I don't believe ACS knows the difference between ISCSI and VMFS. I'm using VMFS.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Sciarrino [mailto:chris.sciarr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 12:48 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org; Musayev, Ilya > Subject: Re: Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage > > Hi Ilya, > > Can you confirm that you are using fiber channel VMFS type as your primary > storage? I have tried enabling the storage.overprovisioning.factor in the > global settings previously and it made no difference. The docs show that > VMware storage overprovisioning is only supported on NFS and iSCSI, so I am > curious if this is working for you. > > Thanks, > > Chris > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> > wrote: > > Chris, > > > > Current solution is to enable storage.overprovisioning.factor in global > settings. Long term solution as per discussion with Edison, who maintains > storage framework, is to do real lookup of actual space. > > > > I'm in exact situation as you are, I've overprovisioned by factor of 20 > (maybe an over kill). I also rely on vSphere monitoring for space alerts. > > > > Regards > > ilya > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Chris Sciarrino [mailto:chris.sciarr...@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 10:21 AM > >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > >> Subject: Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have the situation where I have deployed a fairly large amount > >> instances of the same template. This has increased the amount of > >> allocated primary storage used to over 2.5 TB . However due to the > >> usage of linked clones I am really only using a couple of hundred GB. > >> The primary storage type is a VMFS datastore so I do not believe I > >> can overprovision it in cloudstack. The problem lies when trying to > >> deploy more instances it is failing because the amount I have > >> allocated is over the disable threshold even though I have plenty of actual > storage left. > >> > >> Is there any way around this? Or any way to make cloudstack see the > >> actual storage usage on the VMFS datastores? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Chris > > > >
