Space Reclamation

The Space Reclamation page allows you to manage space reclamation activity on the DXi9000 Series. You can start or stop space reclamation. You can also monitor the progress of space reclamation activity.

During space reclamation, the DXi9000 Series searches the blockpool for tags that are no longer referenced and then deletes the unneeded tags to free up space.

In addition, the DXi9000 Series automatically compacts reclaimable space in the following ways:

Note: The current compaction status is displayed on the Home page. See Home Page .

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Space reclamation should not be run too often, and weekly is better than daily. Although you can run reclamation anytime, to make space available, the DXi runs best with weekly reclamations.

Priorities for running space reclamation (in order of priority):

  1. Maintain free space to prevent hitting "low space" (90% used).
  2. Choose a time when the DXi is otherwise not busy.
  3. The DXi runs more smoothly if space reclamation is not running at the same time as ingest or replication.

The space reclamation process can include up to four stages. See Space Reclamation Status.

New or Normal Mode To increase performance, when space reclamation is initiated on the Space Reclamation page or as a scheduled event, only Stage 2 (Calculating Deletion Candidates), Stage 3 (Deleting New Candidates), and Stage 4 (Liberate Logging) are run.
Low Space or Legacy Mode When disk capacity is low, space reclamation is automatically started to free up disk space. In this case, all four stages of space reclamation are run.

To access the Space Reclamation page, click the Utilities menu, and then click the Space Reclamation tab.

The General tab, showing the Space Reclamation Status page, is displayed.

The Space Reclamation page displays the following information about the current or most recent space reclamation activity:

Status The status of space reclamation. See Space Reclamation Status.
Stage Progress The progress of the current space reclamation stage.
Total Progress The overall progress of space reclamation activity.
Start Time The time space reclamation started.
End Time The time space reclamation ended.

Tasks

Use the Space Reclamation page to perform the following tasks: