Hi Wei, thanks for you shared information. As always really helpfull.
Regards Am Mi., 14. Dez. 2022 um 20:59 Uhr schrieb Wei ZHOU <ustcweiz...@gmail.com>: > Exactly. > > You can use 'qemu-img convert' to recreate the image. > > If you use recent libvirt/qemu and guest os, you can use volume snapshot on > running vms, the memory will be lost but image will not be touched. see > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/5297 > > -Wei > > On Thursday, 8 December 2022, vas...@gmx.de <vas...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > Hi Wei, > > > > indeed. I am using snapshots every now and then, but i delete them quiet > > fast. > > From your question i would assume that the vm-snapshots are 'expending' > the > > Root-volume of the VM and when deleting the snapshot the volume won't be > > shrinked to the "original" size? > > > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > Am Do., 8. Dez. 2022 um 22:31 Uhr schrieb Wei ZHOU < > ustcweiz...@gmail.com > > >: > > > > > Do you use vm snapshot or download volume of running vms ? > > > > > > -Wei > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, 8 December 2022, vas...@gmx.de <vas...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > today i found some strange things going on in my setup and i > currently > > > > lacking a idea where to start looking for debugging. > > > > > > > > Running currently CS 4.17.0.1 i noticed that the actual on-disk-size > on > > > our > > > > nfs-storage isn't matching the configured volume-size in CS > Management. > > > > We are using kvm only. > > > > As of now i found multiple machines which are using a 50GB sized > > service > > > > offering for creation of root volume, which are bigger then 100GB on > > the > > > > actual storage. > > > > > > > > Connecting into the VMs and checking the amount of storage the VM is > > > > thinking it is using is even less; for example: > > > > > > > > VM with 50GB thin provisioned root volume; shown correctly in mgmt > and > > db > > > > -> used ammount of storage according to OS: 21GB of 50GB -> size on > > > > nfs-storage for the volume-file: 120GB > > > > > > > > I checked the values inside the CS DB as well as the settings for the > > > > serviceofferings and everything seems to be completely fine. > > > > Also the nfs server settings are looking good. > > > > > > > > Did anybody has a suggestion on where to look into? As of know it > > seems i > > > > am waisting a lot of storage without any particular reason. > > > > Regards. > > > > > > > > > >
