We have an old Powervault that is having too many hardware issues (5-disks replaced in the past 2-weeks) and are trying to retire it. It was being used as a low-activity (nextstgpool after offsite copies have been created), deduped FILE DEVclass.
We have emptied it down to a few remaining volumes but can not get rid of those last 4-volumes. We have performed dozens of "move data" (both to a different stgpool and same stgpool) "move nodedata", reclaim stgpool, etc but we always end up with messages like: 3/8/2023 10:19:15 AM ANR3246W Process 28246 skipped 2 files on volume /powervault_pool_2/00061E69.BFS because the files have been *deleted*. and nothing being moved. Tried marking all volumes as READONLY but the moves simply recreated the existing volumes with the same unmovable/deleted objects. We have tried with both reconstructaggregates YES and NO. Occupancy by node shows crazy numbers (currently says this stgpool has a total *5.8TB* occupancy but only 4-partially used 120GB volumes remain). Tried running "restore stgpool preview=yes" with nothing to restore. Tried audit volume fix=no - again with nothing to fix! So what is the magic trick to completely empty this stgpool? -- *Zoltan Forray* Enterprise Data Protection Administrator VMware Systems Administrator Enterprise Compute & Storage Platforms Team VCU Infrastructure Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807
