[ovirt-users] oVirt-shell command to move a disk

[Jure Kranjc]

Hi,
any news on the subject? How do other users move many disks between 
storage domains? I believe not many people use quotas though..

On 13. 07. 2016 13:38, Juan Hernández wrote:
> On 07/13/2016 10:30 AM, Jure Kranjc wrote:
>> On 01. 12. 2014 14:40, Nicolas Ecarnot wrote:
>>> Le 01/12/2014 13:23, Juan Hernández a écrit :
>>>> On 12/01/2014 12:51 PM, Michael Pasternak wrote:
>>>>> not sure what sdk version 3.4.4 is, but according to log, latest
>>>>> official for 3.4 is 3.4.1.1-1
>>>>> (make you have it installed)
>>>>>
>>>> There are two issues here. First is that the "move" disk operation on
>>>> the top level collection isn't correctly documented in the RSDL
>>>> metadata. As a result the Python SDK and the CLI don't support this
>>>> operation. You can however use the same operation in the context of
>>>> the VM:
>>>>
>>>>     # action disk {disk:id} move --vm-identifier {vm:id}
>>>> --storage_domain-name={storagedomain:name}
>>>>
>>>> Please open a bug requesting a fix for this.
>>> Done!
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1169376
>>>
>>>> The other issue is that the 3.4 version doesn't support specifying disks
>>>> by alias, only by id. This has been fixed in 3.5.
>>>>
>>>> So, all in all, at the moment you will need a command like this:
>>>>
>>>>     # action disk c6aab66a-b551-4cc5-8628-efe9622c0dce move
>>>> --vm-identifier myvm --storage_domain-name mysd
>>> Your workaround is working : thank you.
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> i know this is an old thread but i need to move a bunch of disks from
>> one storage domain to another. I am unable to move disks with
>> ovirt-shell as it seems it does not support moving disks when quota
>> enabled and enforced on datacenter. Is that correct? Any help appreciated.
>>
>> ovirt shell
>> action disk 689ce8fe-0d40-47e1-a933-7bae5ed0812b move
>> --storage_domain-name NLSAS_PRIM
>>     status: 400
>>     reason: Bad Request
>>     detail: Cannot move Virtual Machine Disk. Quota is not valid.
>>
>> I can move disks normally via webadmin.
>> Using ovirt-engine-cli-3.6.2.0-1.fc23.noarch,
>> ovirt-engine-3.5.6.2-1.el6.noarch
>>
> Doron, Roy, internally the API uses the "MoveDisks" command to move the
> disks, and that action is marked as "QuotaDependency.STORAGE". Is that
> correct? Can you take a look?
>