On 2019-04-17 13:31, Wesley Stewart wrote:
>  Appreciate the response!
>
> But there is plenty of space available.  About 250 free GBs. My test
> VM is about 40gb.
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 1:12 AM Eyal Shenitzky <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Wesley,
>
>     Currently, there is no direct way to change disks allocation
>     policy (thin-provision <-> preallocation).
>
>     In your case, it sounds like your ISCSI storage is running out of
>     space, changing disk from thin-provisioned to preallocation will
>     consume *more* space on the storage, thin-provision is more space
>     effective but impact the performance.
>
>     On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 8:35 PM Wesley Stewart
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         I am currently running a ZFS server (Running RaidZ2) and I
>         have been experimenting with NFS and shares to host my
>         guests.  I am currently running oVirt 4.2.8 and using a RaidZ2
>         NFS mount for the guests.
>
>         ZFS definitely is definitely pretty awful (At least in my
>         experience so far) for hosting VMs.
>
ZFS is definitely pretty awful at keeping your data _unsafe_ : )

Add a piece of the SSD's as mirrored SLOG and be both safe as fast. My
two cents.

/K

>         I believe this is due to the synchronous writes being
>         performed.  However, I think running an iSCSI target with
>         Synchronization disabled over a 10Gb connection might do the
>         trick. (I have a couple of mirroed SSD drives for performance
>         if I need it, but the RaidZ2 crawls for disk speed).
>
>         When I tried to migrate a thin provisioned guest to iSCSI, I
>         keep getting an "Out of disk space error" which I am pretty
>         sure is due to the block style storage on the iSCSI target. 
>         Is there a way to switch from Thin to Preallocated?  Or is my
>         best bet to try and take a snapshot and clone this into a
>         pre-allocated disk?
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>     -- 
>     Regards,
>     Eyal Shenitzky
>
>     On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 8:35 PM Wesley Stewart
>     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>         I am currently running a ZFS server (Running RaidZ2) and I
>         have been experimenting with NFS and shares to host my
>         guests.  I am currently running oVirt 4.2.8 and using a RaidZ2
>         NFS mount for the guests.
>
>         ZFS definitely is definitely pretty awful (At least in my
>         experience so far) for hosting VMs.  I believe this is due to
>         the synchronous writes being performed.  However, I think
>         running an iSCSI target with Synchronization disabled over a
>         10Gb connection might do the trick. (I have a couple of
>         mirroed SSD drives for performance if I need it, but the
>         RaidZ2 crawls for disk speed).
>
>         When I tried to migrate a thin provisioned guest to iSCSI, I
>         keep getting an "Out of disk space error" which I am pretty
>         sure is due to the block style storage on the iSCSI target. 
>         Is there a way to switch from Thin to Preallocated?  Or is my
>         best bet to try and take a snapshot and clone this into a
>         pre-allocated disk?
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>
>
>     -- 
>     Regards,
>     Eyal Shenitzky
>
>
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