Correct. #6 FAILS with VMWare and SUCCEEDS with Xen
-- Chris Suich chris.su...@netapp.com NetApp Software Engineer Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > I assume 6 fails with VMware, as well? > > Is Xen OK with 6? > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, SuichII, Christopher < > chris.su...@netapp.com> wrote: > >> FWIW, after looking into this more with Xen, when the VM is restored in >> step 4, it simply no longer has the volume attached, so this appears to >> really be a VMWare issue. Any VMWare experts out there know how we can >> handle this? >> >> -Chris >> -- >> Chris Suich >> chris.su...@netapp.com >> NetApp Software Engineer >> Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions >> Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat >> >> On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:05 PM, SuichII, Christopher <chris.su...@netapp.com> >> wrote: >> >>> We currently don’t allow volumes to be attached to VMs with snapshots >> and allowing volumes to be detached causes quite a bug: >>> >>> 1) Attach a data disk to a VM >>> 2) Snapshot the VM >>> 3) Detach the data disk >>> 4) Attempt to restore the VM from the snapshot — FAILS since the data >> disk is no longer there, although it is expected to be >>> 5) Attempt to re-attach the volume to the VM — FAILS since you cannot >> attach volumes to VMs with snapshots >>> 6) Attempt to delete the VM snapshot — FAILS since the data disk is no >> longer there, although it is expected to be >>> >>> I have verified the above steps on VMWare, however Xen does not appear >> to fail on step 4, presumably because VMWare handles snapshots quite >> differently than Xen. >>> >>> Does anyone else have any thoughts on whether this is a bug or not? IMO, >> on VMWare, this set of steps can get users into a state where they can no >> longer attach new data disks to their VM, so it appears to be a bug of some >> kind. >>> >>> -Chris >>> -- >>> Chris Suich >>> chris.su...@netapp.com >>> NetApp Software Engineer >>> Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions >>> Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat >>> >> >> > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *™*
