This is a .. quirk .. in how ESXi and Equallogic interact. Basically, you can ignore what the Equallogic is telling you about used space; just rely on ESXi to report how much is used.
If you want, you can try to reclaim the unused space manually from ESXi. However, you CANNOT do this if you're doing any kind of Equallogic replication -- at least, not without turning off replication, deleting all of your replicas, and enabling replication again. "Simply, the array is Block level storage, and as such it cannot differentiate between a write and a delete, they all are the same to the array" -- http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/storage/f/3775/t/19499410 See also: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docType ID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2057513 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares Sent: Monday, October 02, 2017 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Linux-PowerEdge] Equallogic thinks iscsi target is full So I have a 5TB iscsi target created in a equallogic which is then passed to esxi. esxi is then using 3TB of that 5TB, but the SAN thinks I am running out of space. Why would it think that? _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge
