Aggregate Wizard

You add aggregates by using the Aggregate Wizard. When you add an aggregate, the wizard asks you for information, including:

• A name for the aggregate.

• RAID type (double parity or RAID 4)

• RAID group size

• Disks to include in the aggregate. You can select the disks manually or have Data ONTAP select the disks for you automatically, based on disk size.

The maximum number of aggregates allowed per storage system is 100, regardless of which type of volume the aggregate contains.

For clusters, these limits apply to each node individually, so the overall limits for the pair are doubled. Higher number of traditional and FlexVol volumes on your system can affect takeover and giveback times if your system is part of an active-active pair (cluster) environment. When adding traditional or FlexVol volumes to a cluster, consider testing the takeover and giveback times to ensure that they fall within your requirements.