[SOLVED] Proxmox VE GUI allows deleting storage even though there are VMs referring to it

[EllyMae]

I have a VM with a virtual disk on NVME1N1:



Here is the storage:



And, I delete it:



Now it's gone:



Now I go back to the original VM, bullwinkle. The virtual disk is still there. When I try to assign it to another VM:



I am requesting a change in the GUI. If anything is referencing a storage, do not allow it to be deleted. And, if you want to be kind to the user, please say exactly which references are preventing the storage from being deleted.

Thanks.

 

[Neobin]

Somewhat related to: [1]

You might want to extend the existing ticket or possibly open a new one there ([2]).
Not sure what is better; would depend on how the Proxmox-Developers intend to handle this in a whole.

[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3711
[2] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com

 

[EllyMae]

Somewhat related to: [1]

You might want to extend the existing ticket or possibly open a new one there ([2]).
Not sure what is better; would depend on how the Proxmox-Developers intend to handle this in a whole.

[1] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3711
[2] https://bugzilla.proxmox.com

Thanks for researching that. I have updated the bugzilla thread.

 

[fabian]

I am requesting a change in the GUI. If anything is referencing a storage, do not allow it to be deleted. And, if you want to be kind to the user, please say exactly which references are preventing the storage from being deleted.

even if we check for references, nothing can stop another node than the one where you are requesting the removal from concurrently creating new ones. PVE uses a multi-master cluster architecture where each node is responsible for local resources (which includes local storages). there are also very very many places that would need to be checked (all guest configs including all snapshots, backup jobs, ..). it's also possible that the removal even with references is intentional (to re-add it with different settings which are not editable over the GUI, for example).

 

[EllyMae]

Thanks for everyone's responses and educating me. I now see the wider context.