AFF Partitioning in 9.1

[coreywanless]

I had such good luck with my last post. I'm going for 2 for 2. 😄

Current Ontap 9 Documentation states that in an AFF, you should assign disks 0-11 to node 1 and 12-24 to node 2. 

https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2495116 (PG 😎

However, I see that we now have 2 data partitions:

xxxxx::*> disk partition show 9.0.1.*

                          Usable  Container     Container

Partition                 Size    Type          Name              Owner

------------------------- ------- ------------- ----------------- -----------------

9.0.1.P1                   1.72TB spare         Pool0             xxxxx

9.0.1.P2                   1.72TB spare         Pool0             xxxxx

9.0.1.P3                  59.72GB aggregate     /xxxrootxxx/plex0/rg0

                                                                  xxxxx

Should the new best practice be to assign all P1's to node 1 and all P2's to node 2?

Looking for some guidance.

Thanks in advance!

[AlexDawson]

Hi midi,

Just put them into the empty slots in the two DS2246s attached and they will be automatically partitioned, then it's a matter of assigning the data partitions to existing aggregates using either the GUI or CL
Hope this helps!

[midi]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your replies.