Hello,
where can i read what happens if a volume has autogrow and would grow and the aggregate is 90% full for example?
Can i make settings to prevent that an aggregate becomes full because of autogrow vlumes?
#Volume Autosize
barren surge
modest apex
Hi Sandro, if autogrow is enabled, the volume will grow until the volume grow-threshold is reached or the Aggr has no more free space. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that not the entire free space of the Aggr will be consumed.
barren surge
Where can i send in an enahncement request 😅
rugged nest
yeah, the long-awaited "shelf auto-order" feature 😂
modest apex
thumbs up from your local account team 😉
compact drum
"Alexa/Siri, order another DS224C with 15tb drives"
your finance team will love that
barren surge
IMHO it is not right behaviour.
Automatic grow should prioritize System safety before Volume growth 🤷♂️
lyric oxide
Agreed here. without ensuring a certain amount of free space on the aggr, auto-grow itself could cause the aggr fillip that is not acceptable. That’s why we don’t use the feature.
rapid spoke
are you saying that you want autogrow to stop working and your workloads to fail because you're "close to aggr full"?
lyric oxide
Both situations are not good. Ideally, we would like to see an alert when autogrow stopped working. But, comparing to fill up the aggr, people would rather let the workload to fail. Make sense?
barren surge
If the aggregate gets full then all workloads fail.
rugged nest
If the aggregate gets full then all workloads fail.
only write workloads on that particular aggregate 😉
That being said, there are already notifications when your aggregate is filling up. In any overprovisioning scenario it is up to the admins to monitor space usage and counteract. What works as in one scenario (disable autogrow when the aggregate is at 90% capacity) might be completely wrong for someone else. If you want to play it safe, don't use overprovisioning (or prioritize deleting snapshots over increasing volume size)