Internal error: Not_found after Vinchin backup

rustylh

I deleted the snapshot from this one vm.

However, that one remains in the list on here:

olivierlambert

You can check if coalesce is running if you see that garbage collection is planned on XO/SR view.

rustylh

What does this mean exactly? When will this happen? I'm sorry I am very nervous.

rustylh

I don't know if this helps from the SMlog

[15:18 iahost-xcpng-server2 ~]# grep -i "coalesce" /var/log/SMlog
Jul  8 14:32:53 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [31275] Aborting GC/coalesce
Jul  8 14:33:00 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [31789] Entering doesFileHaveOpenHandles with file: /dev/mapper/VG_XenStorage--88d7607c--f807--3b06--6f70--2dcb319d97ea-coalesce_8241ba22--3125--4f45--b3b1--254792a525c7_1
Jul  8 14:33:00 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [31789] Entering findRunningProcessOrOpenFile with params: ['/dev/mapper/VG_XenStorage--88d7607c--f807--3b06--6f70--2dcb319d97ea-coalesce_8241ba22--3125--4f45--b3b1--254792a525c7_1', False]
Jul  8 14:33:00 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [31789] ['/sbin/dmsetup', 'remove', '/dev/mapper/VG_XenStorage--88d7607c--f807--3b06--6f70--2dcb319d97ea-coalesce_8241ba22--3125--4f45--b3b1--254792a525c7_1']
Jul  8 14:59:34 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesced size = 316.035G
Jul  8 14:59:34 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesce candidate: *8241ba22[VHD](600.000G//88.477G|n) (tree height 5)
Jul  8 14:59:35 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesced size = 316.035G
Jul  8 14:59:35 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesce candidate: *8241ba22[VHD](600.000G//88.477G|a) (tree height 5)
Jul  8 14:59:35 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [20458] ['/sbin/lvremove', '-f', '/dev/VG_XenStorage-88d7607c-f807-3b06-6f70-2dcb319d97ea/coalesce_8241ba22-3125-4f45-b3b1-254792a525c7_1']
Jul  8 14:59:35 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [20458] ['/sbin/dmsetup', 'status', 'VG_XenStorage--88d7607c--f807--3b06--6f70--2dcb319d97ea-coalesce_8241ba22--3125--4f45--b3b1--254792a525c7_1']
Jul  8 14:59:36 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesced size = 316.035G
Jul  8 14:59:36 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesce candidate: *8241ba22[VHD](600.000G//88.477G|a) (tree height 5)
Jul  8 14:59:36 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [20458] ['/sbin/lvcreate', '-n', 'coalesce_8241ba22-3125-4f45-b3b1-254792a525c7_1', '-L', '4', 'VG_XenStorage-88d7607c-f807-3b06-6f70-2dcb319d97ea', '--addtag', 'journaler', '-W', 'n']
Jul  8 15:01:41 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458] Coalesced size = 316.035G
Jul  8 15:02:11 iahost-xcpng-server2 SMGC: [20458]   Running VHD coalesce on *8241ba22[VHD](600.000G//88.477G|a)
Jul  8 15:02:11 iahost-xcpng-server2 SM: [22617] ['/usr/bin/vhd-util', 'coalesce', '--debug', '-n', '/dev/VG_XenStorage-88d7607c-f807-3b06-6f70-2dcb319d97ea/VHD-8241ba22-3125-4f45-b3b1-254792a525c7']

olivierlambert

You shouldn't be nervous for a home lab You have backups right?

It means there's 34 VDIs that will be coalesced in the future. You can check if coalesce is working by looking at that number 34 and checks if it goes down.

If it doesn't, check the SM log to understand what's going on. Also, does a SR scan works?

rustylh

@olivierlambert So the count has gone down to 25. The host that all of these servers were on of course disconnected from the SR again. Is there a way to run the Garbage Collection and/or Coalesce on one host only? I was thinking if I move the VMs one at a time over to a host that has nothing else on it I could run that against a powered off VM to clean it up. Then move it to another host and power it back on. Then to the next and next until it's all cleaned up. Does that make sense?

olivierlambert

The number is going down: excellent news! Just be patient now

I would advise just to let it run, trying to outsmart the storage stack almost never works

rustylh

@olivierlambert What entry would I look for to see a successful and/or failed Coalesce? I'm looking at the SMlog.

olivierlambert

Usually "grep -i exception" on /var/log/SMlog will report failures. But as long you see the number going down, it's OK.

rustylh

@olivierlambert Thank you. It's just that the host that some of these VMs are on is disconnecting the SR from the host. So I have been shutting them down and moving them to another host and powering back on. I was just hoping I could finish the coalesce for them manually to prevent unknown downtimes.

rustylh

@olivierlambert Should I not worry about deleting any more of the extra 0B disk listed on the SR page Disks tab and just watch the number on this page?

olivierlambert

You have a rather long chain now, but it should coalesce anyway