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7-mode deduplication 100%

HenryUK
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Hi All

 

i am working with a FAS2050 with 2.4TB on each controller

 

yesterday we started to enable dedup 1 volume at a time (excluding vol0)

 

vol2 went from 412GB @ 96% to 63% (400GB lun)

 

whihc was a great start

 

today vol3 went from 415GB 94% to 100% (251GB lun) instantly and says snapshot creation failed

 

what would be the reason for this? there are no snapshot copies visable from oncommand

 

any ideas

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aborzenkov
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De duplication creates snapshot internally. So it may happen. The first thing to check would be fractional reserve settings.

HenryUK
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can yo give me some guidance on the commands?

HenryUK
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i see there is an enable fractional reserver 100%

 

i am investigating that now i can just disable this yes?

aborzenkov
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Fractional reserve ensures your LUNs won't suddenly get out of space. Make sure you understand implications before disabling it.

HenryUK
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okay thank you - i have taken off the fractional reserver whilst i run the dedup as there is plenty of space and no backups are performed using storage snapshots

 

when the dedup has completed i will re-enable

 

Cheers

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