Updating throughput capacity - FSx for ONTAP

Updating throughput capacity

You can modify a file system's throughput capacity using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the Amazon FSx API.

Note

You must wait a minimum of six hours between updating the throughput capacity for second-generation file systems.

  1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

  2. Navigate to File systems, and choose the ONTAP file system that you want to increase the throughput capacity for.

  3. For Actions, choose Update throughput capacity. Or, in the Summary panel, choose Update next to the file system's Throughput capacity.

  4. Choose the new value for Throughput capacity from the list.

  5. Choose Update to initiate the throughput capacity update.

  6. You can monitor the update progress on the File systems detail page, on the Updates tab.

    You can monitor the progress of the update by using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS CLI, and the API. For more information, see Monitoring throughput capacity changes.

To modify a file system's throughput capacity, use the AWS CLI command update-file-system. Set the following parameters:

  • --file-system-id to the ID of the file system that you are updating.

  • ThroughputCapacity to the desired value to update the file system to.

You can monitor the progress of the update by using the Amazon FSx console, the AWS CLI, and the API. For more information, see Monitoring throughput capacity changes.