Bumping this. I believe we need the imput of a VMWare expert, please. -Chris -- Chris Suich chris.su...@netapp.com NetApp Software Engineer Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat
On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Mike Tutkowski <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > OK, well, depending on if we can or can't get a VMware person to chime in > on this issue, we may have to disallow disks from being detached from > VMware VMs with snapshots in 4.3. > > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:44 AM, SuichII, Christopher < > chris.su...@netapp.com> wrote: > >> 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> >>> *™* >> >> > > > -- > *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> > *™*
