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HP LeftHand P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software User Manual

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Changing configuration characteristics to manage space

Options for managing space on the cluster include

Changing snapshot retention—retaining fewer snapshots requires less space

Changing schedules to snapshot a volume—taking snapshots less frequently requires less
space

Deleting volumes or moving them to a different cluster

NOTE:

Deleting files on a file system does not free up space on the SAN volume. For more

information, see

“Block systems and file systems” (page 152)

. For file-level capacity management,

use application or file system-level tools.

154 Provisioning storage

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