[one-users] OpenNebula 3.8.3 Failed to Delete VM on ESXi Host

Tue Jul 16 15:57:17 PDT 2013

Hi Tino,

Thanks a lot for the pointer. I replaced the ~/var/remotes/tm/vmfs
directory with the one from 4.0.1, and now it is trying to delete files in
the correct datastore. However, it still can not delete the files on ESXi.

I do have the correct oneadmin user and permissions on ESXi.

I am using the API instead of SSH to communicate with VMFS.  When trying
to delete the VM, I got the following message in vm.log:

Wed Jul 17 06:43:39 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 Driver command for
104 cancelled
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 Command execution
fail: /srv/cloud/one/var/remotes/tm/vmfs/delete
vmw01:/vmfs/volumes/103/104/disk.0 104 102
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 delete: Deleting
/vmfs/volumes/103/104/disk.0
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104
/srv/cloud/one/var/remotes/tm/vmfs/delete: line 88: disk_type: command not
found
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG E 104 delete: Command "vifs
--server vmw01 --username Administrator --password MyVMWarePassword
--force --rm [103]104/disk.0/disk-flat.vmdk" failed: Unable to delete
[103] 104/disk.0/disk-flat.vmdk:
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 Error caused by file
/vmfs/volumes/51dd0f09-355621d0-6d8c-001b21cfaf45/104/disk.0/disk-flat.vmdk
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG E 104 Cannot delete
[103]104/disk.0/disk-flat.vmdk in vmw01
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 ExitCode: 1
Wed Jul 17 06:43:41 2013 [TM][W]: Ignored: TRANSFER FAILURE 104 Cannot
delete [103]104/disk.0/disk-flat.vmdk in vmw01
Wed Jul 17 06:43:44 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: LOG D 104 cancel: Successfully
canceled domain one-104.
Wed Jul 17 06:43:44 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 ExitCode: 0
Wed Jul 17 06:43:44 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 Successfully execute
virtualization driver operation: cancel.
Wed Jul 17 06:43:44 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 ExitCode: 0
Wed Jul 17 06:43:44 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: LOG I 104 Successfully execute
network driver operation: clean.
Wed Jul 17 06:43:44 2013 [VMM][W]: Ignored: CANCEL SUCCESS 104 -

As you can see, in ~/etc/vmwarerc I have Administrator user (instead of
oneadmin) to communicate with ESXi. (But I do have the oneadmin user on
ESXi) Is this a problem?

Thanks a lot.

Chen Xiang

> Hi Chen Xiang,

> You are right , there are several bugs in the 3.8.3 VMFS drivers. I
> recommend updating to 3.8.4 at least, and ideally to 4.0.1.
>
> About the permissions problems, you should create an ESX user
> 'oneadmin' with the same UID as 'oneadmin' in the front-end.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> -Tino
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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:48 PM,  <chenxiang at aquala-tech.com> wrote:
>> I looked into the related source code in 4.0. It seems that the DSID
>> problem was fixed in 4.0. How about permission problem?
>>
>> Can I simple overwrite the 3.8.4 version ~/var/remotes/tm/vmfs directory
>> with the one from 4.0?
>>
>> Chen Xiang
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am running OpenNebula 3.8.3 with VMFS. However, I am not able to
>>> delete
>>> the VM files from the ESXi Host, although the VM seems to be deleted
>>> from
>>> OpenNebula.
>>>
>>> My setup is that I have an image DS 102, and a system DS 103. When
>>> trying
>>> to delete a VM, I can see that OpenNebula is trying to delete the VM
>>> image
>>> from DS 102 rather than 103. I look into ~/var/remotes/tm/vmfs/delete,
>>> and
>>> manually change the DSID to 103 (this is not a good fix), and now
>>> OpenNebula is trying to delete the VM images from DS 103, which is
>>> correct. However, the delete script was not able to delete the files,
>>> still!
>>>
>>> I look into ~/var/vms/$VMID/vm.log, and the log says that it was not
>>> able
>>> to delete disk-flat.vmdk on the ESXi box.
>>>
>>> I look into /vmfs/volumes/103/$VMID/disk.0, and found that the two VMDK
>>> files have rw permissions for root user and no permissions for others,
>>> and
>>> other files have rw permissons for root user and r permission for group
>>> members and guest.
>>>
>>> I log into the ESXi box, and was able to delete the files with root
>>> users.
>>>
>>> In ~/etc/vmwarerc I have the root username and password.
>>>
>>> What could be wrong? Do I miss some executable permissions on the ESXi
>>> box?
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> Chen Xiang
>>>
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