Storage efficiency deprioritized on a volume
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.3 and later
- All Flash FAS (AFF)
- Automatic volume-level background deduplication
Issue
- Storage efficiency has been deprioritized on a large volume on the platform
- After turning on volume efficiency, the space-saving is not as expected
- Alarm received:
There are volumes that are >15TB's in size which have efficiency savings deprioritised
Triggered Alarm: There are volumes that are >15TB's in size which have efficiency savings deprioritised - warning
Alarm Description: “Volume vol1 in SVM1 is deprioritised and the size of volume is 110T”
- SiS log:
Mon Feb 27 13:06:31 CST 2023 [Vserver UUID: 42453882-d02c-11e8-8927-xxxxxx] /vol/volume_name [sid: 0] Info (ADS: Volume is deprioritized due to less savings)
Mon Feb 27 13:06:31 CST 2023 [Vserver UUID: 42453882-d02c-11e8-8927-xxxxxx] /vol/volume_name [sid: 0] Info (Dense auto-state was changed from "Change log enabled" to "Deprioritized".)