[ovirt-users] Delete disk references without deleting the disk

[Johan Kooijman]

Ok. Any way to do it without? Because with snapshot deletion I end up with
the same issue - I can't remove images form my storage.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Liron Aravot <laravot at redhat.com> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Johan Kooijman" <mail at johankooijman.com>
> > To: "Nir Soffer" <nsoffer at redhat.com>
> > Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 10:10:27 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Delete disk references without deleting the
> disk
> >
> > One weird thing though: when I try to remove the VM itself, it won't let
> me
> > uncheck the "Remove disks" checkbox.
> >
>
> That is because that there are snapshots for the disks, you can remove the
> snapshots and then you could
> leave your disks. Currently oVirt doesn't support snapshots for floating
> disks.
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Nir Soffer < nsoffer at redhat.com >
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Johan Kooijman < mail at johankooijman.com
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have about 100 old VM's in my cluster. They're powered down, ready
> for
> > > deletion. What I want to do is delete the VM's including disks without
> > > actually deleting the disk images from the storage array itself. Is
> that
> > > possible?
> >
> > Select the vm, click "remove", in the confirmation dialog, uncheck the
> > "Delete disks"
> > checkbox, confirm.
> >
> > > At the end I want to be able to delete the storage domain (which
> > > then should not hold any data, as far as ovirt is concerned).
> >
> > Ovirt deleted the vms, but is keeping the disks, so the storage domain
> > does hold all
> > the disks.
> >
> > >
> > > Reason for this: it's a ZFS pool with dedup enabled, deleting the
> images
> > > one
> > > by one will kill the array with 100% iowa for some time.
> >
> > So what do you need is to destroy the storage domain, which will
> > remove all the entities
> > associated with it, but will keep the storage without any change.
> >
> > Do this:
> > 1. Select the storage tab
> > 2. select the domain
> > 3. In the data center sub tab, click "maintenance"
> > 4. When domain is in maintenance, click "detach"
> > 5. Right click the domain and choose "destroy"
> >
> > This will remove the storage domain from engine database, leaving
> > the contents of the domain.
> >
> > You can now delete the contents using favorite system tools.
> >
> > Now, if we want to add support for this in ovirt, how would you delete
> > the entire domain in a more efficient way?
> >
> > Nir
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards,
> > Johan Kooijman
> >
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-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards,
Johan Kooijman
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