MammaGutt wrote:
Not sure how you are draining, but if you wait for reclaim, I can tell you that you're doing it wrong.
To answer your question without you adding any information about volume sizes, usr used and usr Rsvd, number of volumes on the system etc. You need to convert to full and than back to thin. Going thru dedupe will potentially just give you massive amounts of pain in this situation.
I recently "converted" an array of Vmware datastores from VMFS5 to VMFS6. Reclaim process on 3.2.2 MU6 with all patches cleaned up 2-5TB empty datastores in a couple of days clearing between 10 and 75GB per run per hour.
Thanks! I tested this out and it worked. TPVV with 181GB free space, converted to FPVV and then back to TPVV and now free space is down to 5GB.