Which option correctly lists the two primary functions of FlexGroup volumes?

• A. nondisruptive scale out; Massive Scale
• B. High availability; data dedup
• C. Snapshotting; cloning
• D. Tiering; QoS

Answer: (A)

FlexGroup volumes are designed to grow out without downtime and to support very large scales. The nondisruptive scale-out capability means you can increase capacity and performance by adding more member volumes to the FlexGroup, distributing I/O across many underlying volumes so clients continue to access data without interruption. This is especially valuable for workloads with high throughput NAS traffic, because scaling is done while the system stays online. Massive Scale refers to the ability to manage enormous amounts of data and files under a single namespace—think billions of objects and petabytes of storage—by spreading the load across many member volumes. Together, these capabilities let you start small and grow seamlessly to meet expanding unstructured data needs. Other NetApp features like high availability, data dedup, snapshotting, cloning, tiering, and QoS exist, but they are not the two defining functions of FlexGroup volumes.