OVM with Falconstor/Ipstor disks

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone worked with OVM in an environment that uses Falconstor/IPStor for their disk management? I am currently trying to figure out how to expand virtual disk assigned to a VM. The admin expanded it on the Falconstor side, but the disk on the VM is not showing the added space. I also can see the added space on the OVM server, but the VM does not. Do I need to reboot the VM to have it see the space? I was hoping to avoid that, if possible.
Any help or links to docs that would help, are appreciated.
Thank you

Avi Miller wrote:
914457 wrote:
But when I run tunefs.ocfs2 -S /dev/xvde to increase the size, it doesn't do anything on the VM, and when I am on the VM Server, I see the disk which is named /dev/sdn. Do I have to reboot the VM to see the size increase? Inside of the vm.cfg for the VM the disk is presented by: 'phy:/dev/sdn,xvde,w!' under the disk= portion of the vm.cfgOk, so the disk is visible to the Oracle VM Server, which means your DBA should have presented it via the UI. However, this may not have been possible if the disks don't get discovered by ovs-agent. So, you probably will have to reboot the VMs to see the size increase because you're using disk systems that we've never tested. As this is a 3rd party disk system, I doubt very much if the disk space increase gets passed directly into the guest(s).
Edited because I assumed you were running Oracle VM 3.0, not 2.2, but your other thread suggests otherwise: You will have to reboot the VMs to see the increase in storage for your guests in 2.2.
Edited by: Avi Miller on Feb 15, 2012 9:07 AMThank you for you help on this. Is the upgrade from 2.2 to 3 very difficult, besides the vm down time? Or are you able to run both vm 2.2 and vm3 on the same host server? I will also research this, so if you have any docs you would suggest, the advice would be appreciated.
Thanks again.

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