[ovirt-users] missing disk after storage domain expansion

Sat May 16 04:03:18 EDT 2015

Hi Andrea,

The OVF_STORE disks are disks which mainly being used internally in the engine to store VMs' and Templates' OVFs, you can disregard them for now.

The behavior you mentioned, that suddenly the disk has disappeared from the setup, sounds very weird and I would like to investigate this a bit more.
if you can please add the engine and vdsm logs, I can know what made the disk get removed from the setup, at the first place. 
Could it be that some one accessed the data base by any chance?

Regarding the disk registration, basically it should not create any problems unless, if your disk was deleted manually form the DB, and there are still leftovers related to the disk in some of the tables.
Once the disk is registered to the setup, you can try to attach it to the VM, and try to run it.

Regards,
Maor

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrea Ghelardi" <a.ghelardi at iontrading.com>
> To: "Maor Lipchuk" <mlipchuk at redhat.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 4:54:25 PM
> Subject: RE: [ovirt-users] missing disk after storage domain expansion
> 
> After querying the hosted engine with the suggested command
> https://pisa-ion-ovirtm-01/ovirt-engine/api/storagedomains/7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d/disks;unregistered
> 
> Indeed shows  a (unregistered?) disk
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <disks>
> <disk
> href="/ovirt-engine/api/storagedomains/7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d/disks/16736ce0-a9df-410f-9f29-3a28364cdd41"
> id="16736ce0-a9df-410f-9f29-3a28364cdd41">
> <actions>
> <link
> href="/ovirt-engine/api/storagedomains/7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d/disks/16736ce0-a9df-410f-9f29-3a28364cdd41/export"
> rel="export"/>
> </actions>
> <name>hertz_disk5</name>
> <description>disk for SYBASE installation, on SAN shared
> storage</description>
> <link
> href="/ovirt-engine/api/storagedomains/7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d/disks/16736ce0-a9df-410f-9f29-3a28364cdd41/permissions"
> rel="permissions"/>
> <link
> href="/ovirt-engine/api/storagedomains/7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d/disks/16736ce0-a9df-410f-9f29-3a28364cdd41/statistics"
> rel="statistics"/>
> <alias>hertz_disk5</alias>
> <image_id>4ab070c0-fb16-452d-8521-4ff0b004aef3</image_id>
> <storage_domain
> href="/ovirt-engine/api/storagedomains/7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d"
> id="7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d"/>
> <storage_domains>
> <storage_domain id="7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d"/>
> </storage_domains>
> <size>225485783040</size>
> <provisioned_size>225485783040</provisioned_size>
> <actual_size>225485783040</actual_size>
> <status>
> <state>ok</state>
> </status>
> <interface>ide</interface>
> <format>raw</format>
> <sparse>false</sparse>
> <bootable>false</bootable>
> <shareable>false</shareable>
> <wipe_after_delete>false</wipe_after_delete>
> <propagate_errors>false</propagate_errors>
> </disk>
> </disks>
> 
> I'm waiting for any comments on the two OVF disk or any advice before
> proceeding with the registering command
> (test in production environment hmmmmm)
> 
> Cheers
> AG
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Ghelardi [mailto:a.ghelardi at iontrading.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 12:30 PM
> To: Maor Lipchuk
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: RE: [ovirt-users] missing disk after storage domain expansion
> 
> Thank you for your reply!
> I'm unsure if the disk contained any snapshots. I do not think so.
> Is the register action a safe one to do in production system? I wouldn't
> mess any of my existing running servers.
> 
> Here the relevant logs from the date
> ./engine.log-20150501.gz:2015-04-29 16:10:40,868  : disk creation
> ("hertz_disk5" newImageId = 4ab070c0-fb16-452d-8521-4ff0b004aef3)
> ./engine.log-20150512.gz:2015-05-04 17:22:42,691  : last  occurrence of the
> imageid
> 
> Please note from
> ./engine.log-20150512.gz  2015-05-11 12:07:16,719 : creation of two disk OVF
> store (??) on the same storage domain 7a48fe46-2112-40a4-814f-24d74c760b2d
> right after the volume expansion
> 
> In the instructions.txt  what I did to enlarge the volume (and lose the
> disk) (the guides is informational only, I followed the steps on a different
> server)
> 
> Here some cats to thank you in advance
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTY41-zC7Y

lol :)
Nice cats

> AG
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maor Lipchuk [mailto:mlipchuk at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:02 PM
> To: Andrea Ghelardi
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] missing disk after storage domain expansion
> 
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> First of all, the issue sounds quite severe, can u please attach the engine
> logs so we can try to figure out how that happened.
> second, does this disk contained any snapshots?
>  If not, can you try to register it back (see
> http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain#Register_an_unregistered_disk)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Maor
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrea Ghelardi" <a.ghelardi at iontrading.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 12:01:17 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] missing disk after storage domain expansion
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok, so,
> >
> > After _ a lot _ of unsuccessful approach, I finally connected to
> > postegre DB directly.
> >
> > Browsing the tables I found “unregistered_ovf_of_entities” where there
> > is a reference of the missing disk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > @ovf:diskId:4ab070c0-fb16-452d-8521-4ff0b004aef3
> >
> > @ovf:size:210
> >
> > @ovf:actual_size:210
> >
> > @ovf:vm_snapshot_id:2e24b255-bb84-4284-8785-e2a042045882
> >
> > @ovf:fileRef:16736ce0-a9df-410f-9f29-3a28364cdd41/4ab070c0-fb16-452d-8
> > 521-4ff0b004aef3
> >
> > @ovf:format: http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse
> >
> > @ovf:volume-format:RAW
> >
> > @ovf:volume-type:Preallocated
> >
> > @ovf:disk-interface:VirtIO
> >
> > @ovf:boot:false
> >
> > @ovf:disk-alias:hertz_disk5
> >
> > @ovf:disk-description:disk for SYBASE installation, on SAN shared
> > storage
> >
> > @ovf:wipe-after-delete:false
> >
> >
> >
> > However, I’ve been unable to find any other helpful details.
> >
> > I guess the disk is not recoverable at this point?
> >
> > Any guru who has a good ovirt DB kwnoledge willing to give me some advice?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks as usual
> >
> > AG
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Andrea Ghelardi [mailto: a.ghelardi at iontrading.com ]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2015 6:08 PM
> > To: ' users at ovirt.org '
> > Subject: missing disk after storage domain expansion
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi gentlemen,
> >
> >
> >
> > I recently found an error on 1 of my storages: it was complaining
> > about no free space but the VM was running and disk operational.
> >
> > Since I needed to perform some maintenance on the VM, I shut it down
> > and at restart VM couldn’t boot up properly.
> >
> > Checked VM via console and a disk was missing. Edited fstab (luckily
> > this disk was not root but heck! It had a Sybase DB on it!) and
> > restarted VM this time ok.
> >
> >
> >
> > Since the disk resides on the dstore with no space, I expanded the
> > iSCSI LUN, then refreshed multipath on hosts, then resized PVs and now
> > ovirt is showing the correct size (logs do not complain anymore on no
> > free space).
> >
> >
> >
> > BUUUT
> >
> >
> >
> > Now disk is missing. It is not shown anymore on Disks tab nor anywhere
> > else.
> >
> > Problem is that storage shows 214GB occupancy (size of the missing
> > disk) so data is there but cannot find it anymore.
> >
> >
> >
> > Logs show original disk creation, errors from the lack of space,
> > refresh of the storage size and then.... no more references on the disk.
> >
> >
> >
> > What can I do to find those missing ~210GBs?
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Andrea Ghelardi
> >
> >
> >
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