ONTAP SAN ASA VMware reports no space for Virtual Disk but with free space available
Applies to
- NetApp ASA r2
- ONTAP version 9.16.1P6 ASAR2
- VMware ESXi 8.0.3, vCenter 8.0.3
Issue
- VMware Datastore inaccessible during migrations and after a change in the backup configuration
- VMware virtual machine fails to start with "no more space for virtual disk"
- Storage may report aggregate out of space
- No thick or eager zeroed virtual disk / VMDK
cluster1::*>rows 0;cluster space show
cluster1::*>Total Cluster Available: 379.1GB
cluster1::*> volume show -vserver svm1 -fields node,aggregate,physical-used,available
vserver volume aggregate available node physical-used
------- ------ -------------- --------- ----------- -------------
svm1 d1_1 dataFA_4_p0_i1 216.7GB cluster1-02 84.66MB
svm1 d2_1 dataFA_2_p0_i1 162.6GB cluster1-01 82.23MB
svm1 sql1data_1 dataFA_4_p0_i1 216.7GB cluster1-02 128.8MB
cluster1::*> lun show -vserver svm1 -fields size,physical-used,node,storage-availability-zone
vserver path size node physical-used storage-availability-zone
------- ---- ---- ----------- ------------- ---------------------------
svm1 d1_1 15GB cluster1-02 3.25MB storage_availability_zone_0
svm1 d2_1 10GB cluster1-01 2.31MB storage_availability_zone_0
svm1 sql1data_1 10GB cluster1-02 50.08MB storage_availability_zone_0
cluster1::*> lun show -vserver svm1 -fields size,physical-used,node,aggregate
vserver path size node physical-used aggregate
------- ---- ---- ----------- ------------- --------------
svm1 d1_1 15GB cluster1-02 3.25MB dataFA_4_p0_i1
svm1 d2_1 10GB cluster1-01 2.31MB dataFA_2_p0_i1
svm1 sql1data_1 10GB cluster1-02 50.08MB dataFA_4_p0_i1
MGWD Error:
aps.all.aggrs.full: All flexaggrs "dataFA_2_p0_i1, dataFA_4_p0_il" in HA pair will run out of space over the next space exhaustion window of "14 Days"
EMS Error:
wafl_spcd_main: monitor.volume.nearlyFull:error]: Aggregate dataFA_2_p0_i1 is nearly full (using or reserving 95%% of space and 0%% of inodes).