Hi Colin, Can you share more info? 1) what version of oVirt you have? 2) what was the VM state when you tried to remove the snapshot? 3) How the snapshot was created in the first place (the VM state was UP or DOWN)? 4) What is the status of the snapshot's disks (click on snapshot tab and on the right hand side you have another 'disks' tab)? Thanks, Raz Tamir Red Hat Israel On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi all > > I've just noticed that all VM snapshots on one of our prod RHEV setups > have gone read-only (i.e. delete is greyed out). > > Has anyone else seen this? > > Is there an easy fix for this? We have a bunch of VVMs being snapshotted > nightly with snapshots being deleted after 7 days. > > Thanks > > CC > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > >

I've just checked our dev and test RHEV instances (both also on v3.5.7), and found that the overnight snapshot script is working correct and is deleting old snapshots. A quick check of other VMs shows their snapshots do not have the delete button greyed out. I'm thinking there's something screwy with this prod RHEV instance. On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi and thanks for the response > > 1) RHEV v3.5.7 > 2) The VM was powered on and running fine when the snapshot was taken > (this is done through cron) > 3) The snapshot was created via a Python oVirt SDK script > 4) The status is showing "OK" for both the VM's disks and the snapshots > disks. > > As a test, I took a snapshot of another VM that was running OK. When the > snapshot was completed, the delete buttn was greyed out. > > I turned the original server off and found that the snapshot button was > no longer greyed out. When I turned the server back on, the delete button > is greyed out again. > > My API script that creates the snapshots also deletes the snapshot from 7 > days ago. I see that the last successfully deleted was on Jan 26. We > upgraded from v3.5.0 to v3.5.7 on Jan 24. Nothing changed on the server > after Jan 24 so I'm a bit stumped. > > Thanks > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Raz Tamir <ratamir(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hi Colin, >> Can you share more info? >> 1) what version of oVirt you have? >> 2) what was the VM state when you tried to remove the snapshot? >> 3) How the snapshot was created in the first place (the VM state was UP >> or DOWN)? >> 4) What is the status of the snapshot's disks (click on snapshot tab and >> on the right hand side you have another 'disks' tab)? >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> Raz Tamir >> Red Hat Israel >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I've just noticed that all VM snapshots on one of our prod RHEV setups >>> have gone read-only (i.e. delete is greyed out). >>> >>> Has anyone else seen this? >>> >>> Is there an easy fix for this? We have a bunch of VVMs being >>> snapshotted nightly with snapshots being deleted after 7 days. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> CC >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users(a)ovirt.org >>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >>> >> >

Hi Colin, What you are trying to do is live merge - delete a vm's snapshot for running vm. This feature might not be supported on some of your hypervisors because of vdsm or OS version. Can you please share the OS version and vdsm vesrion of the hypervisor that hositng the running vm which you cannot delete it's snapshot? A quick solution is to make sure you powering off a vm before deleting it's snapshot. Thanks, Raz Tamir