Hi Fellow NetApp users and experts
We are using Data ONTAP 8.2.3p3 7-mode and all of our flexvols are presented as FC LUN datastores to our VMware environment.
We have a 1TB flexvol which is snapmirrored to a remote filer currently holding a few Virtual servers for our VMware cluster.
Over recent months we have decommisioned a lot of servers which were previously held on this volume and now the volume provisioned space is only taking up 80GB so my thinking is to recreate another smaller flexvol e.g. 100GB, using VMware Storage VMotion to move the remaining VMs to this new volume and then destory the 1TB volume however I want to preserve the current snapmirror relationships and move these over to the new volume so no baseline needs to be performed.
On the NetApp side the volume is showing still as 500GB consumed, it is a thin provisioned volume.
As we are using v5.0 of vsphere I know we could use disk reclaim tools to reclaim the storage back on the NetApp side but due to the size of the remaining VMs on the volume (about 75GB) I think it would be easier to recreate a new volume and its a real headache in the version of ESXi we are using.
I have two questions:
- Can I reduce the size of the flexvol and LUN dynamically using OnCommand Manager? Can I do this while the VMs are running? If this cannot be done
- Is there a process I can run on the filer to move the snapshots from old volume to new volume?
Many thanks