What is the primary effect of enabling FabricPool on a volume?

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

Answer: (B)

FabricPool is a data tiering feature that offloads infrequently accessed data to cloud object storage while keeping frequently accessed (hot) data on the local primary storage for performance. The primary effect is to free up local storage space by moving cold data to the cloud, with on-demand retrieval if that data is later needed. This directly matches the described effect: cold data is moved from on-prem ONTAP volumes to cloud object storage to save local primary storage. It doesn’t imply duplicating data across locations, nor does it continuously cache all data locally, and it isn’t about compressing all data.