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Volume Missing Space

jmpal
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Hello,

 

We're seem to be missing around 3.8TB capacity on our volume

 

df -g output:

 

Filesystem total used avail capacity Mounted on
/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/ 4096GB 168GB 309GB 92% /vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/
/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/.snapshot 0GB 3GB 0GB ---% /vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/.snapshot

 

Notice that the used capacity is only 168GB on a 4TB NFS volume. But the usage capacity is already 92% !!!

 

The host where this NFS volume is presented to also show used space of 92%

 

stgc308vf001:CDF   3727.36    307.60   92%        0     0% /mnt/insightshare/cdf

stgc308vf001:training$   3727.36    307.60   92%        0     0% /mnt/insightshare/training

 

I've tried running sis start -s on this volume and also reset sis <vol> but didn't make any difference (as per the known dedupe bug)

 

I've also already made the snap reserve = 0

 

vol options output:


nosnap=on, nosnapdir=off, minra=off, no_atime_update=off, nvfail=off,
ignore_inconsistent=off, snapmirrored=off, create_ucode=off,
convert_ucode=off, maxdirsize=41861, schedsnapname=ordinal,
fs_size_fixed=off, guarantee=none, svo_enable=off, svo_checksum=off,
svo_allow_rman=off, svo_reject_errors=off, no_i2p=off,
fractional_reserve=0, extent=off, try_first=volume_grow,
read_realloc=off, snapshot_clone_dependency=off, dlog_hole_reserve=off,
nbu_archival_snap=off

 

Netapp version is:  NetApp Release 8.1.4P8 7-Mode:

 

Note that this volume was originally setup with guarantee=file and fractional_reserve=100. I changed this to guarantee=none and fractional_reserve=0 but with no effect.

 

Hoping for your kind assistance.

 

regards,

jmpal

 

 

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aborzenkov
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Your volume is thin provisioned with virtual size almost equal to aggregate size. So it can have only as much free space as aggregate has. Must other volumes are thin provisioned too, so any change in consumed capacity on any volume will affect all of them.

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jmpal
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Additional info on snap:

 

Previously 9% (approx 300GB+) but I changed this to 0%

 

 

snap reserve -V

before:

Volume nas_ist_wdtd_01: current snapshot reserve is 9% or 386547056 k-bytes.   <<< 385GB

 

after:

Volume nas_ist_wdtd_01: current snapshot reserve is 0% or 0 k-bytes.

 

There are 2 system snaps (snapmirror) but both are very small...

 

snap reclaimable nas_ist_wdtd_01 stgs307fas550(0151741186)_nas_ist_wdtr_01.622

Processing (Press Ctrl-C to exit) ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

snap reclaimable: Approximately 3634292 Kbytes would be freed..

 

snap reclaimable nas_ist_wdtd_01 snapshot_for_backup.5607

Processing (Press Ctrl-C to exit) ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

snap reclaimable: Approximately 1528 Kbytes would be freed.

 

thanks,

jmp

sgrant
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Hi, interesting!

 

Could you supply the output of the folliowing for the nas_ist_wdtd_01 volume and hosting aggregate, as well as the SnapMirror destination:

 

 

vol size

df -h

df -h -S

df -h -A

 

aggr show_space -h

 

FYI...the volume gurantee setting would not affect the used space in the volume, but rather in the aggregate. Also, the fractional_reserve will only affect SAN volumes. Just to explain why you've seen no change in the volume used space.

 

Have you raised a Support case for this yet?

 

Thanks.

 

jmpal
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Hi sgrant,

 

Thank you for your reply.

 

I just noticed overnight that the amount of volume  space used has gone down from 92% to 60% although the used space is still the same (165GB). The only thing I can think of is that the reset sis or sis start -s (I ran both) were doing backuground cleanup.

 

Still the capacity used (60%) does not reflect the used capacity of 165GB out of 4TB.

 

Also, last night we were trying to cleanup and vmotion servers away from aggr1 to aggr0 as it was hitting 93-95%.

 

I don't have a copy of the df -Ag from last night, but it was approx aggr0 37% , aggr1 93%. ATM, it is aggr0 57%, aggr1 63%.

 

Here are the outputs from this morning:

 

vol size

vol size: Flexible volume 'nas_ist_wdtd_01' has size 4t.

 

df -h

Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on

/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/     4096GB      165GB     1643GB      60%  /vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/

/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/.snapshot        0MB      264MB        0MB     ---%  /vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/.snapshot

 

df -h -S

Filesystem                used       total-saved    %total-saved    deduplicated    %deduplicated    compressed    %compressed

/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/      165GB             133GB             45%           133GB              45%           0GB             0%

 

df -h -A

Aggregate                total       used      avail capacity

aggr0                   7347GB     4203GB     3143GB      57%

aggr0/.snapshot            0TB        0TB        0TB     ---%

aggr1                   4408GB     2764GB     1643GB      63%

aggr1/.snapshot            0TB        0TB        0TB     ---%

 

aggr show_space -h

 

Aggregate 'aggr1'

 

    Total space    WAFL reserve    Snap reserve    Usable space       BSR NVLOG           A-SIS          Smtape

         4898GB           489GB             0KB          4408GB             0KB            15GB             0KB

 

Space allocated to volumes in the aggregate

 

Volume                          Allocated            Used       Guarantee

nas_ist_wdtd_01                     189GB           169GB            none

vfvol1                              100GB           361MB          volume

nas_xca02_ha_0001                    12MB          8892KB            none

nas_xca02_wos_0001                  150GB           149GB            none

nas_xca02_trt_0001                  100GB            98GB            none

n2_n0536_eci02_orasb01              430GB           426GB            none

n2_n0536_eci02_03                  1776GB          1760GB            none

 

Aggregate                       Allocated            Used           Avail

Total space                        2749GB          2603GB          1643GB

Snap reserve                          0KB             0KB             0KB

WAFL reserve                        489GB            51GB           438GB

 

  

Snapmirror Destination:

 

vol size

vol size: Flexible volume 'nas_ist_wdtd_01' has size 4t.

 

df -h

/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/     3891GB       10GB     1320GB      66%  /vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/

/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/.snapshot      204GB        0TB      204GB       0%  /vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/.snapshot

 

df -h -S

Filesystem                used       total-saved    %total-saved    deduplicated    %deduplicated    compressed    %compressed

/vol/nas_ist_wdtd_01/       10GB            3459MB             25%          3459MB              25%           0MB             0%

 

df -h -A

Aggregate                total       used      avail capacity

aggr0                   8082GB     5772GB     2309GB      71%

aggr0/.snapshot            0TB        0TB        0TB     ---%

aggr1                   8816GB     7496GB     1320GB      85%

aggr1/.snapshot            0TB        0TB        0TB     ---%

 

 

aggr show_space -h

Aggregate 'aggr1'

 

    Total space    WAFL reserve    Snap reserve    Usable space       BSR NVLOG           A-SIS          Smtape

         9796GB           979GB             0KB          8816GB             0KB            76GB             0KB

 

Space allocated to volumes in the aggregate

 

Volume                          Allocated            Used       Guarantee

vfvol1                              101GB          1362MB          volume

nas_ist_wdtd_01                      40GB            16GB            file

nas_ist_wdtr_01                     192GB           171GB            none

fc_bakprdinfl015_data               291GB           290GB            none

nas_inf_sdtd_03                    1047GB          1040GB            none

nas_xsa02_ha_0001                    14MB            10MB            none

nas_xsa02_wos_0001                  454GB           452GB            none

nas_xsa02_trt_0001                  162GB           160GB            none

fc_bakprdinfl011_data_r2            854GB           619GB          volume

nas_inf_sdtd_04                    1317GB          1310GB            none

nas_esi02_adtd_01                  1394GB          1386GB            file

nas_esi02_adtd_02                  1379GB          1372GB            file

fc_bakprdinfl015_nsr_temp           183GB           182GB            none

 

Aggregate                       Allocated            Used           Avail

Total space                        7419GB          7004GB          1320GB

Snap reserve                          0KB             0KB             0KB

WAFL reserve                        979GB           104GB           875GB

 

I can no longer open a ticket for this array as this is old (FAS3140) and currently no longer have maintenance as we are planning to migrate the data to a newer filer.

 

Thanks,

jmp

aborzenkov
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Your volume is thin provisioned with virtual size almost equal to aggregate size. So it can have only as much free space as aggregate has. Must other volumes are thin provisioned too, so any change in consumed capacity on any volume will affect all of them.

jmpal
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Hi aborzenkov,

 

Thank you for pointing this out. This answers the question of the missing capacity. It can only show what the max free space the aggregate can offer.

 

Appreciate your help!!!

 

regards,

jmp

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