Ok. Any way to do it without? Because with snapshot deletion I end up with the same issue - I can't remove images form my storage.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Liron Aravot <lara...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Johan Kooijman" <m...@johankooijman.com> > > To: "Nir Soffer" <nsof...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org> > > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 10:10:27 AM > > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Delete disk references without deleting the > disk > > > > One weird thing though: when I try to remove the VM itself, it won't let > me > > uncheck the "Remove disks" checkbox. > > > > That is because that there are snapshots for the disks, you can remove the > snapshots and then you could > leave your disks. Currently oVirt doesn't support snapshots for floating > disks. > > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Nir Soffer < nsof...@redhat.com > > wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Johan Kooijman < m...@johankooijman.com > > > > 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 > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > -- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards, Johan Kooijman
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