Hi All,
We're in the process of phasing out primary storage in one of our zones and had
some questions about dealing with:
1. system VMs (Console Proxy & Secondary Storage)
2. what looks like (to me), left over snapshot artifacts
We're running CloudPlatform 4.5.1 with XenServer hypervisors and the storage to
be retired are Dell Equallogic servers.
For the first item I think all I need to do is mark the primary storage on the
Dell EQL's into maintenance mode and then destroy them so that they'll come up
on the new primary storage (already provisioned & configured in CloudPlatform).
It's the second item that's giving me pause, when looking at the SR associated
with the primary storage I'm seeing disks named like:
* ABCServer_ROOT-685_20160905000250
and in CloudPlatform have found an associated volume snapshot with the same
date data. This seemed odd because I've understood that volume snapshots should
be on secondary storage.
I deleted the snapshot in CloudPlatform thinking that perhaps the disk above
would disappear from view when looking at the SR in XenCenter, but it's still
there. The impression I'm getting is that perhaps this is left over from some
volume snapshot failure to clean up?
How can I best chase this down? I'd like to retire this storage but I'd like to
make sure that once it's gone there isn't something in the database that's
still referring items there.
Thanks,
David
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