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Manual coalesce for a VM #7757

Open olivierlambert opened 5 months ago

olivierlambert commented 5 months ago

See https://docs.xenserver.com/en-us/xenserver/8/storage/manage.html#reclaim-space-by-using-the-offline-coalesce-tool

In Advanced view, a "Manual coalesce" button that will show a popup "The VM will be suspended during the operation".

Then:

  1. Suspend the VM
  2. Start the command
  3. Unsuspend when finished
julien-f commented 1 week ago

@olivierlambert: @Wescoeur and @Nambrok think it's a bad idea to expose this feature to the user.

Related to zammad#31426

Wescoeur commented 1 week ago

The coalesce-leaf plugin has many limitations:

julien-f commented 1 week ago

@Wescoeur How does the plugin behave if the conditions are not fulfilled?

What should we do?