Copy space allocation different RAID to what was provisioned

slink · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 5:39 pm **Posts:** 77

I setup a VV on a RAID1 CPG and set the virtual copy to be on a RAID6 NL CPG however when I look at the settings for the VV the provisioning shows the correct RAID6 CPG but the allocation is all coming from RADI1 on my FC disks. How/why is this happening?

Richard Siemers · **Posted:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 12:06 am

What do the settings on your NL_r6_virtualcopy CPG look like?

slink · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 5:39 pm **Posts:** 77

like this

Richard Siemers · **Posted:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:23 am

Roger that, do you have any snaps yet that would use the Raid6 space?

Can you use command line/ssh to do a:

showvv -r Hyper-V_CSV3

Its should break out the capacity in detail like this:

-----------------------------(MB)-----------------------------
----Adm----- ----Snp----- -----Usr------ -----Tot------
Id Name Prov Type RawRsvd Rsvd RawRsvd Rsvd RawRsvd Rsvd RawRsvd Rsvd VSize
4001 VMLUN6 tpvv base 768 256 0 0 137088 121856 137856 122112 153600
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 total 768 256 0 0 137088 121856 137856 122112 153600

slink · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 5:39 pm **Posts:** 77

Thanks for helping me out with this. Yes I have snapshots for this VV being created. I noticed it on a CSV1 but I thought that was because I had originally set the snapshot CPG on the VV to be a RAID1 volume and then moved it to a RAID6 one so I thought it was an issue with the base snapshot being on RAID1 and not being able to be moved. But CSV3 I setup with the virtual copy CPG being the RAID6 right from the start but the VVs are still being created on RAID1 as pictured but I don't know how or why.

Here's the output from that command:

Richard Siemers · **Posted:** Fri Sep 27, 2013 3:15 pm

Good news, this looks like it might be a typo in the GUI. I am pretty sure that is suppose to be your ADMIN space, not copy space.

Here is what I see:

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IMC version 4.4.0.23

slink · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 5:39 pm **Posts:** 77

OK, that seems a bit weird though. Here's a different VV showing what I would expect:

But I think you are right, because in this view I can see the virtualcopy space is being taken from the RAID6 CPG so guess it's just a bug:

Richard Siemers · **Posted:** Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:18 pm

What version of the IMC are you using?

trireed · **Joined:** Wed Aug 21, 2013 11:40 pm **Posts:** 30

Are you using AO ? If so its possible it moved some hot Snap regions into the FC space. If your Snap space is part of AO then that is where I believe the confusion is.

slink · **Joined:** Wed May 01, 2013 5:39 pm **Posts:** 77

I'm using IMC Version 4.3.0.71. Maybe I should upgrade it.

Haven't enabled AO yet. Not sure I want to while I have lots of FC disk available.

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