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Can we reduce the size of the flex volume online?

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    May 15, 2025
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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Flex Volume
  • Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)

Answer

  • Considerations before reducing volume size
  • Yes. the Flex Volume size can be online reduced.
  • The volume can be reduced to a desired size if the current used size of the volume is less than the desired size. 
  • For example, to reduce a volume size from 14 TB to 6 TB- ensure that the used size of the volume is less than 6TB.

Additional Information

How to resize volume

 

 

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