Thanks for you reply . So if I understand you correctly you want to reduce the space a thin provision disk takes up on the NFS share because you deleted files within the VM? Yes
Is there any others way to reclaim disk space , coz i have bulks of vm under thin provision manual process kind of impossible . As i know Vmware have this kind of facility to reclaim from thin provision . On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhir...@triadic.us> wrote: > Sorry, I must have misunderstood. > > So if I understand you correctly you want to reduce the space a thin > provision disk takes up on the NFS share because you deleted files within > the VM? > > I'm pretty sure that thin provisioned disks can only grow. Once they have > been expanded there's no way to reclaim that space on the NFS share. > > The only thing I think you can do is create a new thin provisioned disk > and copy the old data over at the file level, not the block level. > Afterwards you could delete the original disk. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 5, 2015, at 1:19 AM, smiling dream <smiling.dr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I mean vm internal disk space . > All of VM under thin provision . If i delete files and free space from VM > still ovirt stroage showing vm disk space is used . How to reclaim disk > space from guest VM . > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Alex McWhirter <alexmcwhir...@triadic.us> > wrote: > >> From what I understand, ovirt simply reports the available storage that >> the NFS server says it is free. Ovirt itself doesn't control the storage. >> >> Under the storage tab click on the storage domain you're having issues >> with and check to see if the images themselves have been deleted or if they >> are still there. When you delete a virtual machine you have the option to >> delete the virtual image as well. >> >> If a virtual machine has more than one image then I'm not sure how this >> is handled as I've only used single images for virtual machines. Any >> additional storage I need I handle over NFS directly to the virtual machine. >> >> Perhaps ovirt doesn't automatically delete secondary images? Either way >> you should be able to delete them manually and reclaim space. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Jun 5, 2015, at 12:39 AM, smiling dream <smiling.dr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > I have ovirt 3.5.1 installed with VDSM 4.16.14 EL6 node and NFS as >> storage . In my infrastructure i have multiple instance of centos / windows >> vm under ovirt and once guest vm disk space is used ovirt is not release >> guest vm disk space after delete . >> > Looking for help . >> > >> > Regards >> > Suvro >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Users mailing list >> > Users@ovirt.org >> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >
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