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Is autogrow needed to allow thin volume / lun to grow

nsitps1976
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Hi

If I have a 1TB volume with a 900GB Lun both thinly provisioned – 200GBs worth of data which is consuming 200GBs from the aggregate do I need volume autogrow enabled to allow the volume to grow up to 1TB (assuming there is sufficient free space in the aggragte)?

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thomas_glodde
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If "vol size <volume>" really says 1TB and "lun show -v" really shows LUN size 900GB, then you dont need autogrow unless you are using snapshots. If using snapshots you should set the autogrow to ~2.3 times of the LUN size.

nsitps1976
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Thats great thanks.

I would prefer not to use autogrow and only use autodelete - Is this a valid config?

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