Veritas Volume Manager reclaim activities are slow or hanging since upgrading from Storage Foundation 6.2.1 to InfoScale 7.4/8.x
Article ID: 100067480
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Description
Error Message
No error is presented.
Cause
Due to a code regression, the reclaim request operation gets broken up into smaller blocks and, hence, increases completion time.
Resolution
A supported hotfix has been made available for this issue. Please contact Technical Support to obtain this fix. This hotfix has not yet gone through any extensive Q&A testing. Consequently, if you are not adversely affected by this problem and have a satisfactory temporary workaround in place, we recommend that you wait for the public release of this hotfix.
The Product Engineering Team currently plans to address this issue by way of a patch or hotfix to the current version of the software. Please note that we as a company reserve the right to remove any fix from the targeted release if it does not pass quality assurance tests. Our plans are subject to change and any action taken by you based on the above information or your reliance upon the above information is made at your own risk.
Please contact your Sales representative or the Sales group for upgrade information including upgrade eligibility to the release containing the resolution for this issue.
This issue will be addressed in a future fix for 8.0. This article will be updated when available. In the meantime, please refer to Veritas Technical Support for the interim fixes.
Issue/Introduction
# time vxdisk reclaim emc0_0f4b; sleep 30s
Reclaiming storage on:
Disk emc0_0f4b : Done.
real 0m22.630s
user 0m0.358s
sys 0m0.843s
b) InfoScale 7.4/8.x:# time vxdisk reclaim emc0_0f4a
Reclaiming storage on:
Disk emc0_0f4a : Done.
real 0m54.876s
user 0m0.305s
sys 0m1.233s
Additional Information
