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June 25th, 2019 13:00

volume growing every day - solution?

equallogic PS6100.

have two of them, one syncreps volumes to the other.

i have this one thin provisioned volume that I store some linux servers on.

this volume is growing by 3% every day for the last few days, up to  to 77% in use space now.

although I could just add more space to the volume ( I have plenty free), doesnt change the fact that it continues to grow.

not 100% clear on what causes the growth, but I think Eql doesnt allow you to reclaim space after it writes to block?

I have 13 VMs stored on this volume, total HD space for all of them is 904 GB.

Vmware shows 3 TB Datastore, 989 provisioned, 2 TB free.

EQL shows in-use 2.31TB, with 7.2 unreserved.

unless I change something, it will just continue to grow, so what are my options?

change volume so it is no longer thin -provisioned?

move everything to another volume?