When Should You Be Using NetApp FlexGroup Volumes? (Spoiler Alert: It’s Now.)
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NetApp® ONTAP® FlexGroup volumes were introduced in ONTAP 9.1 to provide a scale-out NAS solution that could extend beyond the limitations of the NetApp FlexVol® volume. This is done by combining multiple FlexVol volumes into a single namespace and having ONTAP balance incoming data automatically, with real-time updates of capacity and file counts to maintain a capacity balance across all constituent volumes. FlexGroup volumes offer the following benefits over FlexVol volumes: […]
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