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Metro node applies all configuration changes to and volume deployments from the current provisioning context. The generated metadata from the configuration and volume deployments are written to metro node meta volumes. Therefore, it is important to set the provisioning context correctly before configuring and provisioning storage in a metro node appliance.
For metro node Local, there is only one provisioning context: cluster-1.
For metro node Metro, there are three provisioning contexts: cluster-1, cluster-2, and Distributed Storage: