How to reclaim deleted VVs and Virtual Volume Sets

[Jason_B77]

Currently have a 3Par 7200 series running with 82 physical drives.  I have searched high and low but to no avail on how to reclaim the strage from a 6tb virtual volume we removed along with the Virtual Volume Set.  This was presented to a Windows 2012 virtual server (hyper-v). Can any help me out, Thanks in advance.

Jason

[Dennis Handly]

This should be automatic.  Why do you think it isn't being done?

The deleted VV space maybe held in the CPG for creation of a new VV.  You can try compactcpg to free it.

[Jason_B77]

Well I have seen no change in my totl compacity as well as my Allocated compacity I would think that my allocated space would go down and my total free space would go up but I have seen no change in any of them.

[sdmitriev1]

Run compactcpg as  Dennis Handly said

[sdmitriev1]

See example:

8200-test cli% compactcpg SSD_r5
Are you sure you want to compact CPG 'SSD_r5' ?
select q=quit y=yes n=no: y
Task 13200 started

8200-test cli% showtask
Id Type Name Status Phase Step -------StartTime------- -FinishTime- -Priority- -User--
13200 compact_cpg SSD_r5 active 1/1 16/103 2017-08-08 11:32:52 MSK - n/a 3paradm

[RajaS]

If your virtul volume is full provisioned, it will take some time to free space to be available in cpg.  SSH to the 3par storage and run command "showpd -c". Monitor the vaules under "uninit" column which should become zero with the time.