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VMware datastore freespace discrepancy

doug_dockter
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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

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netapp> Thu Feb  5 14:35:30 CST [telnet_0:info]: root logged in from host: ddock
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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
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/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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