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December 11th, 2017 00:00

calculation for free space after VTL deletion

Hi there ...

Can anybody tell me how to calculate free space after VTL deletion?

Example ...

# vtl tape show all

Barcode    Pool      Location               State      Size             Used (%)    Comp   ModTime           

--------   -------   --------------------   -----   -------   ------------------   -----   -------------------

DD0001L1   Default   SCP_Admin slot 21      RW      300 GiB   298.0 GiB (99.33%)      1x   2017/04/11 16:00:18

DD0002L1   Default   SCP_Admin slot 21      RW      300 GiB   298.0 GiB (99.33%)      1x   2017/04/11 16:00:18

Delete aboveVTLs should make 596GiB ( may be bit less as Metadata need to be considered for 0.5% as per https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-31725) as Comp 1x . BUT in real life .... It only creates 446.8 GiB reduction of the space ... see below output after deleting VTLs.

Before Deletion ...

# df

Active Tier:

Resource           Size GiB   Used GiB   Avail GiB   Use%   Cleanable GiB

----------------   --------   --------   ---------   ----   -------------

/data: pre-comp           -   122833.0           -      -               -

/data: post-comp     7715.0     5864.3      1850.6    76%             0.0

/ddvar                 78.7        3.7        71.1     5%               -

----------------   --------   --------   ---------   ----   -------------

After Deletion of VTL

# df

Active Tier:

Resource           Size GiB   Used GiB   Avail GiB   Use%   Cleanable GiB

----------------   --------   --------   ---------   ----   -------------

/data: pre-comp           -   122831.5           -      -               -

/data: post-comp     7715.0     6311.2      1403.8    82%           455.5

/ddvar                 78.7        3.7        71.1     5%               -

----------------   --------   --------   ---------   ----   -------------

How come only 446.8 GiB is freed .

( if  Comp 1x is actually x 1.33 , it does make sense .. so would Comp 1x is round about in output display ? )

thanks

aya



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December 15th, 2017 11:00

It depends. It theory you will get some space back, but only if the other mtree's use no common blocks.  One way to find "most of the blocks" that will be freed, is to review your autosupports (have your SE pull daily compress blocks usage) by the VTL Mtree. You can then add up the used blocks over the retention period and get close.

Example:

      your daily backup is 10 TB, and after dedup and compression you write out - 500 GB to disk. If you hold the backup for 30 days the math would be 30 * 500 GB or 15 TB.   If you erased the VTL and all tapes, your would get at least that back.   everything over that amount would depend on shared blocks.

If your SE is too busy - I have some tools to pull the data for you.

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