I have my VMware ESX datastore on a NetApp LUN. The volume associated with the LUN shows 26 GB of free space. However when I display the datastore freespace in VMware it shows 98 GB free. Can you help me understand the discrepancy.
/vmfs/volumes/471f7838-fcbe3a6f-806b-001c23c68968
249G 154G 95G 61% /vmfs/volumes/Datastore1
Data ONTAP (netapp.unitedtrust.com)
login: root
Password:
netapp> Thu Feb 5 14:35:30 CST [telnet_0:info]: root logged in from host: ddock
ter.unitedtrust.com
df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/vol/vol0/ 140497404 268472 140228932 0% /vol/vol0/
/vol/vol0/.snapshot 35124348 8372 35115976 0% /vol/vol0/.snapsh
ot
/vol/file_shares/ 32715572 29697628 3017944 91% /vol/file_shares/
/vol/file_shares/.snapshot 8178892 438156 7740736 5% /vol/file_
shares/.snapshot
/vol/vol2/ 398458880 371353684 27105196 93% /vol/vol2/
snap reserve 0 76 0 ---% /vol/vol2/..
/vol/vmwaredatastore1/ 262144000 237195360 24948640 90% /vol/vmwaredat
astore1/
/vol/vmwaredatastore1/.snapshot 65536000 12571328 52964672 19% /vol/
vmwaredatastore1/.snapshot
/vol/vmwarepagepool1/ 31457280 4442852 27014428 14% /vol/vmwarepage
pool1/
snap reserve 0 0 0 ---% /vol/vmwarepagepo
ol1/..
/vol/zantaz_archive/ 47185920 37220924 9964996 79% /vol/zantaz_arch
ive/
/vol/zantaz_archive/.snapshot 5242880 3086584 2156296 59% /vol/za
ntaz_archive/.snapshot
/vol/vol1/ 10485760 357876 10127884 3% /vol/vol1/
snap reserve 2621440 8052 2613388 0% /vol/vol1/..
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