How to find the disk associated to a VM from XenServer CLI
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Description
While troubleshooting storage issues, we might need to get the VM's disk and its associated Virtual block devices . This article will help to get the desired details from the VM
Instructions
1. Go to the XenServer Console either via XenCenter or via SSH over a putty session2. Get the VM name-label for the VM for which we need to get the associated disks
3. Run the following command to see all the parametes related to the VM
#xe vm-disk-list vm=<VM name label>
Example output
xe vm-disk-list vm=Router Disk 0 VBD: uuid ( RO) : f0fdb48d-d22e-68e5-6f8b-67d60eeffb24 vm-name-label ( RO): Router userdevice ( RW): 0 Disk 0 VDI: uuid ( RO) : fca95c40-62d2-4bb9-86a0-cd5bc668d7f9 name-label ( RW): 0 sr-name-label ( RO): Local Storage virtual-size ( RO): 4294967296
VDI is the actual VHD files holding the Virtual machines data.
Here the VBD is the virtual block device which hold the association of a VDI to a Virtual Machine.
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