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Insufficient free bitmap space

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If you receive the error CMMVC7160E "The change volume could not be associated because the I/O group has insufficient free bitmap space" (or similar) then you must increase the bitmap space. To do so, you must issue commands to the SVC. Open an ssh (putty, etc) session to the SVC. First, list the IO groups with the command 'lsiogrp'
    id name            node_count vdisk_count host_count site_id site_name
    0  io_grp0         2          285         36         2       A
    1  io_grp1         0          0           36
    2  io_grp2         0          0           36
    3  io_grp3         0          0           36
    4  recovery_io_grp 0          0           0
Then list the details for the IO group with the problem, for example 'lsiogrp 0'
    id 0
    name io_grp0
    node_count 2
    vdisk_count 285
    host_count 36
    flash_copy_total_memory 104.0MB
    flash_copy_free_memory 102.3MB
    remote_copy_total_memory 52.0MB
    remote_copy_free_memory 51.4MB
    mirroring_total_memory 20.0MB
    mirroring_free_memory 20.0MB
    raid_total_memory 40.0MB
    raid_free_memory 37.5MB
    maintenance no
    compression_active no
    accessible_vdisk_count 285
    compression_supported yes
    max_enclosures 10
    encryption_supported no
    flash_copy_maximum_memory 552.0MB
    site_id 2
    site_name A
Note the "flash_copy_free_memory". If this is at or near zero, then it must be increased.
Use the command 'chiogrp -feature flash -size xxxx 0' to change the size to xxxx megabytes, then use lsiogrp again to verify it was extended.
Then try your SVC command again (i.e. creating a change volume, etc).

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Modified date:
07 January 2020

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