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Nimble Snapshot Size

 
nimuser
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Nimble Snapshot Size

Hi,

I am looking to find size of each snapshot of a volume and also understand how the size of each snapshot is determined? I was sent info like the following, I am trying to understand what the total size of the each snapshot is and how much of a physical space is being occupied by each.

--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+-------+------------

Volume               Snapshot             Size       Online Status  New Data

Name                 Name                 (MiB)                     (MiB)

--------------------+--------------------+----------+------+-------+------------

A       AdhocSnap              2306867 No     Okay          7317

A      A1-2020-10-15::18:00:21.642    2306867 No     Okay         27372

A       A1-2020-10-14::18:00:22.631    2306867 No     Okay         37534

A       A1-2020-10-13::18:00:29.959    2306867 No     Okay        560692

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Sheldon Smith
HPE Pro

Re: Nimble Snapshot Size

Have you read the chapter on Snapshots in the Nimble Administration Guide? Available at InfoSight.

After that, look at the Command Reference, starting with the snap command.


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nimuser
New Member

Re: Nimble Snapshot Size

Hello Sheldon,

Thank you for your response. I do not have access to InfoSight, I registered there but my email is not linked to my org's Nimble.  Can that be shared with me?

Nick_Dyer
Honored Contributor

Re: Nimble Snapshot Size

Hello

the right way to get access to the Nimble docs are through Infosight. Please give Nimble Support a quick call and they can resolve this for you.

Phone numbers: https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=a00050207enw

Referring more to your question - Nimble snapshots are redirect on write rather than full copies of your data (ie copy on write). This means that a snapshot is just a metadata file with pointer references to blocks on your array. A Nimble block on your array can be pointed to by many snapshots, but none of those snapshots actually 'own' the data - in esscence not duplicating the data behind the scenes, but also meaning that the size of the snapshot is fluid.

Nick Dyer
twitter: @nick_dyer_