Thin Provisioning in netapp 7-mode

Thin Provisioning is an efficient way to provision storage, because the storage is not all pre-allocated up front. In other words, when a volume or LUN is created using thin provisioning, no space on the storage system is used. The space remains unused until data is written to the LUN or the volume, at which time only enough space to store the data will be used.

Thin Provisioning there need to be enabling some options and they are mentioned below:

you have to use below commands or you can use system manger.

·         Aggregate

-         Snapshot Reserve

·         Volume

-         Autosize

-         Snapshot Autodelete

-         SNAP reserve

-         Space Guarantee

·         LUN

-         Overwrite Reserve

-         LUN Reservation

vol create <volume_name> -s none  <aggr_name> size

vol options <volume_name> fractional_reserve 0

vol autosize <<volume_name> on

vol autosize <volume_name> -m <growth_size>

vol options <volume_name> try_first volume_grow

snap reserve <volume_name>0

snap autodelete <volume_name> no

lun set reservation <volume>/<qtree>/<lun_name.lun> disable

if enable above options, then it will become complete thin provisioned.

If your using system manger select volume then go for edit. you find the options