Migrating disk from local-lvm to directory type storage and the disk image fill all the qcow2 image.

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Hi there
I have a couple of vm using the local-lvm storage.
I attached a directory storage and when move the disk of the vm from local-lvm to the directory storage, using qcow2, the disk image fill all the qcow2 image.
Is that right?
For instance, I have a VM with has the disk image about 100G size, but the VM using only 50G.
In the Data column I saw 50% consumed with the lvs command.
But now, when I migrate the disk vm from local-lvm to the directory storage, the virtual disk and the disk itself are 100GB!
On the other hand, if I use raw format, then the disk image in the directory storage remains de same.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

[UPDATE]

I did a fstrim using qm guest cmd VMID fstrim and the disk size goes wild!

qemu-img info vm-102-disk-1.raw
image: vm-102-disk-1.raw
file format: raw
virtual size: 100 GiB (107374182400 bytes)
disk size: 0.981 TiB
Child node '/file':
filename: vm-102-disk-1.raw
protocol type: file
file length: 100 GiB (107374182400 bytes)
disk size: 0.981 TiB

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Any toughts?

 

[milew]

The directory storage do not support thin provisioning.
Look at this https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage
Show your configuration of storage

cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

The directory storage do not support thin provisioning.
Look at this https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Storage
Show your configuration of storage

cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg

dir: local
path /var/lib/vz
content backup,vztmpl,iso

lvmthin: local-lvm
thinpool data
vgname pve
content images,rootdir

pbs: BKP
datastore BKP
server 10.10.100.20
content backup
fingerprint blah
prune-backups keep-all=1
username admin@pbs

dir: VMS
path /vms
content images
preallocation off
prune-backups keep-all=1
shared 1

 

[milew]

Please revmove fingerprint from you answer, at forum, it you security.

Yor machine are at local-lvm, type thinpool. Example VM declare 200G, data on this 1G. Real data is 1G
If you transfer from local-lvm to VMS (storage directory type) real data is 200G

/vms what mount at this?
You need to change this to something else that supports thin provisioning.

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

The directory storage do not support thin provisioning.

But new virtual disk are created like thin provision.
Look:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_XZoNDlAg

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

You need to change this to something else that supports thin provisioning.

As i said, new disk image works fine.
I was able to create a 1TB of size in the /vms mounted point, which has just about 900GB!
Already tried preallocation off, default, metadata and nothing changes when migra virtual disk from local-lvm to directory based storage.

 

[milew]

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/does-dir-storage-support-thin-provisioning.48950/

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

So how to explain that I can create a virtual image with 1TB using qcow2 and directory based storage??



qemu-img info vm-104-disk-1.qcow2
image: vm-104-disk-1.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 1 TiB (1099511627776 bytes)
disk size: 208 KiB
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
compression type: zlib
lazy refcounts: false
refcount bits: 16
corrupt: false
extended l2: false
Child node '/file':
filename: vm-104-disk-1.qcow2
protocol type: file
file length: 208 KiB (212992 bytes)
disk size: 208 KiB
sda638:/vms/images/104# ls -lh
total 52G
-rw-r----- 1 root root 51G Aug 2 13:24 vm-104-disk-0.qcow2
-rw-r----- 1 root root 208K Aug 2 13:23 vm-104-disk-1.qcow2

 

[milew]

So how to explain that I can create a virtual image with 1TB using qcow2 and directory based storage??

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
Do you have snapshots on this machine and are there many of them?

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
Do you have snapshots on this machine and are there many of them?

I don't know, either.
Nop. No snapshot at all.

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Ooops...
Ok folks.
My bad!
This topic was alread discused here:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/s...ove-virtual-disk-from-lvm-to-directory.76706/

The vm needs to be offline before move disk.

Sorry guys. My bad.

 

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Hi there.
I have this issue again, but with an entire new VM.
qemu-img info /vms/images/100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2
image: /vms/images/100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 120 GiB (128849018880 bytes)
disk size: 1 TiB
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
compat: 1.1
compression type: zlib
lazy refcounts: false
refcount bits: 16
corrupt: false
extended l2: false
Child node '/file':
filename: /vms/images/100/vm-100-disk-0.qcow2
protocol type: file
file length: 120 GiB (128868941824 bytes)
disk size: 1 TiB
I can quiet understand why disk size is showing 1TiB with a virtual disk of 120GiB of size.

That's very odd.