i am using FCP. not on NFS because worried about performance. I have the VSC installed but I am not seeing my datastore under netapp. netapp host discovery is queued. ... View more

is there a background process that reclaims unused volume space? my 500gb lun on vmware is empty but still shows 40gb used. i do not have snapdrive so I cannot reclaim it with that ... View more

should i do a fat volume and a thin lun on a fat volume? I am more concerned about what actual lun usage are from both storage and host locations ... View more

wouldnt this be a lot of wasted space on the filer? 2.5x? Its good to have space reserved but most of the time I would not be taking any snapshots. Its nice to have them when I need to recover something but dont want to waste too much space for snapshots. i really like the idea of disabling space reservation, that way the host and storage space availability looks the same and its consistent.  maybe I can leave fractional reserve at 20% or less for the snapshots. also what does the -s option do for creating volumes? -s none, volume, file thanks ... View more

but when i create luns, I dont use qtrees. I just create my volume and luns from the volume ... View more

i went ahead and resie vol0 on the aggr0. now thast I freeed up some space on aggr0. is it possible to shrink the aggr0? ... View more

i copied a vm to this volume. then removed it from the esx host, the lun is showing as empty but on the filer df -V -g myvol Filesystem               total       used      avail capacity  Mounted on /vol/myvol/            80GB       61GB       18GB      76%  /vol/myvol/ /vol/myvol/.snapshot       20GB       30GB        0GB     154%  /vol/myvol/.snapshot lun show -v /vol/myvol/foo         /vol/myvol/foo             50g (53687091200)   (r/w, online, mapped)                 Serial#: dfkpVZfRtWuT                 Share: none                 Space Reservation: enabled (not honored by containing Aggregate)                 Multiprotocol Type: vmware                 Maps: test=200                 Occupied Size:   30.3g (32552378368)                  Creation Time: Sun Sep 25 18:50:24 PDT 2011                 Cluster Shared Volume Information: 0x0 why is showing 61gb used and occupied size 30.3gb? ... View more

sorry i mean vol0? its ok to shrink that? do I need to run space reclaming? ... View more

you mean shrink aggr0? here is what i have now aggr show_space -h Aggregate 'aggr0'     Total space    WAFL reserve    Snap reserve    Usable space       BSR NVLOG           A-SIS          Smtape           827GB            82GB            37GB           707GB             0KB             0KB             0KB Space allocated to volumes in the aggregate Volume                          Allocated            Used       Guarantee vol0                                675GB          3120MB          volume Aggregate                       Allocated            Used           Avail Total space                         675GB          3120MB            32GB Snap reserve                         37GB           794MB            36GB WAFL reserve                         82GB          2363MB            80GB df -A -g -r Aggregate                total       used      avail   reserved  aggr0                    707GB      675GB       32GB        0GB  aggr0/.snapshot           37GB        0GB       36GB        0GB df -V -g -r vol0 Filesystem               total       used      avail   reserved  Mounted on /vol/vol0/               537GB        3GB      533GB        0GB  /vol/vol0/ /vol/vol0/.snapshot      134GB        0GB      134GB        0GB  /vol/vol0/.snapshot aggr options aggr0 root, diskroot, nosnap=off, raidtype=raid_dp, raidsize=14, ignore_inconsistent=off, snapmirrored=off, resyncsnaptime=60, fs_size_fixed=off, snapshot_autodelete=on, lost_write_protect=on, ha_policy=cfo vol options vol0 root, diskroot, nosnap=off, nosnapdir=off, minra=off, no_atime_update=off, nvfail=off, ignore_inconsistent=off, snapmirrored=off, create_ucode=on, convert_ucode=off, maxdirsize=45875, schedsnapname=ordinal, fs_size_fixed=off, compression=off, guarantee=volume, svo_enable=off, svo_checksum=off, svo_allow_rman=off, svo_reject_errors=off, no_i2p=off, fractional_reserve=100, extent=off, try_first=volume_grow, read_realloc=off, snapshot_clone_dependency=off, nbu_archival_snap=off snap reserve -A aggr0 Aggregate aggr0: current snapshot reserve is 5% or 39054424 k-bytes. snap reserve -V vol0 Volume vol0: current snapshot reserve is 20% or 140848264 k-bytes. ... View more

df -rh myvol Filesystem total used avail reserved Mounted on /vol/myvol/ 80GB 80GB 0GB 30GB /vol/myvol/ /vol/myvol/.snapshot 20GB 963MB 19GB 0MB /vol/myvol/.snapshot why is used 80GB? lun is 50GB why is reserved 30GB? ... View more

snap list myvol Volume myvol working...   %/used       %/total  date          name ----------  ----------  ------------  --------   1% ( 1%)    0% ( 0%)  Sep 22 16:00  hourly.0         1% ( 1%)    0% ( 0%)  Sep 22 12:00  hourly.1         2% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%)  Sep 22 08:00  hourly.2         2% ( 1%)    1% ( 0%)  Sep 22 00:00  nightly.0        3% ( 1%)    1% ( 0%)  Sep 21 20:00  hourly.3         3% ( 0%)    1% ( 0%)  Sep 21 16:11  hourly.4       ... View more

esxi 4.1 i changed the policy to rr and dont see the errors anymore ... View more