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Few things you could do. &nbsp;If you're using two spares you could go down to one spare. &nbsp;You could also safely reduce vol0 to around 75GB unless it is full thus freeing up at least a 100GB. &nbsp;How many spares on each controller are you using?<br />
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Are you using deduplication on your CIFS, NFS voluems..and LUNs? &nbsp;If not configure this first. &nbsp;Keep like VMs on the same datastores for better deduplication.
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Few things you could do.  If you're using two spares you could go down to one spare.  You could also safely reduce vol0 to around 75GB unless it is full thus freeing up at least a 100GB.  How many spares on each controller are you using?

Are you using deduplication on your CIFS, NFS voluems..and LUNs?  If not configure this first.  Keep like VMs on the same datastores for better deduplication.

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Hi<br />
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I have a netapp filer 2050 with 2 controllers and 20x300gb disks. Currently one controller and 10 disks are configured for LUN which is used in our vm environment.<br />
The other controller has the other 10 disks and has been configured for CIFS access.<br />
Is there a way i can dynamically reduce the space on this controller and assign the space as LUNs so that i can give more space to my vm environment?<br />
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Thanks<br />
JP
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Hi

I have a netapp filer 2050 with 2 controllers and 20x300gb disks. Currently one controller and 10 disks are configured for LUN which is used in our vm environment.
The other controller has the other 10 disks and has been configured for CIFS access.
Is there a way i can dynamically reduce the space on this controller and assign the space as LUNs so that i can give more space to my vm environment?

Thanks
JP

Netapp CIFS and LUNs

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.