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Which reflects true storage usage in System Manager Tier Capacity or Volume Capacity since their sizes are different

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.9.1 and later
  • ONTAP System Manager

Answer

  • System Manager provides measurements of both physical and logical capacity.
    • Storage -> Tier page is showing the physical capacity of the storage and every aggregate usage.
    • Storage -> Volumes page is showing the Logical capacity of every volume.
  • Refer the document explanation for the Physical capacity and Logical capacity
  • The Tier page reflects the amount of physical space been used and left, the Volume page refers to how theoretical space can be used.

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