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Reclaiming space from ESX host in Clariion box
Hi, Some of the VMs were decommissioned from ESX box and we had provided storage space from Clariion box cx4-480 as a MetaLun. We are using navisphere management tool. How we can recover those storage space for the VMs which were decommissioned. Need help....
SabarnaDeb
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February 19th, 2013 04:00
Thanks
Vipin VK
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February 19th, 2013 04:00
You should have posted this discussion in https://community.emc.com/community/support/clariion?view=discussions .
If you dont need the data in the metaLuns, you can simply remove them from storagegroup and delete the MetaLuns and thus free up the diskspace.
ble1
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February 19th, 2013 04:00
I'm afraid this part of forum is related to backup. You will just have to ask your question then in CLARiiON/VNX forum instead of NetWorker one.
ble1
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February 19th, 2013 04:00
If you had backup, just restore it. Otherwise, no way.
SabarnaDeb
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February 19th, 2013 04:00
I don't think so this is related to Backup. "Recover" - i mean to say that reclaiming the storage space.
kelleg
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February 22nd, 2013 14:00
The metaLUN that you were using, do you want to remove the metaLUN or do you want to use the space on the metaLUN for some other purpose. Destroying the metaLUN would release that space on the array and add back into each raid group the space that the metaLUN Component LUNs used.
If you just want to take the metaLUN and give that to a different host, just move the metaLUN to the Storage Group of the new host.
glen
asceticenergy
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December 13th, 2013 11:00
Hi Glen ,
If the MetaLun is directly assigned to another storage group , will the data from the previous host still remain on the Lun ? Will the new storage group see the total capacity of the MetaLun or only the available space will be used ? or Will it simply overwrite the existing data .
Regards
Rajiv
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December 13th, 2013 12:00
if you simply remove MetaLUN (or any LUN for that matter) from one storage group and present it to another, data remains intact. If you are moving from one windows host to another, it will be able to read that data, view disk capacity etc. If you present LUN from a windows host to a Linux host, it will not know what to do with it (typically it does not unless you load utilities that can read NTFS). You will need to go into fdisk and delete that partition and create one that Linux understands (ext3/ext4)
asceticenergy
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December 13th, 2013 13:00
Thank you dynamox . Im clear now .
Cheers
Rajiv
SabarnaDeb
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December 26th, 2013 11:00
Thanks Dynamox