Hello, I know this is probably something recurring, but I searched for a way to troubleshoot it and can't really find something like my case.   I have a thick provisioned volume of 25TB, containing some thick provisioned LUNs, no dedup nor snapshots (neither at LUN nor volume level). The sum of the space covered by LUNs is about 12TB, but the volume shows less than 600GB available. I tried some commands and it seems that the remaining space is "reserved" but not available...and I can't understand why.   Can you please help me troubleshooting this situation? How can I recover the missing 12TB? Thank you in advance!   Little prologue: on the same aggregate there was a volume where dedup was ON and its temporary files probably grew over the total amount of space of the aggregate. This locked two thin provisioned LUNs within the 25TB volume. So I resized these LUNs, and made them thick.   Some command outputs:   ::> volume show-space -volume vol_recorders_win_08 Vserver : svm_win Volume : vol_recorders_win_08 Feature Used Used% -------------------------------- ---------- ------ User Data 24.34TB 97% Filesystem Metadata 4.88GB 0% Inodes 52KB 0% Performance Metadata 28.21GB 0% Total Used 24.37TB 97% Total Physical Used 12.09TB 48%       ::> volume show-footprint -volume vol_recorders_win_08 Vserver : svm_win Volume : vol_recorders_win_08 Feature Used Used% -------------------------------- ---------- ----- Volume Data Footprint 12.09TB 40% Volume Guarantee 12.65TB 41% Flexible Volume Metadata 142.2GB 0% Delayed Frees 267.2GB 1% File Operation Metadata 4KB 0% Total Footprint 25.14TB 82%       ::> df -r -g -aggregate aggr_data_08 Filesystem total used avail reserved Mounted on Vserver /vol/vol_backup_vms_08/ 1288GB 0GB 1288GB 0GB /vol_backup_vms_08 backup_vms /vol/vol_backup_vms_08/.snapshot 227GB 0GB 227GB 0GB /vol_backup_vms_08/.snapshot backup_vms /vol/vol_recorders_win_08/ 25600GB 25037GB 562GB 12350GB --- svm_win /vol/vol_recorders_win_08/.snapshot 0GB 0GB 0GB 0GB --- svm_win /vol/vmcluster_ctn_nfs_data_08/ 3793GB 1574GB 2219GB 0GB /vmcluster_ctn_nfs_data_08 vmcluster-ctn_vms /vol/vmcluster_ctn_nfs_data_08/.snapshot 199GB 411GB 0GB 0GB /vmcluster_ctn_nfs_data_08/.snapshot vmcluster-ctn_vms           ... View more

Hi,   Do you have technical limitations in running the appliance with ext3?  We have been wondering why the appliance didn't want to start anymore. It was expecting a user input due to an fsck error on the root partition, hiding the output on a different TTY didn't help either!   An upgrade to ext4 would not be too much. Regards, Oli     ... View more

Need to evaluate Ontap Select on VMware. But before evaluating we need clarification on below: 1. Ontap Select is best suited for File based services or Block based services ? 2. Can we use the Ontap Select storage to Host VM's on NFS datastore ? What is best suited iSCSI or NFS for VM hosting? 3. Ontap Select VM appliance can coexist with general purpose application VM's or it requires a dedicated physical server ? 4. Does Ontap Select uses CPU reservations at hardware level ?  5. Does Ontap Select on DAS support VMware HA, DRS,vmotion,etc. ? 6. While using ontap single node cluster on VMware what should be RAID config ? Software RAID or Hardware RAID ? 7.Can we mount the NFS share provided by the ONtap Select VM appliance on base Hypervisor (ESXi) Host on which the appliance itself is residing ? What is the recommendation from Netapp in such case? 8.Can we run OTS appliance alongside with DB VM's or workload intensive VM's hosting latency sensitive applications ? What is the suggested protocol for DB VM's / NFS or iSCSI ? What should be the network bandwidth used for the OTS Data traffic 10Gb or 1 Gb nics ? What are the recommendations for shared network storage in OTS ? 9.How the failover scenario take care of the OTS Appliance ? What will be the status of runnning VM's if OTS appliance goes down ? What will be the status of VM's if the Host goes down. ... View more

Latest  Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere only supports up to vSphere 6.7 For a while now VMWare went to vSphere version 7. What is the ETA for a new version of  Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere and a NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI  that supports vSphere 7 ? In a demo pool I implemented a virtual storage console on a vSphere 7. The VASA ( NetApp NFS Plug-in for VMware VAAI 1.1.2)  provider is installed on the ESXi hosts but showing as not being capable of hardware acceleration in the vSphere 7 client. The option to Rapid clone is not available. The virtual storage console is available and shows information inside the vSphere 7 client but there isn't much to do. It lost alot of functionality compared to vSphere 6.7 environment. ... View more