----- Original Message ----- > From: "Johan Kooijman" <m...@johankooijman.com> > To: "Nir Soffer" <nsof...@redhat.com> > Cc: "users" <users@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 < nsof...@redhat.com > wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Johan Kooijman < m...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
