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Flexgroup member volumes give false out of space warnings

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Flexgroup

Issue

Flexgroup volume is exhibiting space warning EMS messages as seen:
 

Fri Aug 18 10:53:11 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 599048 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 6049538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 11:23:44 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 599049 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 6049538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 11:23:44 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 599050 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 60849538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 11:23:44 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 599051 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 60849538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 11:34:38 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 1089 in FlexGroup DA_ (fg-uuid 60849538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 14:12:59 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 1089 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 60849538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 14:47:52 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 599048 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 60849538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.
Fri Aug 18 15:06:16 -0500 [DC-01: FgGroupListTimer: fg.space.member.nearlyFull:alert]: Constituent 599051 in FlexGroup DA (fg-uuid 608449538-fe34-477e-9038-7ce2cf2d13d4) is nearly out of space.

However, the Flexgroup member volumes are not at the warning thresholds as seen in the corresponding ASUPs:

FlexGroup 0x802111E9 (DA)
* next snapshot cleanup due in 2019 msec
* spinnp version negotiated as 14.11, capability 0x1FF7F
* Ref count is 8
* ShouldEnforceQuotas false
* IsAnyMemberInNvfailedState false
* reaction -3.0, workload -1.0, activity level 0, cv 0%, width 16MB
* Rebalancing configuration:
    max_moves=25, max_threshold=20, min_threshold=5
    min_file_size=25600, max_runtime=31800, exclude_snapshots=false
    start_time=1689339970, stop_time=1689371770
Idx   Member L            Used      Avail Urgc  Target          Probabilities   D-Ingest Alloc   F-Ingest Alloc
--- -------- - --------------- ---------- ---- -------  ---------------------  --------- -----  --------- -----
  1     1089 L 3789075259  79% 4736430128   0%  13.10%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0
  2   599047 L 3332177051  79% 4203211697   0%  14.31%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0
  3   599048 R 3397707534  78% 4350367276   0%  14.14%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0
  4   599049 R 3353479635  81% 4092361918   0%  14.26%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0
  5   599050 R 3364704405  77% 4326905836   0%  14.23%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0
  6   599051 R 3369066545  77% 4330126776   0%  14.21%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0
  7   599052 L 2802234592  70% 3987725675   0%  15.72%  [100% 100% 100% 100%]     0+   0     0     0+   0     0

The messages show up at intervals of 1 to 3 days.

 

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