Xenserver 6.5 Thin Provisioning Issue

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller
How to confirm the thin provision option is enabled after the installation

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller
How to confirm the thin provision option is enabled after the installation

You said that you did it. Are you doubting your memory?

coliver

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller
How to confirm the thin provision option is enabled after the installation

One of the ways you can do it (although it may be restricted on XenServer) is to create a virtual hard disk bigger then the space available. If it allows you to then you have thin provisioning enabled... if it fails then you don't. Of course this could cause a string of other, more serious issues.

scottalanmiller

What does this command show?

xe vbd-list

Lakshmana

@coliver said:

ows you to then you have thin provisioning enabled... if it fails then you don't. Of course this could cause a string of other, more serious issues.

[root@xenserver3 ~]# xe vbd-list
uuid ( RO) : 03e3e447-be1c-826b-1f36-0fcd4548fd3b
vm-uuid ( RO): 9e6f55b3-dad4-27f6-1be6-7039f6c70bef
vm-name-label ( RO): Other install media (1)
vdi-uuid ( RO): 6d457475-de17-41f4-a8cf-41243f972e75
empty ( RO): false
device ( RO): xvdd

uuid ( RO) : 56e0ecfd-d8ba-140a-1ca5-e665edc6a2e9
vm-uuid ( RO): 4de3a235-9339-e37d-8000-6754ccc1c02d
vm-name-label ( RO): Windows 7 (32-bit) (2)
vdi-uuid ( RO): 6d457475-de17-41f4-a8cf-41243f972e75
empty ( RO): false
device ( RO):

uuid ( RO) : 51198e3f-edbe-18d2-ec80-1b7ca33744b3
vm-uuid ( RO): a8c3d7fe-2179-4eab-e609-8c80cfe60096
vm-name-label ( RO): Windows 7 (32-bit) (1)
vdi-uuid ( RO): 6d457475-de17-41f4-a8cf-41243f972e75
empty ( RO): false
device ( RO): xvdd

scottalanmiller

Shoot, I thought that that would say explicitly that they were thin provisioned.

scottalanmiller

This is not something the XS has well documented. They mostly expect you to just remember.

scottalanmiller

What about this xe sr-list

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller said:

e XS has well documented. They mostly expect you to just remember.

In my client the person does not know about thin provisioning.Then how he will find now.I also working towards it now?

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller said:

e XS has well documented. They mostly expect you to just remember.

In my client the person does not know about thin provisioning.Then how he will find now.I also working towards it now?

This is an IT thing and not something that a client should know anything about. If the client doesn't know how to check, why does he care? Something is wrong that you are in this situation. It's like "how does the customer know that the engine as 24 valves". If the customer doesn't know how to check, then they don't need to care. If they know how to check, they don't need to ask you. You can answer that it was installed with thin provisioning and that is how Citrix tells you. Citrix does not provide a way to know, so he is asking for something you cannot provide. This is his problem.

scottalanmiller

If he insists, tell him to check with Citrix how to do this. He is not paying for support and Citrix does not document how to verify this.