Data Backup and Recovery

LUN Space Reservation: disabled, but not giving space back to the volume

txskibum2000
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So, I have a weird issue...

I have a 135Gb Volume called "ctxlic_db".  The volume guarantee is enabled, with 0 fractional_reserve.

I have a 100Gb LUN called "ctxlic_db.lun" in the volume with space reservation disabled.

LUN is attached to a Win2003 host.  The windows host shows the drive/lun is using just under 7Gb (93Gb free).

The 135Gb Volume, with 43Gb of Snapshots, show 88% full, using 118Gb space!?

So, my question is, why is my volume showing 88% full, when LUN Space Reservation is disabled, and the host is using only 7Gb.

I would generally expect the volume used space being 50Gb (7Gb used space + 43Gb of snapshots).

Details below and attached.

Thanks!

fa02> vol status /vol/ctxlic_db

         Volume State           Status            Options

      ctxlic_db online          raid_dp, flex     nosnap=on, create_ucode=on,

                                                  convert_ucode=on, no_i2p=on,

                                                  fractional_reserve=0

                Containing aggregate: 'fc_aggr1'

fa02>

fa02>

fa02> lun show -v /vol/ctxlic_db/ctxlic_db.lun

        /vol/ctxlic_db/ctxlic_db.lun  100.0g (107389255680)  (r/w, online, mapped)

                Comment: "I"

                Serial#: W-OPKZYMnCUu

                Share: none

                Space Reservation: disabled

                Multiprotocol Type: windows_gpt

                Maps: viaRPC.iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:ctxlic.aaefcu.org=5

fa02>

fa02>

fa02> df /vol/ctxlic_db/ctxlic_db.lun

Filesystem              kbytes       used      avail capacity  Mounted on

/vol/ctxlic_db/      141557760  124558928   16998832      88%  /vol/ctxlic_db/

/vol/ctxlic_db/.snapshot          0   45575696          0     ---%  /vol/ctxlic_db/.snapshot

fa02>

fa02>

fa02>

fa02> df -h /vol/ctxlic_db/ctxlic_db.lun

Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on

/vol/ctxlic_db/          135GB      118GB       16GB      88%  /vol/ctxlic_db/

/vol/ctxlic_db/.snapshot        0GB       43GB        0GB     ---%  /vol/ctxlic_db/.snapshot

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gridley
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No worries, happy to (try to ) help!

As I recall there are things that will stop SR from running. such as snapshots being taken. I will have a search and see if anything useful turns up.

It might be worth opening a case if you have time, so we can get you your storage back!

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gridley
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Have you written data to the LUN and then deleted it? You will need to run space reclamation from SnapDrive if so to get the space back.

txskibum2000
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This is what I was thinking, thank you for your reply.

I tried to run Space Reclamation twice (via Snapdrive), and it would get to 3-4% (10-15minutes), then quit running.

gridley
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No worries, happy to (try to ) help!

As I recall there are things that will stop SR from running. such as snapshots being taken. I will have a search and see if anything useful turns up.

It might be worth opening a case if you have time, so we can get you your storage back!

txskibum2000
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Thanks.

I have read the "Reasons for SnapDrive to automatically stop Space Reclaimer", and none of those reasons apply to me.

I will open a case with NetApp.

gridley
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EDIT: just saw your reply, so this isn't relevant!

From the docs:

https://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/snapdrive/relsnap63/html/software/admin/GUID-1F3DD258-F601-4CAE-B765-05507F76A493.html

"SnapDrive for Windows automatically stops Space Reclaimer in several instances.

  • During any LUN management operation on a LUN running Space Reclaimer, including LUN disconnect and LUN delete operations
  • During any Snapshot copy management operation except Snapshot copy rename and delete
  • On all LUNs of the same storage system volume during Snapshot copy creation
  • If the SnapDrive service is stopped
  • During LUN restore operations for any volume mount points directly or indirectly mounted (cascading) from the disk being restored
  • During Windows host cluster failoverIf a host cluster failover operation occurs on a Windows Server 2003 MSCS or Windows Server 2008 failover cluster while Space Reclaimer is running on a shared LUN, space reclamation will stop running on that LUN.
  • During any MPIO path management operations, including adding or removing an initiator or active path selection"

Did any of this happen?

jakob_bena
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hi,

you can use the option of your snapdrive tool called spacereclaimend. this will refresh the used space of your volumen.

on filer site you can use wafl reallocate, but i think for you it is the best way to do this with the snapdrive option.

regards

txskibum2000
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Support has refered me to KB 3011577, which i have read, and has suggested to create a new LUN...  NDMP copy the data from the old LUN to the new LUN, and attached to the new LUN -destroy the old LUN.  I figure this would be the recommendation...

Thanks all!

gridley
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Completely random thought - I wonder if the LUN move functionality would achieve the same resullt? Probably something to test in a different environment... I imagine not since it uses mirroring instead of an NDMP copy.

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