Thanks Adam.
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Adam Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I agree with Elijah. If you thin provision, at some point you're > going to have to pay the piper. If the LUN is full (I'm assuming LUN since > you mentioned SAN) then the only thing you can do is either delete stuff to > free space or buy more disk. > > Now, if you're running NFS, you might be able to free up enough space > yourself by deleting snapshots, assuming you're allowed to delete them. > You can also check the aggregate snap reserve, because depending on the > age of the filer, there was a time that NetApp automatically reserved 5% of > the overall aggregate space for aggr snaps, which pretty much nobody uses. > So, right there you can get 5% more space, but it's been a while since > they fixed that little feature. > > Also, you should check the size of the snapshots anyway -- even if you > have a 20% (or whatever) snap reserve, the snapshots can grow bigger than > that. If you have lots of snapshots, you can free up space by deleting > them. Note that you'll have to delete the oldest to free up all of the > space -- just deleting a snapshot in the middle of the list won't cut it. > It appears the previous admin had already completely disabled snapshots as he realized he was running out of space. Therefore, there is no space available whatsoever. I've tried moving a couple VMs from a LUN to somewhere else to create space but this didn't free up any space at all for whatever reason. I tried accessing things via SnapDrive but for whatever reason the disks are not enumerating on there. I read that this is a known issue with the version of SnapDrive we are on but I can't download a new version to update it since we don't have a support contract in place. Guess I need to hop on the phone and find out how much this is going to hurt the wallet. > > -Adam > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Understood - just exploring all alternatives before having to make >> demands to the business. >> >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Elijah Wright >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I think, that if things are already that bad, you're looking at having >>> to buy shelves anyway - it's time to pony up the cash for a support >>> contract to get NetApp to help bail you out of the mess you're in. >>> >>> Yes, not cheap. Sorry :( >>> >>> --e >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > HI, >>> > >>> > We're experiencing an issue with a NetApp SAN that I've recently >>> inherited >>> > (on Monday) as a responsibility and which I'm lacking a depth of >>> knowledge >>> > with. >>> > >>> > The previous sys admin thin provisioned everything and now everything >>> has >>> > overgrown and VMs running on certain LUNs are fully down due to there >>> not >>> > being enough storage available. >>> > >>> > >>> > Can anybody recommend an expert to help with this as we do not have a >>> > support contract in place? Obviously this will be at a cost - that is >>> > acceptable. >>> > >>> > >>> > Thanks in advance. >>> > >>> > >>> > -Evan >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Discuss mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> > http://lopsa.org/ >>> > >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> >> >
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