Dan, Is the compute offering you are using for your VMs set to use local storage? You will need to create new compute offerings if not and launch your VMs with those offerings.
Cheers, Carlos > On Mar 18, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Dan Dong <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem is that I can not launch many VMs as the primary storage of 2TB > will be filled quickly. Why the primary storage could not utilize local > storage on hypervisor nodes? Some other global settings? > > system.vm.use.local.storage=true > And I have set to use local storage in my compute offering already. > > Local storage enabledYes > On dashboard I see: > Primary Storage Allocated: 1.24 TB / 1.79 TB > Local Storage: Allocated: 630.28 GB / 21.21 TB > > Cheers, > Dan > > > > 2015-03-17 16:28 GMT-05:00 Somesh Naidu <[email protected]>: > >> Local Storage is used for UserVM and SystemVM deployment based on the >> values set for "system.vm.use.local.storage" and "Local storage enabled". >> Of course, you need compute offering using local storage as well. >> >> Somesh >> CloudPlatform Escalations >> Citrix Systems, Inc. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dan Dong [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 3:23 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: More disk space for primary storage. >> >> Hi, Somesh, >> Yes, all the local storage are listed in storage_pool table with e.g: >> >> used_bytes managed 6690078720 >> capacity_bytes 3886517903360 >> >> And >> Local storage enabledYes >> On dashboard I see: >> Primary Storage Allocated: 1.24 TB / 1.79 TB >> Local Storage: Allocated: 630.28 GB / 21.21 TB >> >> Confused what this Local Storage are used for? >> >> Cheers, >> Dan >> >> >> >> 2015-03-17 13:37 GMT-05:00 Somesh Naidu <[email protected]>: >> >>> Dan, >>> >>> Are all the local storage listed in the storage_pool table? If so, what >>> does the capacity_bytes column for these reflect? >>> >>> In addition, what do you have "Local storage enabled" flag set to for the >>> Zone where the KVM hosts reside? >>> >>> Somesh >>> CloudPlatform Escalations >>> Citrix Systems, Inc. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Dan Dong [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 11:08 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: More disk space for primary storage. >>> >>> Hi, All, >>> I found a weird situation here: >>> 1. My cloudstack cluster contains 1 Management Server+7KVM Hypervisor >>> nodes. >>> 2. 1TB disk is allocated to primary storage on Management Server. >>> 3. Each KVM Hypervisor has 4TB disk space, no manual disk partitions on >> it. >>> 4. system.vm.use.local.storage=true >>> 5. But found only 2TB size of primary storage on dashboard. >>> >>> So seems the 7 KVM nodes altogether contribute only 1TB for primary >>> storage. How to allocate more disk space to primary storage? Any global >>> settings I did not set? Thanks. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Dan >>> >>
