Re: space reporting on AFF's with compression?

"Rue, Randy" <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jul 2021 11:51:09 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.netapp
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also, that pane says I'm getting 108X data reduction. Is that the new 
inline compression? And is that number likely to be accurate after 
NetApp promised us (in writing!) compression?

On 7/6/2021 11:42 AM, Rue, Randy wrote:
> OK, no responses to my below so let me ask a simpler question.
>
> The System Manager Dashboard's "Capacity" pane says I'm using 1.83PB 
> with 11.7TB available. That's clearly not accurate.
>
> If I click into the arrow in that pane I get the Tiers page and it 
> says my two Tiers respectively have 875TB used and 6.5TB available, 
> and 1PB used and 5.2TB available.
>
> What the hell are these numbers describing?
>
>
> Hope to hear from you
>
>
> On 6/10/2021 9:24 AM, Rue, Randy wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We're migrating from a FAS to a new AFF that has inline compression 
>> and a guarantee of 3X compression.
>>
>> I'm trying to convert a graphite/snmp graphing system that reports 
>> our overall aggregate space usage to the new system.
>>
>> A straightforward graph of used and free space on the data 
>> aggregates/tiers shows the right portion of space used but seems to 
>> be reporting pre-compression usage (and we appear to be getting less 
>> than 3X).
>>
>> The System Manager webUI says we're getting ~120:1 "Data Reduction" 
>> but it also says we're using 1.74PB and have 14TB available. In fact 
>> we currently have 48 x 900GB SSDs in two disk groups/tiers and about 
>> 40TB of actual unstructured data.
>>
>> Is there a doc somewhere on understanding space reporting with the 
>> new system including meaningful reporting of compression returns?
>>
>>
>> Grateful for any help,
>>
>> Randy in Seattle
>>