SELECT: reclaiming capacity after disk detach
Applies to
- NetApp ONTAP Select
- NetApp ONTAP Select Deploy
- VMware ESXi
- HW RAID
Issue
Removing disks outside of the Deploy tool will result in unreclaimed capacity. Example:
- Single node cluster deployed using 2TB (2x1TB disks):
(ONTAPdeploy) node storage disk show -cluster-name lgabor_cl1 -node-name lgabor_cl1-01
+----------------------+--------------+----------+-------------+------------+
| Name | Logical Name | Capacity | Pool | ONTAP Name |
+----------------------+--------------+----------+-------------+------------+
| lgabor_cl1-01_4.vmdk | - | 1 TB | Datastore 2 | - |
| lgabor_cl1-01_5.vmdk | - | 1 TB | Datastore 2 | - |
+----------------------+--------------+----------+-------------+------------+
- When the disk is not detached correctly, the changes won`t get properly updated in the Deploy utility and capacity will not be reclaimed:
(ONTAPdeploy) node storage disk show -cluster-name lgabor_cl1 -node-name lgabor_cl1-01
+----------------------+--------------+----------+-------------+------------+
| Name | Logical Name | Capacity | Pool | ONTAP Name |
+----------------------+--------------+----------+-------------+------------+
| lgabor_cl1-01_4.vmdk | - | 1 TB | Datastore 2 | - |
| lgabor_cl1-01_5.vmdk | - | 1 TB | Datastore 2 | - |
+----------------------+--------------+----------+-------------+------------+