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Can a Virtual Volume be changed from Thick to Thin?

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 11:17 am
by 3PARNOFEAR
I got the Thin provisioning license after VV's were created.
Can I convert the volumes from Full to Thin?

also, what does the Compact CPG feature do?

thanks,
Igal

Re: Can a Virtual Volume be changed from Thick to Thin?

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:23 pm
by Christian
You can convert thick to thin and the other way around. This can be done without any downtime on the volume exported to the host.

Compact CPG is used to reclaim space from a CPG.

If you have a volume inside a CPG thick or thin and you delete the volume then you can run Compact CPG to reclaim space from that CPG , it can also be used with zero detect and tppv to reclaim free space from volumes.

Re: Can a Virtual Volume be changed from Thick to Thin?

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:26 pm
by 3PARNOFEAR
Thanks Christian,

can you pls elaborate on how to perform the conversion, say from Full to Thin?

thanks,
Igal

Re: Can a Virtual Volume be changed from Thick to Thin?

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:43 am
by Christian
Hello

Seems like you have to have 3.1.2 in order to do so , its not any earliere releases so that might be why your not seeing it.

It can be done using the tunevv command or from GUI if your running IMC 4.3.

Best Regards Christian