vmwarelicense123 , please read the article, it clearly states that this operation can be IO intensive and thus you should monitor the performance of the cluster while doing this (and obviously it is implied that you should stop/slow down if you are negatively impacting other workloads):
Performance Impact
This process does carry performance impact as IO must be processed to track pages that are no longer needed. The largest impact will be UNMAP's issued against the capacity tier directly. For environments with high deletions performance should be monitored.
No one can (nor should) respond to your question with 'Yes this is safe' or 'No this is not safe' to do in a production environment as this would be ignoring the multitude of variable that determine this. For example: whether your cluster is well configured and/or suited for high performance workloads, whether your cluster is already being pushed to the brink of its storage capabilities (this can also vary depending on what else is being done in the cluster e.g. time of day, backups running, large provisioning or database jobs), how much data you are unmapping etc. .
The only way you are going to be able to assess this is to monitor the clusters performance while doing a limited (and preferably quantified) amount of unmap operations, preferably done at relatively quieter times of day (if there are any) and when there are less other things that will be putting load on the cluster (e.g. backups, provisioning/migrations or anything else that is IO intensive), then once you have established this baseline (and have confirmed it is not having negative impacts for other workloads), increase the amount being done until you have a better idea of how much extra load you can put on this cluster. Also note that just because it has no/minimal impact in one cluster does not mean it will be the same for another cluster.
Bob
