Reclaim free space on 3par

[dpx]

Hi Experts,

I need your suggestions, how i can reclaim free space on CPG's [FC,SSD] .

3par storage 8440, vcenter 5.5, 6.0

Do we have a new document related reclaim free space? i've read many posts on this community but most of them are old as technology changed [by version :P] are we still using sdelete on windows and UNMAP on vmware -in order to reclaim free space.

Please share your thoughts.

many thanks

dpx

[yapkl · Accepted solution]

Have a look at these documents, they give you detailed information on reclaiming space for VMware (look for keyword "unmap")

http://h20565.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c03290624

http://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/getpdf.aspx/4AA4-3286ENW.pdf

https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2057513

https://www.hpe.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-8987ENW.pdf

For physical Windows 2008 hosts, you can give this a try:

http://www.antemeta.fr/en/Reclaim-Tool

and if you move to 6.5 in the future, the unmap can be automatic!

https://community.hpe.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block/HPE-3PAR-StoreServ-Is-Ready-VMware-Announces-vSphere-6-5/ba-p/6908811

[yapkl]

and on a separate topic, if your 3PAR is calling home (and under support) to HPE, you can also use https://www.storefrontremote.com to get analytics of your 3PAR, along with some recommendations and alerts (if any).