[ovirt-users] ovirt vm disk space not release

smiling dream smiling.dream at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 05:31:13 UTC 2015


I mean vm internal disk space .
All of VM under thin provision . If i delete files and free space from VM
still ovirt stroage showing vm disk space is used . How to reclaim disk
space from guest VM .

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:19 AM, smiling dream <smiling.dream at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I mean vm internal disk space .
> All of VM under thin provision . If i delete files and free space from VM
> still ovirt stroage showing vm disk space is used . How to reclaim disk
> space from guest VM .
>
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhirter at triadic.us>
> wrote:
>
>> From what I understand, ovirt simply reports the available storage that
>> the NFS server says it is free. Ovirt itself doesn't control the storage.
>>
>> Under the storage tab click on the storage domain you're having issues
>> with and check to see if the images themselves have been deleted or if they
>> are still there. When you delete a virtual machine you have the option to
>> delete the virtual image as well.
>>
>> If a virtual machine has more than one image then I'm not sure how this
>> is handled as I've only used single images for virtual machines. Any
>> additional storage I need I handle over NFS directly to the virtual machine.
>>
>> Perhaps ovirt doesn't automatically delete secondary images? Either way
>> you should be able to delete them manually and reclaim space.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > On Jun 5, 2015, at 12:39 AM, smiling dream <smiling.dream at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I have ovirt 3.5.1 installed with VDSM 4.16.14 EL6 node and NFS as
>> storage . In my infrastructure i have multiple instance of centos / windows
>> vm under ovirt and once guest vm disk space is used ovirt is not release
>> guest vm disk space after delete .
>> > Looking for help .
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Suvro
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