topic Aggregate overcommitment in Network and Storage Protocols

Aggregate overcommitment

__stvoglioRUN_13221 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:30:14 GMT

Hi,

I wonder if someone has expirence with aggregate overvommitment.

Can you give me a hint how to solve this (pdf, best practices, theory and/or practice, ...)?

Thanks

Stefano

amiller_1 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:14:00 GMT

Hmm...can you elaborate a bit on the situation?

The most obvious thing to me would be a trial SnapMirror license to move some volumes to a different aggregate.

pia — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:39:39 GMT

Hi Stefano,

Aggregate overcommitment is also called "thin provisioning" and there are a couple of tech reports about it.

For general information, see TR-3563, "NetApp Thin Provisioning", at http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3563.pdf.

For SAN environments, see TR-3483, "Thin Provisioning in a NetApp SAN or IP SAN Enterprise Environment", at http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr3483.pdf.

-Pia