SCV NFS datastore backup mount fails by "not enough space in the given aggregate"
Applies to
- SnapCenter Plug-in for VMware vSphere (SCV) 5.0 or later
- ONTAP 9
- ONTAP volume is configured as thick provisioning (
-space-guaranteeoption is set tovolume)
Issue
- SCV fails to mount backup of NFS datatore fails by the following error:
Unable to mount datastores: <DATASTORE_NAME> in Backup: <NUMBER>. Failed to create volume clone for volume<SVM>:/vol/<VOLUME>: Failed to create the volume clone. [failure]: Complete: Failed to create the clone volume on node. Reason: Request to create clone failed because there is not enough space in the given aggregate
- ONTAP volume clone create command with the same SCV backup Snapshot succeeds by specifying
-space-guarantee none
::> volume clone create -vserver <SVM> -volume <VOLUME> -flexclone <CLONE_VOLUME_NAME> -parent-snapshot <SCV_BACKUP_SNAPSHOT> -space-guarantee none
