#LUN/Volumes on Ontap: Best Practices

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heady hull
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Hello everyone,
A technician told me that making a LUN no more than 80% of the volume size is a good practice. However, when creating a LUN, Netapp automatically creates a volume of the same size, so I wonder if this is really a good practice, or if the technician made a mistake?

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LUN/Volumes on Ontap: Best Practices

winged garnet
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with thin provisioning it doesn't really matter anymore as the free space in the aggregate is shared across all volumes anyway

heady hull
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In my company, we create Thick volumes on the aggregates, and Thick LUNs on the volumes as well