RE: Volume snapshot and primary storage space

2017-06-06 Thread Lotic Lists
ve 😊 -Original Message- From: Syed Ahmed [mailto:sah...@cloudops.com] Sent: terça-feira, 6 de junho de 2017 11:39 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Volume snapshot and primary storage space Are you talking about base and the snapshot image? When XenServer takes a snapshot, it creates a

Re: Volume snapshot and primary storage space

2017-06-06 Thread Tutkowski, Mike
“A friend answered me: the last snapshot is required to take any future snapshots, that is the reason it stays on primary store” That answer is correct as far as I know. If you take another volume snapshot, we only want to transfer the data since the prior volume snapshot. To do this, we need to

Re: Volume snapshot and primary storage space

2017-06-06 Thread Syed Ahmed
Are you talking about base and the snapshot image? When XenServer takes a snapshot, it creates a base image and then creates a new CoW layer on top of it where new writes go. Are you seeing more than 2 VDIs? On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Lotic Lists wrote: > Hi team > > > > I have a doubt, wh

Volume snapshot and primary storage space

2017-06-06 Thread Lotic Lists
Hi team I have a doubt, why ACS allocate primary storage for latest snapshot VDI of a volume? The snapshot was transferred to secondary storage but continued on primary. This is a problem because it uses space of SR (XenServer). Physical space of snapshot is not a problem, the VDI have 211