Reduce Volume Reserve

Question

I have a total of 30.34TB of storage. Of that, 25.36TB is the Volume reserve. I'm not talking the Snapshot reserve. Is it possible to reduce this Volume reserve to open up storage space to create volumes or is the volume reserve tied to the current Volumes in use?

If it is possible to reduce the Volume reserve, where to do I click....?

I am on V7.1.8 (R414953) firmware

Thanks

acamurri · Answer

Hello Donald,

what about if I address all the space to volumes (Volume reserve 100%)? Of course I'm not going to use any snapshot nor sync functionalities, just I have to provide volumes to ESXi 6.0 VMFS5 storages... I confirm also that all the volumes are NOT thin-provisioned.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best regards,

Andrea.

dwilliam62 · Answer

Hello Andrea,

I'm not sure what you are asking. If you fully provision the volume it will simply allocate the entire size and remove that amount from the free space in that pool.

I.e. If you allocate a 2TB volume that entire 2TB will be allocated at creation time.

Snapshot space is allocated separately from actual volume space. So if you wanted to have 100% snapshot coverage you would need an additional 2TB of space in this example.

Regards,

Don

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