mån 2015-11-23 klockan 08:56 +0100 skrev Johan Kooijman: > Hi Nir, > > > I wonder if it can be made any more efficient, I think this method is > clear enough. The only thing not clear to me was that while deleting > the storage domain, it doesn't touch it's contents.
Perhaps another wording? "Delete" vs. "Remove"? /K > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Nir Soffer <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Johan Kooijman > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have about 100 old VM's in my cluster. They're powered > down, ready for > > deletion. What I want to do is delete the VM's including > disks without > > actually deleting the disk images from the storage array > itself. Is that > > possible? > > Select the vm, click "remove", in the confirmation dialog, > uncheck the > "Delete disks" > checkbox, confirm. > > > At the end I want to be able to delete the storage domain > (which > > then should not hold any data, as far as ovirt is > concerned). > > Ovirt deleted the vms, but is keeping the disks, so the > storage domain > does hold all > the disks. > > > > > Reason for this: it's a ZFS pool with dedup enabled, > deleting the images one > > by one will kill the array with 100% iowa for some time. > > So what do you need is to destroy the storage domain, which > will > remove all the entities > associated with it, but will keep the storage without any > change. > > Do this: > 1. Select the storage tab > 2. select the domain > 3. In the data center sub tab, click "maintenance" > 4. When domain is in maintenance, click "detach" > 5. Right click the domain and choose "destroy" > > This will remove the storage domain from engine database, > leaving > the contents of the domain. > > You can now delete the contents using favorite system tools. > > Now, if we want to add support for this in ovirt, how would > you delete > the entire domain in a more efficient way? > > Nir > > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, > Johan Kooijman > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
