Monitoring Thin Reclamation using the vxtask command

This section describes how to monitor thin reclamation using the vxtask command.

To monitor thin reclamation

  1. To initiated thin reclamation using the following command:

    # vxdisk reclaim <diskgoup>

    For example:

    # vxdisk reclaim dg100
  2. To monitor the reclamation status, run the following command in another session:

    # vxtask list
    TASKID  PTID TYPE/STATE    PCT   PROGRESS
    171     RECLAIM/R      00.00% 0/41875931136/0 RECLAIM vol100 dg100

    The vxdisk reclaim <diskgroup> command runs in another session while you run the vxtask list command.