Why does the amount of available storage shown differ?

Sycraft · ‎2019-05-09

We have a FAS2620 running OnTap 9.5P3 set up with two aggregates, A and B. When I go to the Dashboard on the web page and look at cluster overview, it shows that A is 61% used, and B is 44% used. However when I go to the Aggregates page under storage, it shows that A is 91% used and B is 52% used.

Why is there such a disparity between the two displays and which one is likley to be correct?

SpindleNinja · ‎2019-05-09

I would guess maybe a bug/glitch in the GUI? can you post screenshots?

what's "aggr show" say?

Sycraft · ‎2019-05-09

Here's the dashboard:

And here's the aggregate tab:

show aggregate agrees with the information displayed on the aggregate tab. However there are a couple of strange things:

1) I deleted a volume that had 8TB of data... and only 2TB of available space showed up.

2) When I querey the volumes for physical space used, it is not equal to what I am seeing with show aggregate, it is equal to what I'm seeing with the dashboard.

SpindleNinja · ‎2019-05-10

Re: the GUI displays it is odd. I checked a 9.1 lab filer i have and it's different too. not as much as yours though. I'll see if I can do some deeper digging.

1) Depends what the "used size" size is. "vol show -fields used"

2) It never will, there is metadata hanging around WAFL that will add additional space.