Thanks Mike! However, I am observing this in case of first snapshot also. Let me try on various hypervisors to see the behavior.
Regards, Gaurav On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > I'm not exactly sure how this number is calculated, but - if you are using > XenServer - remember that after the first snapshot for a volume, each > subsequent snapshot is only the blocks that have changed since the prior > snapshot (this might even be true for ESX these days with CloudStack). > > That being the case, unless you change all 8 GB of blocks each time before > doing a snapshot, you should expect your snapshots to be < 8 GB > (potentially very small, if you didn't change much since the last > snapshot). > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Gaurav Aradhye < > gaurav.arad...@clogeny.com> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > When I create a snapshot, from say, template registered through an > account, > > then > > > > 1) How can I know the snapshot size on secondary storage? (API > > listSnapshots does not specify the snapshot size) > > > > 2) How is snapshot size counted in secondary storage used by the account? > > Currently I can see secondary storage count increasing by the (number of > > snapshots) and not the snapshot size. > > > > E.g. I have template sized 8 GB. I create a snapshot from it. Now if I > list > > the secondary storage used by the account, then it lists as "9" (GB). If > I > > create another snapshot, then it lists it as 10. It is not possible for > my > > snapshot size to be 1 (GB) because it's created from root volume having > > size 8 GB. > > > > Can I say it's a bug? Secondary storage count being listed as (Storage > > other than snapshot + number of snapshots) GB. > > > > Regards, > > Gaurav > > > > > > -- > *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>*™* >
