Yeah, usually "reset" (for hypervisors) means "shut down the VM and re-start it."
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Marcus <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 to reset being a bad verb for this. It's too late now, however. > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Marcus <shadow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The storage gets marked as 'Destroy' state. Then it goes to > > 'Expunging' when the storage cleanup interval occurs. I've actually > > thought about leveraging that for data disks, the current delete data > > disk immediately cleans up the disk, when we could create an api call > > that just moves the data disk to destroy state. Then there'd actually > > be room for an 'undo' operation where the state could be moved back to > > Ready, so long as the cleanup hasn't occurred. > > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com> > wrote: > >> Please feel free to open a documentation bug on JIRA if the info doesn't > >> exist. > >> > >> On 19/03/14 3:16 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > wrote: > >> > >>>Thanks for that background-cleanup info. I was not aware of that. > >>> > >>>I'll probably take a look into it and see how that works. > >>> > >>> > >>>On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < > >>>alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> CS destroys the Root volume in CS DB, then its up to the storage pool > >>>> cleanup task to clean it up on the backend. This is a background task > >>>> running every storage.cleanup.interval seconds. > >>>> > >>>> For how long do you see the volume being present on the SR? > >>>> > >>>> On 3/19/14, 3:03 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> >OK, sounds good; however, if this is desired behavior, does anyone > know > >>>> >why > >>>> >we abandon the old root disk in the XenServer SR? It seems that > >>>>CloudStack > >>>> >"forgets" about it and it just stays in the SR taking up space. > >>>> > > >>>> >Do people think it should be deleted? > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> >On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Nitin Mehta <nitin.me...@citrix.com > > > >>>> >wrote: > >>>> > > >>>> >> I think that's what it is supposed to do. It discards the old root > >>>>disk > >>>> >> and creates a fresh root disk for the vm and in case an optional > >>>>field > >>>> >> template id is passed in the root disk is created from this new > >>>>template > >>>> >> id. > >>>> >> The api name is restoreVirtualMachine. Please check that the UI is > >>>> >> internally invoking this api > >>>> >> > >>>> >> Thanks, > >>>> >> -Nitin > >>>> >> > >>>> >> On 19/03/14 1:55 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" < > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> > >>>> >> wrote: > >>>> >> > >>>> >> >Hi, > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> >I noticed today while running through some test cases for 4.4 that > >>>> >> >resetting a VM does not work as expected. > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> >Instead of the typical stop and re-start behavior where the VM is > >>>> >>booted > >>>> >> >back up using the same root disk, the VM gets a new root disk when > >>>>it > >>>> >>is > >>>> >> >booted back up. > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> >Can anyone confirm this finding for me with his or her setup? > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> >Thanks! > >>>> >> > > >>>> >> >-- > >>>> >> >*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> > >>>> >> >*(tm)* > >>>> >> > >>>> >> > >>>> > > >>>> > > >>>> >-- > >>>> >*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> > >>>> >*(tm)* > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>-- > >>>*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> > >>>*(tm)* > >> > -- *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> *(tm)*
