Accelerated compression-enabled parity groups

Data on LDEVs carved from parity groups comprised of FMC drives is compressed before it is stored onto the drives. However, accelerated compression is not enabled by default; you need to enable accelerated compression to take advantage of the data compression services on FMC drives.

olh-note.gif If Encryption is enabled on an FMC parity group, you cannot compress encrypted data and accelerated compression cannot be enabled on that parity group. You can either encrypt or compress your data.

When you enable accelerated compression on a parity group comprised of FMC drives: