oVirt: Unlock Virtual Disks

Ryan Parker Linux, oVirt, Virtualization October 25, 2018

So every now and then, a clone operation will break on oVirt. However, it will often leave the source machine in a locked state, unable to be used. Luckily, the solution is pretty simple. All you need to do is ssh into the oVirt-engine machine and run the following.

Unlock all disks 
/usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/dbutils/unlock_entity.sh -t all

Unlock specific VM disk 
/usr/share/ovirt-engine/setup/dbutils/unlock_entity.sh -t vm UUID_OF_VM

Just wait a little bit and the disks should be unlocked.

Tags: Ovirt, Virtualization

About: Ryan Parker

I'm a former captain of the Cyber Defense team, Current Infrastructure Security Specialist. I also have a side job helping small to medium business with anything technology doing everything imaginable. One of my hobbies is building out infrastructures for myself, friends, and clients. I current maintain a homelab with about 2TB of RAM, 180+ TB of storage, tons of CPU cores, and 100gbit networking backbone.

oVirt: Unlock Virtual Disks

About: Ryan Parker

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