Hello, I am soon going to be re-creatng an aggregate that will be used for our vmware environment, and I just wanted to ask for some tips and best practices that I should implement.
So here is a little bit of info about my filer.
Its a Fas3140 filer, running ontap 7.3.1.1p3
Currently I am in the process of moving volumes from this Aggregate of fiber channel disks, to an SATA Aggregate, they are all cifs volumes.
If i do aggr status <aggrname> -v I get the following;
Aggr State Status Options
cifs online raid_dp, aggr root, diskroot, nosnap=off,
redirect raidtype=raid_dp, raidsize=16,
ignore_inconsistent=off,
snapmirrored=off,
resyncsnaptime=60,
fs_size_fixed=off,
snapshot_autodelete=on,
lost_write_protect=on
Volumes: vol0, finservacct, it, marketing, pmdata,
citrix_streams, users, gms_data, data, gcs
Plex /cifs/plex0: online, normal, active
RAID group /cifs/plex0/rg0: normal
RAID group /cifs/plex0/rg1: normal
I know that this aggregate is using raid_dp and has 16 disks.
if I do df -Ah cifs:
Aggregate total used avail capacity
cifs 4087GB 3125GB 962GB 76%
cifs/.snapshot 215GB 61GB 153GB 29%
I see that its also taking up some space by doing aggr snapshots, which I will disable the schedule and purge those snapshots later on.
So I have about 4293GB if I take back the snapshot space.
We dont have an NFS license, we have a VMFS, so the new volumes on that aggregate will be vmfs. Is there a good way to split up that 4293GB of disk space into 2 or 4 volumes, which then on will contain a lun presented to esx?
Thank you,
Anton