@All, Dan has now shared more info on his setup, anyone out there know of any known issues with KVM not cleaning up primary storage.
@Dan - can you confirm we are talking about Root volumes and not Data Volumes Regards Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Dan Dong [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 February 2015 20:14 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Force cleaning primary storage. Hi, Geoff, Thanks a lot, here are the details: 1. CloudStack version: 4.4.1 2. Hypervisor: KVM 3. Primary storage is NFS, but system.vm.use.local.storage is set to true. And: expunge.delay 360 expunge.interval 3600 expunge.workers 1 Cheers, Dan 2015-02-02 10:36 GMT-06:00 Geoff Higginbottom < [email protected]>: > Hi Dan, > > Please share the following to help the community help you > > 1. version of cloudstack > 2. Hypervisor Type > 3. Primary Storage Type e.g. NFS / iSCSI > > I can confirm CloudStack is supposed to delete Root Volumes from > physical storage after the VM has been deleted, but Data volumes are > left in CloudStack as a safeguard against accidental deletion. > However if you then delete the Data volume from the UI, it will also > be deleted from Primary Storage. > > There are some settings which control the expunge delay within > CloudStack, these are: > > expunge.delay > expunge.interval > expunge.workers > > If you could also share what these settings are, that would also help > > Regards > > Geoff Higginbottom > > D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 > > [email protected] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Dong [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 02 February 2015 16:12 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Force cleaning primary storage. > > Hi, All, > I found the primary storages are keep decreasing after I create and > then destroy VMs. Although the VMs are destroyed and expunged, their > occupation on primary storage seems never been released( even after weeks). > Is there a way to force releasing the disk space after a VM has been > destroyed? > > Cheers, > Dan > Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related > services > > IaaS Cloud Design & Build< > http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> > CSForge – rapid IaaS deployment > framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> > CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> > CloudStack Software Engineering< > http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-software-engineering/> > CloudStack Infrastructure Support< > http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> > CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses< > http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> > > This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are > intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. > Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do > not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd or related > companies. 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