A customer has a current AFF ASA A700 cluster and they want to expand the cluster by adding a second AFF ASA A700 HA pair.
In this scenario, which step would be required to accomplish this task?
A customer has a current AFF ASA A700 cluster and they want to expand the cluster by adding a second AFF ASA A700 HA pair.
In this scenario, which step would be required to accomplish this task?
In the context of ONTAP 9.7, AFF ASA systems are built as single high-availability (HA) pairs and do not support expanding the cluster by adding additional HA pairs. Therefore, attempting to add a second AFF ASA A700 HA pair to the same cluster is not feasible. The correct approach would be to create a separate cluster for the second AFF ASA A700 pair.
C, With Ontap 9.7 ASA can only be a stand alone HA cluster. With Ontap 9.8 (not part of this exam) the cluster can be expanded to 12 nodes The following text is part of the TR4515, page 6 With ONTAP 9.7, NetApp introduced AFF ASA systems, which feature symmetric active-active topology, as shown in Figure 2. The ASA supports SAN (block protocols) only and is built on a single HA pair. It currently supports FC and iSCSI protocols, and support for NVMe protocols and larger clusters are expected in later releases.