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Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 06:58:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: Storagemigration / Primary Storages
From: Pierre-Luc Dion <pdion@cloudops.com>
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Hi Stephan,

Are you saying that after the successful volume migration, the space used
by the volume on the origin SR is not freed up? Even after 24hours?
On May 13, 2016 08:44, "Adrian Sender" <asender@testlabs.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> Xenserver would coalesce the source LUN and create a new base copy on the
> destination. This would explain the source increasing the and destination
> less
> then the original.
>
> http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX201296
>
> Regards,
> Adrian Sender
>
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Stephan Seitz <s.seitz@secretresearchfacility.com>
> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> Sent: Fri, 13 May 2016 10:12:21 +0200
> Subject: Re: Storagemigration / Primary Storages
>
> > Sanjeev,
> >
> > thank's for your response. As you said, CS will delete the volumes from
> > the source storage, but I'ld expect it to be done immediately after a
> > successful migration.
> > I don't think this happened correctly. Is there an easy way to track
> > down CS-volumeid to xen-vbds to xen-vdi to the respective LV
> > (LVMoHBA)? So I could check removal-tasks against the LV.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > - Stephan
> >
> > On Fr, 2016-05-13 at 06:05 +0000, Sanjeev Neelarapu wrote:
> > > Hi Stephan,
> > >
> > > Once the volume migration is successful then only CS will delete it
> > > from the source storage. Please make sure that there are no issues
> > > with volume migrations.
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Sanjeev N
> > > Chief Product Engineer, Accelerite
> > > Off: +91 40 6722 9368 | EMail: sanjeev.neelarapu@accelerite.com
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stephan Seitz [mailto:s.seitz@secretresearchfacility.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2016 9:49 PM
> > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
> > > Subject: Storagemigration / Primary Storages
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > We're currently migrating volumes from one to another storage with
> > > the goal to get the source LUN freed to finally remove the whole
> > > storage.
> > > This runs w/ ACS 4.8 and XenServer 6.5 with attached FC-Storages.
> > >
> > > Interestingly, the free space not only decreases (as expected) on the
> > > target LUN. Also the source LUN is running full during this progress.
> > >
> > > By now, I did'nt dug too deep, but maybe anyone had seen this issue.
> > > too? And maybe could give a hint for the reason? ;)
> > >
> > > What we had was:
> > > SAS-LUN     w/ Tag SAS
> > > SATA-LUN w/ Tag SATA
> > >
> > > Every offering is configured with the respective Tags.
> > >
> > > What we prepared:
> > > SAS-LUN2 w/ Tags SAS,SASNEW
> > > SATA-LUN2 w/ Tags SATA,SATAMEW
> > > SAS-LUN w/ Tag SASOLD (changed from SAS) SATA-LUN w/ Tag SATAOLD
> > > (changed from SATA)
> > >
> > > Most of the volumes are migrated live via cloudmonkey as simple as:
> > >
> > > migrate volume volumeid=[somevolume-on-"old"-lun] storageid=SATA-LUN2
> > > livemigrate=true
> > >
> > > Some of the migration-jobs ran into ACS timouts until we changed
> > > job.cancel.threshold.minutes to 240 (some of the bigger volumes took
> > > some amount of time).
> > >
> > > Thanks for any suggestions.
> > >
> > > - Stephan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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