A company has an existing on-premises NetApp AFF array in their datacenter that is about...

In this scenario, the company needs to quickly free up storage capacity on its on-premises NetApp AFF array, especially since much of the data is cold. The best solution isBlueXP tiering(formerly Cloud Tiering), which moves infrequently accessed (cold) data from the high-performance on-premises storage to more cost-effective cloud storage.

By automatically tiering cold data to the cloud,BlueXP tieringenables the company to free up space on their existing AFF array without additional on-premises hardware, and it prepares them for a future cloud migration. This process can be implemented quickly and efficiently to meet their immediate storage needs.

Other options likeBlueXP backup and recovery (B),BlueXP replication (C), andBlueXP copy and sync (D)are focused on data protection, replication, and synchronization, but they do not directly address the need to free up on-premises storage space.