A customer wants to use FabricPool technology to tier to object storage, using their on-premises NetApp FAS system. Which feature allows this…

FabricPool technology enables NetApp ONTAP systems to automatically tier inactive, "cold" data from high-performance SSDs (the performance tier) to a lower-cost object storage repository (the capacity tier). While FabricPool supports public cloud object stores like Amazon S3 and Azure Blob, it also supports on-premises solutions. NetApp StorageGRID is NetApp's on-premises, S3-compatible object storage platform specifically designed to serve as a capacity tier for FabricPool. This allows customers to create a hybrid cloud storage solution entirely within their own data center, retaining full control over their data while optimizing storage costs.

A. Azure Blob: This is a public cloud object storage service provided by Microsoft and is not an on-premises solution.

B. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3): This is a public cloud object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services, not an on-premises solution.

C. NetApp ONTAP Simple Storage Service (S3): This feature allows an ONTAP system to serve data as an S3 object store, not to act as a tiering target for its own FabricPool-enabled volumes.

1. NetApp Technical Report 4598, "FabricPool Best Practices":

Page 10, Section 2.2, "Supported Object Stores": This section explicitly lists "NetApp StorageGRID" as a supported "On-premises object stores" for FabricPool. It lists "Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3)" and "Microsoft Azure Blob Storage" under "Public cloud object stores".

2. NetApp ONTAP 9 Documentation, "FabricPool management overview":

Section: "What FabricPool is": The documentation states, "You can use FabricPool to tier data to a NetApp or third-party object store on the premises or to the cloud." This confirms the capability for on-premises tiering.

3. NetApp ONTAP 9 Documentation, "Add an on-premises object store to the cluster":

Section: "Before you begin": This guide for configuring on-premises capacity tiers states, "You must have an S3 server, such as NetApp StorageGRID, running in your data center." This directly identifies StorageGRID as the intended NetApp on-premises solution.