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December 3rd, 2008 14:00
Defragmenting RAID Group containing VMware VMFS drives
Hello all.
I have a RAID5 RAID Group on my CX500. The RG consists of 9 - 300GB 10K Fibre Channel disks. The only LUN's present on this RG are two 500GB LUN's that house the VMFS drives for our VMware ESX 3.5 Cluster. I would like to defragment the RG in order to reclaim 500GB of free space, but I do not want to do anything that would harm or jeopardize the ESX Cluster.
My Sys Admin contacted VMware, and he was told that it depends on the type of defrag that the Clariion system would perform. VMware Support asked if the defrag was at the file system level or block level. They went on to say that if the defrag was at the block level, then they would absolutely not recommend performing the defrag on this RG.
Does anyone have any advice on how I should proceed with this?
I have a RAID5 RAID Group on my CX500. The RG consists of 9 - 300GB 10K Fibre Channel disks. The only LUN's present on this RG are two 500GB LUN's that house the VMFS drives for our VMware ESX 3.5 Cluster. I would like to defragment the RG in order to reclaim 500GB of free space, but I do not want to do anything that would harm or jeopardize the ESX Cluster.
My Sys Admin contacted VMware, and he was told that it depends on the type of defrag that the Clariion system would perform. VMware Support asked if the defrag was at the file system level or block level. They went on to say that if the defrag was at the block level, then they would absolutely not recommend performing the defrag on this RG.
Does anyone have any advice on how I should proceed with this?
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