Namlehse wrote:
5.1 Doesn't do a very good job at cleaning up after itself. 5.5 is better, but it's still lacking. You do want to run the VMWare commands, though how often depends on you and your space issues. We went a year without any issues or cleanup, however recently we opened up hosting services to 17 or so business under us, giving way to.. explosive growth..
You really need tools outside of 3PAR to help with that (Depending on your size). We use SolarWinds VMware tools to keep track of VM's that have a habbit of growing and shrinking. I keep those on a VVol that has a chron job to free up space once a week, the majority of application servers however don't grow much, let alone shrink.
If you use snapshots (We use them extensively for backing up), you can use the "freespace" command from the CLI as well to reclaim copy space as well as admin space that's been freed up. I was able to reclaim around 10% of my space using freespace + compactcpg after using the VMWare commands you posted above.
I will also add that HP is very little help in this matter, If you have a good sales engineer to go to that's your best bet, they'll generally know more about what you're doing and how to fix it.
Maybe you can show me your script to run the command - first the script must calculate free space, and afterwards run the command - correct?