Hi All,
Can we decrease the size in Solid Fire? if not why.
> Instead, the user has to create a new datastore of a desired size and copy data from the old datastore to the new data store.
Or storage-vMotion the VMs over to a new or existing volume.
> All SolidFire volumes are thin provisioned so the volumes do not reserve the physical space on the storage at creation and only consumes physical space as data is sent to the volume.
In other words, it's a non-issue unless one has hundreds of volumes and is close to hitting one of the (pretty high) maximum tested values. And even in that case, that is easy to address by storage-vMotion'ing VMs to consolidate volumes because that can be automated and is fully offloaded to SolidFire by VMware.
Hi Navaneeth,
Can you clarify what you are trying to decrease within SolidFire. Are you wanting to decrease the size of the overall SolidFire cluster? Or are you referring to decreasing the size of an active volume within the SolidFire cluster?
Thanks
Team NetApp
are you referring to decreasing the size of an active volume within the SolidFire cluster - referring to this
Cheers,
Unfortunately you can not decrease the size of a volume once the volume is created. You can only increase the size of a volume. If you need to decrease a volume you will need to create a new volume and migrate the data over.
Reference: https://docs.netapp.com/sfe-117/topic/com.netapp.doc.sfe-ug/GUID-036F5935-4E4F-4E58-8B8E-2F780CD4A939.html?cp=4_0_8_1_5
Thanks,
Any specific reason behind not able to decrease, please explain in detail? volume we create in solid Fire are not logical is that the reason?
Regards,Navaneeth Reddy
