Storage Pools

Describes what storage pools are.

The file system storage architecture consists of multiple storage pools that reside on each node in a cluster. A storage pool is made up of one or more disks grouped by the Data Fabric file system. The default number of disks in a storage pool is three. The containers that hold the Data Fabric file system data are stored in, and replicated among the storage pools in the cluster.

The following image represents disks grouped together to create storage pools that reside on a node:



Write operations within a storage pool are striped across disks to improve write performance. Stripe width and depth are configurable with the disksetup script. As the Data Fabric file system performs data replication, you do not need to configure RAID.