Thanks for the reply. We have run REPAIR OCCUPANCY numerous times now and it has "adjusted" total reporting occupancy by* -100TB*. This is very concerning since our IBM license is storage/TB based and 100TB makes a lot of difference/required us to increase our license.
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 5:02 AM Josh-Daniel Davis <xami...@gmail.com> wrote: > I mean, it's formally in a whitepaper from 2018, > > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/repair-occupancy-repair-reporting-occupancy-storage-pool > > and dsmserv was updated in 2021 to allow this to run on a container pool. > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/IT15373 > > It's not normal maintenance, but for a server that's been around a long > time, it should be fine to run it. > Just make sure you're not running expire, replicate, client backups, and > ideally not a DBB at the same time. > > With friendly Regards, > Josh-Daniel S. Davis > > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 8:01 AM Zoltan Forray <zfor...@vcu.edu> wrote: > > > Linux Server 8.1.14.200 > > > > Looking for feedback on this "undocumented" (i.e. not in a book but > readily > > available via Google search) command. > > > > We have been seeing lots of wacky occupancy numbers, issues with nodes > > reporting something in stgpools that are empty, etc. I stumbled upon > > REPAIR OCCUPANCY and it has corrected a lot of occupancy reporting > issues. > > > > So far running it against 3-nodes has reduced "reporting occupancy" by > over > > 10TB. This is disconcerting since we do billing via occupancy numbers > and > > this will make all of the numbers questionable! > > > > My question is, how safe is this command? Does anyone else run REPAIR > > OCCUPANCY and if so, how frequently? > > > > -- > > *Zoltan Forray* > > Enterprise Data Protection Administrator > > VMware Systems Administrator > > Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms Team > > VCU Infrastructure Services > > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > > < > > > https://www.credly.com/badges/131d9645-79f0-49ec-9f29-41f15900dca7/public_url > > > > > > -- *Zoltan Forray* Enterprise Data Protection Administrator VMware Systems Administrator Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms Team VCU Infrastructure Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
