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    leaf-coalesce: EXCEPTION. " Unexpected bump in size"

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      topsecret @ronan-a
      last edited by topsecret

      @ronan-a This cluster based on Huawei CH121 V5 servers with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5120T CPU @ 2.20GHz, 320 Gb RAM and Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6138T CPU @ 2.00GHz, 512 Gb RAM. We have more than a half free RAM and CPU on each server according to Xen Orchestra. SAS storage free capacity is about 45% (17Tb).
      Problem disks capacity are about 2Tb
      We can't stop virtual machines, it affects productive service

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        topsecret
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        I powered off one VM with two 2Tb disks, overall coalesce time was about 3-4 hours.

        Running VM still has VDI to coalesce. I found proccess "/usr/bin/vhd-util coalesce --debug -n /dev/VG_XenStorage-de024eb7-ce14-5487-e229-7ca321b103a2/VHD-b5d6ab41-50dc-4116-a23c-e453b93ce161"
        Can I run it again to parallel coalesce process?

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          O_V_K @topsecret
          last edited by

          Hello!

          Same error " Unexpected bump in size" on different servers with xcp-ng 8.2.0.
          Hardware RAID5 and RAID10 used, with 8 SDD DC500M-DC600M. Only power off VM, Rescan, and wait about 8-10 minutes helps. Any solution or any updates can solve the problem?

          Thank you!

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by olivierlambert

            Hi,

            Your SR is probably coalescing slower than you are adding data to your disk in live, and can't catch up.

            You might try to use CBT-enabled backup with XO to reduce the snapshot size.

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              O_V_K @olivierlambert
              last edited by

              Thank you!

              But, disk IO operations is very low during coalescing. All users are logged off from the server.

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                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                last edited by

                So I can only suppose it's a Windows guest? Those guest are always writing a non-negligible quantity, and if your coalesce speed is slower than this, then, the coalesce process will detect data has grown faster than it merged, and it will fail.

                There's another possibility, to modify some coalesce timing to be more aggressive, that might solve it on your end.

                Following an old feedback on Github, you can try those values: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/298#issuecomment-557805054

                stormi created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                closed XCP-ng 8.0 / CH 8.0 coalesce issues #298

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                  O_V_K @olivierlambert
                  last edited by

                  Thank you!

                  Yes, Windows VMs with guest tools installed.

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                  • olivierlambertO Offline
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                    last edited by

                    Keep us posted on the result 🙂

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                      O_V_K @olivierlambert
                      last edited by

                      Dependig on hardware, any xcp-ng 8.2.0 host must be modified, if it running Windows VMs? My xcp-ng 8.2.0 host servers has powerful disk system, based on SSD and hardware RAID controller with onboard cache.

                      Thank you!

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                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                        last edited by

                        No, it really depends on many factors. There's no universal tuning.

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