topic EVA6000 with Command View v7.0 in Disk Enclosures

EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

Brian Axford — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:36:30 GMT

I just upgraded to Command View v7.0 and now have the ability to shrink a vdisk. Can this be done with a Windows Server 2003 volume? Is it data destructive?

Re: EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

Jonathan Harris_3 — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:54:24 GMT

Data shrinkage is really designed for future use. It will be supported by Longhorn, but won't work with W2K3.

Re: EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

KurtG — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:00:00 GMT

You can shrink youre lun but it does not take care of youre partition.

In other words, be VERY careful ;-)

KurtG

Re: EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

Brian Axford — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:15:23 GMT

I did some testing with a temp vdisk. Definitely something you don't want to do with Windows Server 2003 if you want to keep the data!

Re: EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

Víctor Cespón — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:33:14 GMT

Anticipating a question I'll surely have from my partners or customers... Besides Windows server 2008, what other operating systems support LUN shrinking?

Re: EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

KurtG — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:02:46 GMT

I would actually be possible to shrink partition with spesialized tools as a manual step. (Partiton magic etc). Then do a lun shrink in CV EVA.

However I would not recomend it ;-)

KurtG