HI, all:
I am doing an inventory of all vhd files on my primary storage device. I have
only eight active VM instances, but I have 43 vhd files on file system.
Running cmd “xe vdi-list” on XenServer provides infor on all vhd files. From
the output, I can tell that “name-label” field generally matches the disk
names shown in CS web UI for active volumes, or for templates copied over to
primary storage. However, there are a number of vdi’s whose “name-label”
field is either blank or “base copy”, as shown below:
# xe vdi-list
uuid ( RO) : 1e2b3e3d-514c-4c99-bf55-d32b60d8eefe
name-label ( RW): base copy
name-description ( RW):
sr-uuid ( RO): b3f5cc51-a68b-842e-e5a5-4ffb042eaade
virtual-size ( RO): 21474836480
sharable ( RO): false
read-only ( RO): true
uuid ( RO) : b7470f8a-f014-49b0-8263-65ffe348446c
name-label ( RW):
name-description ( RW):
sr-uuid ( RO): b3f5cc51-a68b-842e-e5a5-4ffb042eaade
virtual-size ( RO): 21474836480
sharable ( RO): false
read-only ( RO): false
uuid ( RO) : 4c3b92df-3cda-4bf0-97c3-9d88818e855a
name-label ( RW): ROOT-26
name-description ( RW):
sr-uuid ( RO): b3f5cc51-a68b-842e-e5a5-4ffb042eaade
virtual-size ( RO): 2621440000
sharable ( RO): false
read-only ( RO): false
uuid ( RO) : 2a4992e4-fb97-41d3-95ed-3bf188ace7c1
name-label ( RW): Template 8206c6e7-1b7f-4365-bdf2-020a47318c3e
name-description ( RW):
sr-uuid ( RO): b3f5cc51-a68b-842e-e5a5-4ffb042eaade
virtual-size ( RO): 21474836480
sharable ( RO): false
read-only ( RO): false
(more output)
My questions are: 1) what are those VDI’s whose “name-label” is blank, can I
safely delete them from file system ? And 2) what are those “base copy” VDI’s,
how do I find out which VM / templates they belong to ?
Thanks,
Yiping
