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What happens when reserved copy size fills up?

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:10 am
by mujzeptu
We have LUN's that are VMFS5 datastores and are doing virtual copy jobs daily. They are set to cycle out every 15 days but I have noticed recently that vcenter datastore migrations cause the reserved copy size % to balloon up fast!

What should I expect to happen as one now sits at 99%? What do others do to deal with these situations?

Re: What happens when reserved copy size fills up?

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:33 am
by Cleanur
Shouldn't matter. The reserved size is the size of the backing LD space a as percentage of the requested virtual size e.g it can quite happily exceed 100% and not affect you VV. Why a migration is causing the growth I dunno, but assuming a low enough change rate then zero reclaim/thin persistence should be able to defrag and claw this back over time.