419530 - hot clone fx-win32-tbox

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

Please create a hot clone of fx-win32-tbox. The new hostname could be fxtest-win32-tbox, we don't want to keep it permanently but may need it for a few days at least.

Comment 1

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

The only array that has space is the fcal shelf.

fx-win32-tbox is on the fcal shelf.  The hot replication tool won't let me clone a VM onto the same storage device (since it's a clone, the src and destination directory names are the same). 

If this is temporary, I can clone to local disk or to cb-vmware01 which has > 300GB available.

Comment 2

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> The only array that has space is the fcal shelf.
> 
> fx-win32-tbox is on the fcal shelf.  The hot replication tool won't let me
> clone a VM onto the same storage device (since it's a clone, the src and
> destination directory names are the same). 
> If this is temporary, I can clone to local disk or to cb-vmware01 which has >
> 300GB available.

Either is fine with me..

Comment 3

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Fired off clone...

Comment 4

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

mrz: yes, this is just a temporary need, so that Ted can debug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418865#c7 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418865#c8.

Comment 5

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

This isn't working as well as other live clones - it's either failing or taking only seconds to clone (and failing to boot because there aren't any disks to boot off of).

Working on it...

Comment 6

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Hot clone is failing - it's failing to take the snapshot because the disks are configured as independent disks.  I'm working with the vendor on this.

Comment 7

[matthew zeier [:mrz]]

Waiting on you guys to give me a reboot window.

Comment 8

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Now that we're past the freeze, and we have a potential fix in bug 418865, I'm just going to WONTFIX this. We'll try our fix on the nightly box. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we didn't know this was going to be so difficult!