Hi all, I wanted to ask the collective wisdom out there about how many disks to put in an aggregate.
I have an F825 with 2 DS14 shelves, currently set up as 1 aggregate (so 28 disks in the aggregate), double parity, and 2 spares.
I will be adding another DS14 shelf, identical disks as the other 2 shelves. My preference is to just extend the existing aggregate to 42 disks, and set up another volume for the new data that will be going on there - but I believe NetApp says that 28 disks is the max for an aggregate.
So, question is - anyone out there using more than 28 (like 42 !) disks in an aggregate ? Is it possible ? recommended ? I thought that the more disks the better in an aggregate for performance reasons, but I thought I'd see what you all say !
Thanks,
John