I allocated too much storage to a LUN that contains one of my databases. The FlexVol that houses the LUN has also been sized too large, and I want to reclaim some of that aggregrate storage for other volumes.
I understand that I should not reduce the size of the LUN. I am planning to use SnapDrive create a new LUN within the same Volume, move the database to the new LUN, then destroy the old LUN, then reduce the size of the Volume.
I'm wondering if these are the steps I should take?:
- use SnapManager to move the database to a local drive
- delete the existing LUN (how to do this??? - never needed to kill a LUN)
- recreate a new smaller LUN using SnapDrive
- migrate the new "local" database onto the recreated LUN.
Are there any gotchas that I should watch out for, or any guidance anybody has on this procedure for a newbie?
Thanks,
Normajean