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July 10th, 2018 11:00

LUN was VMFS5, formated to VMFS6 not unmap

I have a LUN (thin) that was VMFS5 and grows to 9TB, but VMware only shows 5TB. Now, I formated (again) with VMFS6 but continue to show 9TB, I tried the command (esxcli storage vmfs unmap -l VM01), but Unisphere continue to show 9TB allocated, and VMware only shows 1TB.

May I have to destroy the LUN to recover the space?

Can reboot or OS upgrade solve the problem?

Thanks in advance

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July 11th, 2018 07:00

Might be easiest to just create another LUN, format as VMFS6 from the get-go, and svmotion any VMs over and destroy the old one.

~Chris

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July 11th, 2018 07:00

Are you using snapshots on the LUN, or replication?  Allocated figure includes host data, snapshots, metadata and so on.

July 13th, 2018 09:00

I did and solve the problem, thanks

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July 20th, 2018 11:00

Please mark your question as answered and mark which answer you used to solve your issue. This helps others looking for the same issue.

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