[ovirt-users] P2V shrink disk

[Alex Crow]

On 17/09/15 13:40, Alex Crow wrote:
>
>
> On 17/09/15 13:32, wodel youchi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am not sure if it's the right place to post this question.
>>
>> I tried to do a P2V operation of a Win2k3 server to ovirt 3.5
>>
>>
>> the physical server is RAID5 of 3x146Go configured, about 290 Go 
>> usable space, but the server uses about 20Go only.
>>
>> I am wondering how to shrink the disk of the migrated physical 
>> machine, do I have to do it before using P2V tool?
>>
>> The same question for Linux servers.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> I just use a parted Live CD. You can do it before or after, whichever 
> is more convenient. I normally do it after a P2V or V2V as it's so 
> easy to use an ISO image in Ovirt.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>

Actually that wouldn't work as such if you're P2V'ing straight to Ovirt. 
I'd suggest P2V'ing into Libvirt/Qemu-KVM, then running Parted Live on 
that VM. Shut down the VM and use qemu-img to shrink the image file, 
then do a V2V into Ovirt.

Cheers

Alex



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