Hello there!
In the last few months our MSDP (thin provisioned) was at 80% of used space, so the logical steps was:
1 - Expire old backup images;
2 - Run image cleanup;
3 - Run compact on MSDP.
But here's the tricky part, our storage usage doesn't seems to go down.
- Compactation has been running for about 1 week now, and this seems a ridiculous long time for me, can't see any space reclaimed on 3par and the compact command there wouldn't show any space free for release. Now I have a ever growing MSDP disk with a stuck compactation that's not doing anything (I guess?)
Here's some info about it.
--dsstat returns me this:
- OpsCenter tells me that we're using about 11tb and crcontrol shows me 20tb (windows shows 20tb too)
- Can't run TRIM commands on this disk (system wouldn't allow it)
- We're still running this Media Server on Windows Server 2012 R2.
And you may ask me "69% usage isn't that much" and you're right. But take a look at our 3par.
The NL disk is almost full and, as you may guess, 30tb are for NetBackup and 15tb for VMware servers.
What can I possibly do from here? I'm really stuck and would appreciate ANY type of help from VOX :)
