aggregate spanning to external disks on FAS2020... in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37061#M8833 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Christopher.</P><P>Thanks!<BR />I found that link just a short while ago. Thought I had heard this info when 7.2.4L1 was announced.</P><P>Will upgrade to 7.2.5.1. Set aggr raidsize to 11 (lock current aggr0/rg0 in place) then add 4 disks using aggr add aggr0 -d, readjust raidsize back to 16 and add 9 more FC disks, leaving one spare.</P><P>Unless someone has a more detailed procedure? I did see an article about heterogeneous drive pool... but dont think I need to get that detailed...</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:12:49 GMT mikewargel 2008-09-12T00:12:49Z Aggregate spanning to external disks on FAS2020... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37049#M8826 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Needing to add 300GB FC/15k disks to an aggregate of 300GB/15K SAS internal disks on a FAS2020. I thought I was told this could be done but it requires a certain rev of OnTap. Has anyone done this yet? What version of OnTap is required? I did try in 7.2.2L1 but error about adding different type of disks wasn't allowed.</P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:33:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37049#M8826 mikewargel 2025-06-05T07:33:32Z Re: Aggregate spanning to external disks on FAS2020... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37053#M8828 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Great question Mike, and as this appears to be your first post - Welcome to the Communities!</P><P></P><P>So, to address your question - Yes you can do this!</P><P>Indeed 7.2.2L1 did not support this, the support for this came about in 7.2.4L1 (Though I'd advise going to 7.2.5.1 if your environment will support it)</P><P></P><P>The reference for this is here:</P><P></P><P></P><P><A href="http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel7251/html/ontap/rnote/rel_notes/concept/c_oc_rn_feat72-stor-comm-agg.html#c_oc_rn_feat72-stor-comm-agg" target="_blank">Common aggregates between external and internal disks</A></P><P></P><P>I'm writing this with Chrome (and lack intelligent HTML editing power in the writing window - so I'll repost the table from IE or Firefox)</P><P></P><P>Thanks for your question Mike, and as for this working, I performed this very same function on a 2050 yesterday!</P><P></P><P>Christopher</P><P></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:59:04 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37053#M8828 kusek 2008-09-11T23:59:04Z Re: Aggregate spanning to external disks on FAS2020... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37058#M8830 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>And here is the table!</P><P></P><P><SPAN style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px"></SPAN></P><P>Aggregates spanning disks are supported in the following configurations:</P><DIV><TABLE border="1"><THEAD><TR><TH>If your internal drives are ...</TH><TH>Aggregates can span external drives that are ...</TH></TR><TR><TH>Type</TH><TH>Speed (in RPM)</TH><TH>Disk shelf</TH><TH>Type</TH><TH>Speed</TH></TR></THEAD><TBODY><TR><TD>SATA</TD><TD>7200</TD><TD>DS14mk2 AT</TD><TD>SATA</TD><TD>7200</TD></TR><TR><TD>SAS</TD><TD>15000</TD><TD>DS14mk2</TD><TD>FC</TD><TD>10000</TD></TR><TR><TD>SAS</TD><TD>15000</TD><TD>DS14mk4</TD><TD>FC</TD><TD>10000</TD></TR><TR><TD>SAS</TD><TD>15000</TD><TD>DS14mk2</TD><TD>FC</TD><TD>15000</TD></TR><TR><TD>SAS</TD><TD>15000</TD><TD>DS14mk4</TD><TD>FC</TD><TD>15000</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><P></P><P>Thanks again! </P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37058#M8830 kusek 2008-09-12T00:00:40Z Re: Aggregate spanning to external disks on FAS2020... https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37061#M8833 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Christopher.</P><P>Thanks!<BR />I found that link just a short while ago. Thought I had heard this info when 7.2.4L1 was announced.</P><P>Will upgrade to 7.2.5.1. Set aggr raidsize to 11 (lock current aggr0/rg0 in place) then add 4 disks using aggr add aggr0 -d, readjust raidsize back to 16 and add 9 more FC disks, leaving one spare.</P><P>Unless someone has a more detailed procedure? I did see an article about heterogeneous drive pool... but dont think I need to get that detailed...</P><P>Mike</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:12:49 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Aggregate-spanning-to-external-disks-on-FAS2020/m-p/37061#M8833 mikewargel 2008-09-12T00:12:49Z