Okay thanks Ilya for confirming, I'll have to look into why it's not taking effect in my setup.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Musayev, Ilya <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: > 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 >> > >> > > >
