I'm using snapshots on NFS volumes that are being used as VMware datastores. VMware sees a datastore size of 4TB. The NetApp volume itself is 5TB, so that the extra 1TB of space can be used for snapshots. However, it seems that even though snapshots are only 200TB, they are reducing the free space available in the VMware datastore. What could be causing this and what setting in NetApp controls this?
Thanks!