Can't remove orphaned Snapshot Named in List - Disk Gone

[JakeBikeIT]

Hi All,

I have management DC- that I snapshot accidentally.

Foolishly I halted the snapshot ., I unlocked the DC and all is running fine - there is no snapshot disk - but I cannot remove the name "BeforeUpdate" of the snapshot.

I never snap DC's - I was meaning to snap a Linux machine running underneath it.

How can I remove the Orphaned name please

 

[alexskysilk]

Whats a management DC, and how do you snapshot it?

 

[JakeBikeIT]

A management domain controller - creates centralised authentication in a part of the network that manages everything from switch config, storage config, hypervisor management, cluster management, PVE and hyperV etc..

I've got a snapshot that I took accidentally I can see the name of snapshot - the disk is gone - I want to delete the name - do you know how?

 

[Moayad]

Could you please post the VM config? qm config <VMID>

 

[JakeBikeIT]

bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide0;ide2
cores: 2
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-0,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
ide0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-1,size=120G
ide2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.229.iso,media=cdrom,size=522284K
machine: pc-q35-7.2
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=7.2.0,ctime=1700222103
name: Guralpman-DC1
net0: vmxnet3=6E:1F:65:2F:C2:BF,bridge=vmbr6,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win11
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=b700fdc1-41db-4f10-999d-e1ee3559efc1
sockets: 2
tpmstate0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-2,size=4M,version=v2.0
vga: virtio
vmgenid: 5b8b46c9-636e-40a7-a4b4-0c77834badde



It doesn't appear to be of any consequence - aside from causing unwanted locks when you go to remove it.

The drive is not running on the snap.

And - Thanks for your reply!

it does have an Ent License

 

[Moayad]

Thank you for the VM config.

Could you please also provide us with the `cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/104.conf` command?

 

[JakeBikeIT]

bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide0;ide2
cores: 2
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-0,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
ide0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-1,size=120G
ide2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.229.iso,media=cdrom,size=522284K
machine: pc-q35-7.2
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=7.2.0,ctime=1700222103
name: Guralpman-DC1
net0: vmxnet3=6E:1F:65:2F:C2:BF,bridge=vmbr6,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win11
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=b700fdc1-41db-4f10-999d-e1ee3559efc1
sockets: 2
tpmstate0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-2,size=4M,version=v2.0
vga: virtio
vmgenid: 5b8b46c9-636e-40a7-a4b4-0c77834badde

[BeforeUpdate]
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide0;ide2
cores: 2
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-0,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
ide0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-1,size=120G
ide2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.229.iso,media=cdrom,size=522284K
machine: pc-q35-7.2
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=7.2.0,ctime=1700222103
name: Guralpman-DC1
net0: vmxnet3=6E:1F:65:2F:C2:BF,bridge=vmbr6,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win11
runningcpu: kvm64,enforce,hv_ipi,hv_relaxed,hv_reset,hv_runtime,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_stimer,hv_synic,hv_time,hv_vapic,hv_vpindex,+kvm_pv_eoi,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+lahf_lm,+sep
runningmachine: pc-q35-7.2+pve0
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=b700fdc1-41db-4f10-999d-e1ee3559efc1
snapstate: delete
snaptime: 1702916886
sockets: 2
tpmstate0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-2,size=4M,version=v2.0
vga: virtio
vmgenid: 5b8b46c9-636e-40a7-a4b4-0c77834badde

 

[Moayad]

Hi,

If the snapshot is already removed from your storage `pve/snap-VM-104-disk-1_BeforeUpdate` you can safely remove the [BeforeUpdate] section from the `/etc/pve/qemu-server/104.conf`.

 

[JakeBikeIT]

Just to be clear Moayad and thandyou again -

Just use Nano and remove the [BeforeUpdate] line and everything below and re-save?

 

[Moayad]

You have to get rid of the all the `BeforeUpdate` section i.e., remove all the following section from the VM config:

[BeforeUpdate]
bios: ovmf
boot: order=ide0;ide2
cores: 2
efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-0,efitype=4m,pre-enrolled-keys=1,size=4M
ide0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-1,size=120G
ide2: local:iso/virtio-win-0.1.229.iso,media=cdrom,size=522284K
machine: pc-q35-7.2
memory: 8192
meta: creation-qemu=7.2.0,ctime=1700222103
name: Guralpman-DC1
net0: vmxnet3=6E:1F:65:2F:C2:BF,bridge=vmbr6,firewall=1
numa: 0
onboot: 1
ostype: win11
runningcpu: kvm64,enforce,hv_ipi,hv_relaxed,hv_reset,hv_runtime,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_stimer,hv_synic,hv_time,hv_vapic,hv_vpindex,+kvm_pv_eoi,+kvm_pv_unhalt,+lahf_lm,+sep
runningmachine: pc-q35-7.2+pve0
scsihw: virtio-scsi-single
smbios1: uuid=b700fdc1-41db-4f10-999d-e1ee3559efc1
snapstate: delete
snaptime: 1702916886
sockets: 2
tpmstate0: local-lvm:vm-104-disk-2,size=4M,version=v2.0
vga: virtio
vmgenid: 5b8b46c9-636e-40a7-a4b4-0c77834badde

I would have a copy of the VM config just in case you did something not correct.

 

[JakeBikeIT]

That worked perfectly - thank you