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Hide or discriminate metadata VDI in the SR/disk view #7837

Open olivierlambert opened 4 months ago

olivierlambert commented 4 months ago

Since we use CBT+purge snap data, we do not see the VM snapshot in the VM/snapshot view anymore, which is great!

However, the VDI is still visible in the SR/VDI view:

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Since there's no indication it's a "metadata" only VDI, people might think the snapshot is still there. Also, if you try to export it, it will fail with a blank page showing: image

So we probably need to mark them clearly as metadata only, and remove the capacity to export. Or something like that.

Request origin: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/80266

julien-f commented 4 months ago

I agree it's an issue we should address, also, this VDIs may be marked as orphan in the Dashboard/Health view.

julien-f commented 4 months ago

Maybe we could have a "special* VM to attach all these VDIs to?

olivierlambert commented 4 months ago

You have limits on number of VDI to attach, so it doesn't sound plausible to do this (also what about local SR? we need a special VM in each host?). I don't think that's the best way. It might be better to just mark them correctly in this view.

Note: I'm not seeing them orphaned in our prod XOA.