Setting Up the NetApp Capacity Pool

- In the Azure NetApp Files tab, browse to your NetApp account.
- In Storage Services, select Capacity Pools.
- Click + and enter values for the following:
- Name: enter a name for the pool.
- Service Level: select a service level.
- Pool Size: enter 4 (TB) for the pool size. (This is a service minimum.)

- Set your main resource group name to an environment variable:
# RESOURCE_GROUP=<your resource group name>
For example:# RESOURCE_GROUP=srg-demo
- Run the command:
# az netappfiles pool create -g $RESOURCE_GROUP --account-name <ACCOUNT_NAME> --name <POOL_NAME> -l <LOCATION> --size 4 --service-level premium
Parameters:
<POOL_NAME>
is your new pool name
<ACCOUNT_NAME>
is the NetApp account name specified in previous step
For example:# az netappfiles pool create -g $RESOURCE_GROUP --account-name SrgDemoNetAppAdmin --name srg-demo-pool-name -l westeurope --size 4 --service-level premium

- Set your main resource group name to an environment variable:
# RESOURCE_GROUP=<your resource group name>
For example:# RESOURCE_GROUP=srg-demo
- Run the command:
# az netappfiles pool create -g $RESOURCE_GROUP --account-name <ACCOUNT_NAME> --name <POOL_NAME> -l <LOCATION> --size 4 --service-level premium
Parameters:
<POOL_NAME>
is your new pool name
<ACCOUNT_NAME>
is the NetApp account name specified in previous step
For example:# az netappfiles pool create -g $RESOURCE_GROUP --account-name SrgDemoNetAppAdmin --name srg-demo-pool-name -l westeurope --size 4 --service-level premium
Next Step: Creating and Preparing the Volume