Greetings I have a VMware environment attached to a 3par 7200 array. The array has 2 tiers, FC and SSD. My FC tier in particular I want to free some space by converting some of the VMDKs sitting on the FC_r1 cpg to the FC_r5 cpg. I believe to convert an entire cpg I can use setcpg and tunevv thereafter to convert the vv. I got that info here.
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2627(Change RAID type and name on CPGs)
I am not interested in converting an entire VV or CPG, I simply want to use svmotion to move some VMDKs from FC_r1 to FC_r5 and then recover the space.
I plan to do a svmotion from 1 datastore sitting on FC_r1 to a datastore sitting on FC_r5 and then running a compact cpg on the FC_r1 to reclaim the space. My question is will this work or will the LDs remain as RAID1?
Also my assumption is that if I svmotion from SSD_r5 to FC_r5 and then run a compactcpg on the SSD_r5 cpg I will reclaim that space. Is my assumption correct?
VMFS version 5.6 on all 3par datastores
3par Release version 3.2.2 (MU6) Patches: P99,P104,P107,P119
Thanks, 3par has quite a learning curve, apologies if these questions have been answered.