[ovirt-users] Re: Thin Provisioned to Preallocated

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 2:26 AM Nir Soffer wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:35 PM Jorge Visentini > wrote: > > > > Hi oVirt land. > > > > Can I convert the disks of Thin Provision to Preallocated? > > We don't have a way to convert the format for the same disk. > > We should have this in

[ovirt-users] Re: Thin Provisioned to Preallocated

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:35 PM Jorge Visentini wrote: > > Hi oVirt land. > > Can I convert the disks of Thin Provision to Preallocated? We don't have a way to convert the format for the same disk. We should have this in future version, since it is important for incremental backup. The most

[ovirt-users] Re: Do distinct export domains share a name space? Can't export a VM, because it already exists in an unattached export domain...

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 1:01 AM Strahil Nikolov wrote: > > Thanks Nir, flr the detailed explanation. > Can you tell me with export/import data domains, what happens to VMs with > snapshots. Snapshots are not affected by moving disks to different storage domains. It copies the entire chain from

[ovirt-users] Re: Do distinct export domains share a name space? Can't export a VM, because it already exists in an unattached export domain...

2020-08-09 Thread Strahil Nikolov via Users
Thanks Nir, flr the detailed explanation. Can you tell me with export/import data domains, what happens to VMs with snapshots. Recently it was mentioned that snapahots are not visible after such migration. Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov На 10 август 2020 г. 0:00:36 GMT+03:00, Nir Soffer написа:

[ovirt-users] Re: Fail to upload image file after Replace oVirt Engine SSL/TLS Certificate

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 8:55 AM zhou...@vip.friendtimes.net wrote: > > I replaced my Certificate follow > https://myhomelab.gr/linux/2020/01/20/replacing_ovirt_ssl.html > Then I cant upload image files We need basic detail on this issue like oVirt version used, but this smells like this bug:

[ovirt-users] Re: OVA export creates empty and unusable images

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:37 PM wrote: > > Nir, first of all, thanks a lot for the detailed description and the quick > fix in 4.4! > > I guess I'll be able to paste that single line fix into the 4.3. variant > myself, but I'd rather see that included in the next 4.3 release, too: How > would

[ovirt-users] Re: Do distinct export domains share a name space? Can't export a VM, because it already exists in an unattached export domain...

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:00 PM wrote: > > After OVA export/import was a) recommended against b) not working with the > current 4.3 on CentOS 7, I am trying to make sure I keep working copies of > critical VMs before I test if the OVA export now works properly, with the > Redhat fix from 4.4.

[ovirt-users] Re: Support for Shared SAS storage

2020-08-09 Thread Nir Soffer
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 6:56 AM Jeff Bailey wrote: > > I haven't tried with 4.4 but shared SAS works just fine with 4.3 (and has for > many, many years). You simply treat it as Fibre Channel. If your LUNs > aren't showing up I'd make sure they're being claimed as multipath devices. > You

[ovirt-users] Re: Thin Provisioned to Preallocated

2020-08-09 Thread Strahil Nikolov via Users
In regular KVM thin disks can be made fully preallocated when you 'expand' them to the predefined maximum size. Usually I create a large file and then I delete it. Something like this: 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/mounted/qcow2/disk/largefile bs=4M status=progress ; rm -f

[ovirt-users] Re: Thin Provisioned to Preallocated

2020-08-09 Thread Eyal Shenitzky
Hi Jorge, Currently, there is no mechanism for doing this operation on the disk, but there is workaround such as: - Export the VM as OVA or to an export domain and import it back with the needed allocation method. On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 17:36, Jorge Visentini wrote: > Hi oVirt land. > > Can I