Lun size similar to volume size

[Willybobs27]

I have an underspecced system.

Can I make the LUN sizes close to the volume sizes if I don't use snapshots?

i.e use all the storage with little overhead.

This is for Windows and VMware hosts.

[arunchak]

Hi,

I think you can. See here:

I created a volume of 60m:

[root@shoemaker-rhel6x64-01 ~]# ssh sin vol size volt

root@sin's password:

vol size: Flexible volume 'volt' has size 60m.

Set snap reserve to 0%

[root@shoemaker-rhel6x64-01 ~]# ssh sin snap reserve volt

root@sin's password:

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

Tried to create a LUN of 60m with no reserve:

[root@shoemaker-rhel6x64-01 ~]# ssh sin lun create -s 60m -t windows -o noreserve  /vol/volt/lunt

root@sin's password:

lun create: created a LUN of size:   62.8m (65802240)

Hope this is useful

Thanks,

  Arun

[cyberhic228]

We do the same thing that Arun explained above and it works great.  This makes it nice so you can see amount of data in the LUN as if it were a volume using the "df" command.  Just remember that LUN's don't decrease in size when you delete data out of them so this is really a high water mark.

Good Luck,

-Ben