Which statement best describes FlexGroup in ONTAP?

• A. FlexGroup is primarily for object storage
• B. FlexGroup increases encryption
• C. FlexGroup scales out NAS IOPS and throughput across multiple volumes
• D. FlexGroup provides archiving

Answer: (C)

FlexGroup is a scale-out NAS approach in ONTAP that presents a single shared namespace across multiple member volumes. By spreading files and I/O across these volumes, it increases parallelism, which boosts NAS IOPS and overall throughput for large, concurrent file workloads. It’s designed to enhance file service performance (NFS/SMB) by adding more volumes to the group and distributing work among them.

It’s not about object storage, encryption, or archiving. Object storage in ONTAP involves different interfaces (such as S3), encryption is a separate feature, and archiving isn’t the purpose of FlexGroup.