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We have some VMWare datastores/LUNs reported lack of space, we found we have some big SnapCenter snapshots occupied a lot of volume space, after we deleted these big snapshots, we see the free space on the volume, but how can i release the free space to the LUNs/datastores? thanks,
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My environment: The snapshots travel in one direction - to a warm site. VMware vSphere 7.0.3k NetApp Ontap 9.9.1p14 SRM 8.5 SRA.... this is the problem. According to the compatibility matrixes at VMware and NetApp, I upgraded my SRA's to an unsupported version. I had been running 9.7.1 and saw that 9.10 was available so I upgraded. I thought that I had read the charts correctly, but I obviously didn't. The adapters seem to work and I get green checkmarks everywhere I look, but when looking at the the SRM appliance, under "Array Pairs", one of my NetApp's show that the status for the transfers is "forwarding" (which is correct), and the other NetApp device shows the status as "Unknown". All of the other checks are green and snapshots are definitely being replicated on their respective schedules. The only error that I can find is this one "unknown" status. I have not tried to do a restore yet. In any case, I'd like to get my environment back to a supported state. I have found that I can unregister my SRM's which will take out my SRM's and SRA's Unregister the Site Recovery Manager Appliance (vmware.com) but I was wondering if I can simply unregister my SRA appliances and build back a supported version? I know that I can delete my SRA's in the SRM interface and then reregister them, but I tried that and what I ended up with was mish-mash where my adapter version is 9.10 (unsupported) and then it lists the install location as 9.7.1. Thanks!
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Not sure if anybody has ever come across the issue I am currently having but here goes. Currently upgrading VSC from 9.7.1 to ONTAP Tools for VMware 9.8 and has upgraded perfectly fine on the DR site, can ping storage array in SRM and SRA showing as 9.8 but when doing the same at the Prod site and re-scanning the SRA Adapter after the upgrade, Pinging Storage sits at 50% progression then times out after 900 seconds so will not ping the array at all. I can ping the array from each of the SRM/VSC appliances but it will not after re-scanning SRA. Everything is fine if I roll back to 9.7.1 and can ping array without issue, really starting to lose the will to live with it now 😞
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Hello everybody I am increasing the size of an nfs volume used with vmware datastore but when I increase it, the free space in the datastore does not increase, but the used space. Space Reserved for Snapshot Copies is set to 0% and Available Snapshot Reserve Size is 0B. Can anyone give me an idea of what's going on and how I can fix this? Thanks and regards
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Hi, Is there a CLI or an API interface for ONTAP tools (especially the VSC part of allocating storage + creating datastores) in order to automate the process for the creation of tens and hundreds of datastores for migration purposes? I couldn't find anything the documentations. Thanks!
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