Considerations before reducing volume size
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- AFF/FAS systems
- SnapMirror
- iSCSI
Answer
- It is not possible to reduce a volume's size below the total amount of data it holds.
- There will be an impact of snapshots and compression on the amount of space that can be reclaimed.
- For iSCSI, If thin provisioning is used, disable space reservation and run space reclamation to free up space.
- If the volume is a SnapMirror source, ensure
autosize
configuration of SnapMirror destination volume is meet the requirement, or resize the destination volume manually.