Hello Jeroen,

Here is a link to the Dell Storage Manager guide & if you look on page 174 it explains about space recovery for virtual environments. http://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/storage-sc2000_administrator-guide_en-us.pdf  

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello Jeroen,

When you login to DSM do you see the tab that says servers on the left-hand side of the window towards the bottom?  If you do is the server in the list?

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello Jeroen,

Do you have Data collector installed?  As I think you are logging in just using the IP of the controller and not using data collector to get the other menus. 

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello Sam,

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately i cannot find the "Server" view or the "Automated Space Recovery" option in the Dell Storage Manager Client (v16.3.1)

Best regards,

Jeroen

Hello Sam,

I've check again, but i cannot find the server tab :(.

I'm not seeing any tabs at all at the left-side. I only have tabs in the top. Summary\Storage\Hardware\Charting\Alters\Logs and that's it.

Best regards,
Jeroen de Weerd

One thing to mention is Snapshots hold on to White Space (ESX calls this Dead Space). Once you run space recovery it may take a couple of days to reflect the free space. Also, if you look at the Volume space on the 2020 versus the space in ESX do they match?

Hello Sam & Bob,

I didn't know that i needed the collector for that option, i've installed it and enabled the option.
Now let's wait and see.

@DELL-Bob Mi the space in ESXI matches the on in the storage manager.