Goto Infrastructure, Zone, Resources Compare Storage value VS Primary Allocated Storage value.
Storage value is the actual size used in my opinion. Are you running of space and cant launch vms? > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Sciarrino [mailto:chris.sciarr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 2:36 PM > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Cloudstack System Capacity - VMFS Storage > > 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 > >> > > >> > > > > >
