EVA6000 with Command View v7.0

[Brian Axford]

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?

[Jonathan Harris_3]

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

[KurtG]

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

In other words, be VERY careful ;-)

KurtG

[Brian Axford]

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!

[Víctor Cespón]

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

[KurtG]

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