I assume 6 fails with VMware, as well? Is Xen OK with 6?
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, SuichII, Christopher < chris.su...@netapp.com> wrote: > FWIW, after looking into this more with Xen, when the VM is restored in > step 4, it simply no longer has the volume attached, so this appears to > really be a VMWare issue. Any VMWare experts out there know how we can > handle this? > > -Chris > -- > Chris Suich > chris.su...@netapp.com > NetApp Software Engineer > Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions > Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat > > On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:05 PM, SuichII, Christopher <chris.su...@netapp.com> > wrote: > > > We currently don’t allow volumes to be attached to VMs with snapshots > and allowing volumes to be detached causes quite a bug: > > > > 1) Attach a data disk to a VM > > 2) Snapshot the VM > > 3) Detach the data disk > > 4) Attempt to restore the VM from the snapshot — FAILS since the data > disk is no longer there, although it is expected to be > > 5) Attempt to re-attach the volume to the VM — FAILS since you cannot > attach volumes to VMs with snapshots > > 6) Attempt to delete the VM snapshot — FAILS since the data disk is no > longer there, although it is expected to be > > > > I have verified the above steps on VMWare, however Xen does not appear > to fail on step 4, presumably because VMWare handles snapshots quite > differently than Xen. > > > > Does anyone else have any thoughts on whether this is a bug or not? IMO, > on VMWare, this set of steps can get users into a state where they can no > longer attach new data disks to their VM, so it appears to be a bug of some > kind. > > > > -Chris > > -- > > Chris Suich > > chris.su...@netapp.com > > NetApp Software Engineer > > Data Center Platforms – Cloud Solutions > > Citrix, Cisco & Red Hat > > > > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *™*
