Ilya if possible, please share the script somewhere :) It would be usefull anyway, for cleaning detached volume that sits there for long time...
Thanks! @Marcus, I was detaching volume and delete it afterwards Thanks On 18 March 2015 at 22:38, Marcus <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I think many people will want to be able to leave disks detached > without deleting them, I'm not sure what the use case was that caused > Andrija to want to delete those disks. It sounds like he wanted to > delete attached disks and keep the vm. > > From experience, it would be relatively trivial to have a > 'deleteVolume deferred=true' parameter that simply marks the volume as > destroyed, then the storage cleanup thread will expunge it. The list > volumes api call would also need to be changed to show destroyed > volumes optionally, and there'd need to be a new API call that allows > you to mark the volume read again to 'undo'. This isn't much work but > unfortunately I'm not in a position to do that at the moment. > > The big issue is really that drilling down into members of entities in > the UI seems to be broken, whether it's "view volumes" attached to a > vm or "view instances" on a host. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, ilya <ilya.mailing.li...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It looks like we have 2 issues here. > > > > 1) you are seeing volumes you should not see > > > > 2) volume purging is not implemented > > > > There are several solution to #2 > > > > 1) I've written a shell script that deletes all volumes that are in > detached > > state for over X number of days. I'll see if i can share the script. This > > could be temporary solution run as cronjob periodically. > > > > 2) Marcus has written an API extension call that will delete the VM with > > volumes, slightly different API call needs to be invoked, something like > > destroyVmWithVolumes, the volumes will be expunged at the same time as > VM. > > Its not part of the cloudstack UI, but could be integrated - hoping > someone > > with UI experience can do that. The code will be committed upstream > > hopefully soon, there is some internal delay for releasing that, but we > will > > work this through. > > > > > > > > On 3/18/15 4:58 AM, Andrija Panic wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-7926 > >> > >> Currently I have hit a bug, when I click on some instance, then on View > >> Volumes, and then I get listed volumes that belong to some other VM - it > >> already happened to me that I deleted the volumes - beacuse of ACS bug > in > >> GUI ! > >> > >> So, I suggest to consider maybe to implement purging volumes the same > way > >> it is implemented with VM-s - so the VM is not really deleted - and the > >> purge thread in ACS will acually delete it when it runs... > >> > > > -- Andrija Panić
