Unfortunately you are going to need more than 1 aggregate.
The max raw aggreate size is 16TB. That works out to ~2 shelves of 500GB drives. Plus the max raid group size for ATA drives is 16, but you've said you're only planning on putting 10 in each, so that's fine.
The System Configuration Guide on now.netapp.com lists all of this.
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 05:17:52AM -0700, Page, Jeremy wrote:
If I have 4 RAID groups in an aggregate does the IO normally get balanced across them? I trying to figure out what the best way to present ~15 TB of NFS space to my VMware environment is. I have 5 shelves of 500 gig drives so my plan was to create 4 RAID DP stripes down the shelves (so 4 RAID groups of 10 drives each, counting parity) and then stick all 4 raid groups into an aggregate. Anyone seen issues with this? It's on a 3070, I'll be connecting via 10 gigE and NFS will carry most of the traffic.
I apologize if this is a repost, I thought I sent this last week but don't see it on the list.
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