Why is space not being freed immediately after deleting snapshots?
Applies to
- BlueXP
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
- ONTAP 9
- VSphere
Answer
When deleting snapshots, it will not free up space immediately. It will turn into 'unreferenced' capacity until the garbage collector has gone through to clean up the snapshots on the backend.
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