topic Re: Protection Manager - shrink or pre-create the volume sizes? in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Protection-Manager-shrink-or-pre-create-the-volume-sizes/m-p/62574#M13066 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />With DFM 3.7 and older the volumes are thin provision to the same size as the aggr.&nbsp; If you want to create smaller volumes, then you would need to upgrade to DFM 3.8 and enable Dynamic seconday Volume zising.</P><P></P><P>dfm options set dpDynamicSecondarySizing=enabled</P><P></P><P>hope that helps.</P><P>Gregory</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:13:20 GMT gregorio 2009-08-11T15:13:20Z Protection Manager - shrink or pre-create the volume sizes? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Protection-Manager-shrink-or-pre-create-the-volume-sizes/m-p/62569#M13065 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><SPAN style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana;"><SPAN style="color: #000000;">Does anyone know of a work around to the auto-volume creation under Protection Manager (</SPAN><SPAN style="color: navy;">when replicating data to the DR site, the volumes are being created the same size as the source aggregate, not their original volume sizes) – our customer would like to know if there is a way we can shrink or pre-create the volume sizes.</SPAN></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:58 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Protection-Manager-shrink-or-pre-create-the-volume-sizes/m-p/62569#M13065 vsara 2025-06-05T07:24:58Z Re: Protection Manager - shrink or pre-create the volume sizes? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Protection-Manager-shrink-or-pre-create-the-volume-sizes/m-p/62574#M13066 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><BR />With DFM 3.7 and older the volumes are thin provision to the same size as the aggr.&nbsp; If you want to create smaller volumes, then you would need to upgrade to DFM 3.8 and enable Dynamic seconday Volume zising.</P><P></P><P>dfm options set dpDynamicSecondarySizing=enabled</P><P></P><P>hope that helps.</P><P>Gregory</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:13:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/Protection-Manager-shrink-or-pre-create-the-volume-sizes/m-p/62574#M13066 gregorio 2009-08-11T15:13:20Z