What is FabricPool (cloud tiering) in NetApp?

• A. It caches hot data locally and keeps everything on primary storage.
• B. FabricPool moves cold data from on-prem ONTAP volumes to object storage in the cloud to save local primary storage.
• C. It duplicates data across multiple volumes.
• D. It compresses all data on the volume.

Answer: (B)

FabricPool is NetApp’s cloud tiering feature that moves cold data from on‑prem ONTAP volumes to an object store in the cloud, freeing up local primary storage while keeping the data accessible when needed. A tiering policy identifies which data is cold, and that data is moved off the local volume to cloud storage. The data remains accessible—ONTAP keeps the metadata and can transparently fetch and rehydrate the file from the cloud when it’s read again. This approach reduces on‑prem storage footprint while still providing seamless access to data, without copying everything to the cloud or compressing all data.