apache · sandeeplocharla · Jul 29, 2026 · Aug 6, 2026 · Aug 4, 2026 · Jul 9, 2026
diff --git a/.../storage/volume/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/volume/VolumeServiceImpl.java b/.../storage/volume/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/storage/volume/VolumeServiceImpl.java
@@ -765,7 +765,11 @@ protected Void managedCopyBaseImageCallback(AsyncCallbackDispatcher<VolumeServic
             volume.setPath(templateObjectTo.getPath());
 
             if (templateObjectTo.getFormat() != null) {
-                volume.setFormat(templateObjectTo.getFormat());
+                PrimaryDataStore primaryDataStore = context.getPrimaryDataStore();
+                boolean isOntapDataStore = primaryDataStore != null && DataStoreProvider.ONTAP_PLUGIN_NAME.equals(primaryDataStore.getStorageProviderName());
+                if (!isOntapDataStore || volume.getFormat() == null) {
+                    volume.setFormat(templateObjectTo.getFormat());
+                }
             }
 
             volDao.update(volume.getId(), volume);

diff --git a/...ypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor.java b/...ypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor.java
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ public class IscsiAdmStorageAdaptor implements StorageAdaptor {
 
     private static final Map<String, KVMStoragePool> MapStorageUuidToStoragePool = new HashMap<>();
 
+    /** iscsiadm's ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND: returned by "-m session" when no session is established. */
+    private static final int ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND = 21;
+
+    /** iscsiadm's ISCSI_ERR_SESS_EXISTS: returned by "--login" when the session is already logged in (e.g. Ubuntu). */
+    private static final int ISCSI_SESSION_EXISTS_CODE = 15;
+
     @Override
     public KVMStoragePool createStoragePool(String uuid, String host, int port, String path, String userInfo, StoragePoolType storagePoolType, Map<String, String> details, boolean isPrimaryStorage) {
         IscsiAdmStoragePool storagePool = new IscsiAdmStoragePool(uuid, host, port, storagePoolType, this);
@@ -90,12 +96,16 @@ public KVMPhysicalDisk createPhysicalDisk(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool
 
     @Override
     public boolean connectPhysicalDisk(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool, Map<String, String> details, boolean isVMMigrate) {
+        final String host = pool.getSourceHost();
+        final int port = pool.getSourcePort();
+        final String iqn = getIqn(volumeUuid);
+
         // ex. sudo iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2012-03.com.test:volume1 -p 192.168.233.10:3260 -o new
         Script iScsiAdmCmd = new Script(true, "iscsiadm", 0, logger);
 
         iScsiAdmCmd.add("-m", "node");
-        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-T", getIqn(volumeUuid));
-        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-p", pool.getSourceHost() + ":" + pool.getSourcePort());
+        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-T", iqn);
+        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-p", host + ":" + port);
         iScsiAdmCmd.add("-o", "new");
 
         String result = iScsiAdmCmd.execute();
@@ -122,28 +132,12 @@ public boolean connectPhysicalDisk(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool, Map<S
             }
         }
 
-        final String host = pool.getSourceHost();
-        final int port = pool.getSourcePort();
-        final String iqn = getIqn(volumeUuid);
-
-        // Always try to login; treat benign outcomes as success (idempotent)
-        iScsiAdmCmd = new Script(true, "iscsiadm", 0, logger);
-        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-m", "node");
-        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-T", iqn);
-        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-p", host + ":" + port);
-        iScsiAdmCmd.add("--login");
-
-        result = iScsiAdmCmd.execute();
-
-        if (!handleLoginResult(result, volumeUuid)) {
+        // Login is always attempted (idempotent). Rescan runs only if the session already existed
+        // before login (Oracle re-login exits 0; Ubuntu may return ISCSI_ERR_SESS_EXISTS).
+        if (!loginOrRescanExistingSession(iqn, host, port, volumeUuid)) {
             return false;
         }
 
-        // If the session already existed, a newly mapped LUN won't be visible until a rescan.
-        if (result != null) {
-            rescanIscsiSessions(iqn, host, port);
-        }
-
         // There appears to be a race condition where logging in to the iSCSI volume via iscsiadm
         // returns success before the device has been added to the OS.
         // What happens is you get logged in and the device shows up, but the device may not
@@ -154,7 +148,13 @@ public boolean connectPhysicalDisk(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool, Map<S
         // After a certain number of tries and a certain waiting period in between tries,
         // this method could still return (it should not block indefinitely) (the race condition
         // isn't solved here, but made highly unlikely to be a problem).
-        waitForDiskToBecomeAvailable(volumeUuid, pool);
+        // If the by-path is missing or is a regular file (not the iSCSI block symlink), size
+        // stays 0. Return false so connect does not succeed and a raw file is not created at
+        // that by-path in place of the real LUN device.
+        if (!waitForDiskToBecomeAvailable(volumeUuid, pool)) {
+            logger.warn("iSCSI device not ready for target {} at {}:{} after wait", volumeUuid, host, port);
+            return false;
+        }
 
         return true;
     }
@@ -178,23 +178,76 @@ boolean handleNodeCreateResult(String result, String volumeUuid) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Checks the result of an iscsiadm login command.
-     * Returns true if the login succeeded or session already exists, false on failure.
+     * Checks existing session state, performs login, and rescans only if the session already existed.
+     *
+     * Login is always attempted (idempotent). A pre-login session check is required on Oracle,
+     * where re-login often exits 0; Ubuntu may instead return ISCSI_ERR_SESS_EXISTS (15).
+     * Session-preexisted must be treated as success first: on Ubuntu, re-login exits 15 with a
+     * non-null error message that would otherwise be treated as failure.
+     *
+     * @return true if login succeeded (and rescan ran when needed), false on login failure
      */
-    boolean handleLoginResult(String result, String volumeUuid) {
-        if (result == null) {
-            logger.debug("Successfully logged in to iSCSI target {}", volumeUuid);
+    private boolean loginOrRescanExistingSession(String iqn, String host, int port, String volumeUuid) {
+        boolean sessionAlreadyActive = isIscsiSessionActive(iqn, host, port);
+        logger.debug("iSCSI session active check for target {} at {}:{}: {}", iqn, host, port, sessionAlreadyActive);
+
+        Script iScsiAdmCmd = new Script(true, "iscsiadm", 0, logger);
+        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-m", "node");
+        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-T", iqn);
+        iScsiAdmCmd.add("-p", host + ":" + port);
+        iScsiAdmCmd.add("--login");
+
+        String result = iScsiAdmCmd.execute();
+        boolean sessionPreExisted = (iScsiAdmCmd.getExitValue() == ISCSI_SESSION_EXISTS_CODE) || sessionAlreadyActive;
+
+        if (sessionPreExisted) {
+            logger.debug("iSCSI session for target {} at {}:{} pre-existed, performing rescan", iqn, host, port);
+            rescanIscsiSessions(iqn, host, port);
             return true;
         }
-        String msg = result.toLowerCase();
-        if (msg.contains("already present") || msg.contains("already logged in") || msg.contains("session exists")) {
-            logger.debug("iSCSI session already exists for target {}, proceeding", volumeUuid);
+        if (result == null) {
+            logger.debug("Successfully logged in to iSCSI target {}", volumeUuid);
             return true;
         }
         logger.debug("Failed to log in to iSCSI target {}: {}", volumeUuid, result);
         return false;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Checks whether a session to the given target and portal is already established.
+     *
+     * "iscsiadm -m session" exits with ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND when no session exists, which is a
+     * normal outcome here. Any other non-zero exit is logged and treated as not confirmed active.
+     */
+    private boolean isIscsiSessionActive(String iqn, String host, int port) {
+        Script sessionCmd = new Script(true, "iscsiadm", 0, logger);
+        sessionCmd.add("-m", "session");
+
+        OutputInterpreter.AllLinesParser parser = new OutputInterpreter.AllLinesParser();
+        sessionCmd.executeIgnoreExitValue(parser, ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND);
+        int exitValue = sessionCmd.getExitValue();
+        if (exitValue != 0 && exitValue != ISCSI_ERR_NO_OBJS_FOUND) {
+            logger.warn("Unable to determine iSCSI session state for target {} at {}:{}: 'iscsiadm -m session' exited with {}",
+                    iqn, host, port, exitValue);
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        String sessions = parser.getLines();
+        if (StringUtils.isBlank(sessions)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        // AllLinesParser uses BufferedReader.readLine() (strips \n, \r\n, and \r) and then
+        // appends "\n" after each session. split("\n") depends on that separator to walk
+        // one session per line when multiple sessions are listed.
+        for (String line : sessions.split("\n")) {
+            if (line.contains(iqn) && line.contains(host)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     private void rescanIscsiSessions(String iqn, String host, int port) {
         Script rescanCmd = new Script(true, "iscsiadm", 0, logger);
         rescanCmd.add("-m", "node");
@@ -209,19 +262,23 @@ private void rescanIscsiSessions(String iqn, String host, int port) {
         }
     }
 
-    private void waitForDiskToBecomeAvailable(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool) {
+    private boolean waitForDiskToBecomeAvailable(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool) {
         int numberOfTries = 10;
         int timeBetweenTries = 1000;
+        long deviceSize = 0;
 
-        while (getPhysicalDisk(volumeUuid, pool).getSize() == 0 && numberOfTries > 0) {
+        while ((deviceSize = getPhysicalDisk(volumeUuid, pool).getSize()) == 0 && numberOfTries > 0) {
             numberOfTries--;
 
             try {
                 Thread.sleep(timeBetweenTries);
-            } catch (Exception ex) {
-                // don't do anything
+            } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
+                logger.warn("Interrupted while waiting for iSCSI device {} to become available", volumeUuid, ex);
+                return false;
             }
         }
+
+        return deviceSize > 0;
     }
 
     private void waitForDiskToBecomeUnavailable(String host, int port, String iqn, String lun) {
@@ -290,8 +347,17 @@ public KVMPhysicalDisk getPhysicalDisk(String volumeUuid, KVMStoragePool pool) {
 
     private long getDeviceSize(String deviceByPath) {
         try {
-            if (!Files.exists(Paths.get(deviceByPath))) {
-                logger.debug("Device by-path does not exist yet: " + deviceByPath);
+            Path devicePath = Paths.get(deviceByPath);
+            if (!Files.exists(devicePath)) {
+                logger.debug("Device by-path does not exist yet: {}", deviceByPath);
+                return 0L;
+            }
+            if (Files.isRegularFile(devicePath)) {
+                logger.warn("Found a corrupt regular file at iSCSI by-path {} (expected block device symlink); it must be removed manually", deviceByPath);
+                return 0L;
+            }
+            if (!Files.isSymbolicLink(devicePath)) {
+                logger.warn("Path {} exists but is not an iSCSI block device symlink", deviceByPath);
                 return 0L;
             }
         } catch (Exception ex) {

diff --git a/...hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStoragePoolManager.java b/...hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/KVMStoragePoolManager.java
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ public synchronized boolean deleteStoragePool(StoragePoolType type, String uuid)
         if (type == StoragePoolType.NetworkFilesystem) {
             _haMonitor.removeStoragePool(uuid);
         }
-        boolean deleteStatus = adaptor.deleteStoragePool(uuid);;
+        boolean deleteStatus = adaptor.deleteStoragePool(uuid);
         synchronized (_storagePools) {
             _storagePools.remove(uuid);
         }
@@ -457,10 +457,12 @@ public synchronized boolean deleteStoragePool(StoragePoolType type, String uuid)
 
     public boolean deleteStoragePool(StoragePoolType type, String uuid, Map<String, String> details) {
         StorageAdaptor adaptor = getStorageAdaptor(type);
+        // For NetworkFilesystem, libvirt will take care of unmounting the nfs mount. If nfs mount has been removed before libvirt's pool
+        // delete, libvirt will throw an error.
+        boolean deleteStatus = adaptor.deleteStoragePool(uuid, details);
         if (type == StoragePoolType.NetworkFilesystem) {
             _haMonitor.removeStoragePool(uuid);
         }
-        boolean deleteStatus = adaptor.deleteStoragePool(uuid, details);
         synchronized (_storagePools) {
             _storagePools.remove(uuid);
         }

diff --git a/...hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java b/...hypervisors/kvm/src/main/java/com/cloud/hypervisor/kvm/storage/LibvirtStorageAdaptor.java
@@ -891,6 +891,11 @@ private boolean destroyStoragePoolHandleException(Connect conn, String uuid)
         return false;
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public boolean deleteStoragePool(String uuid, Map<String, String> details) {
+        return deleteStoragePool(uuid);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public boolean deleteStoragePool(String uuid) {
         logger.info("Attempting to remove storage pool " + uuid + " from libvirt");

diff --git a/plugins/storage/volume/ontap/README.md b/plugins/storage/volume/ontap/README.md
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The NetApp ONTAP Storage Plugin provides integration between Apache CloudStack a
 
 ### Minimum Volume Size
 
-ONTAP requires a minimum volume size of **1.56 GB** (1,677,721,600 bytes). The plugin will automatically adjust requested sizes below this threshold.
+ONTAP requires a minimum volume size of **20 MB** (20,971,520 bytes). Requests below this threshold are rejected.
 
 ## Configuration
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ username=admin;password=secretpass;svmName=svm1;protocol=ISCSI;managementLIF=192
 
 3. **Capacity Errors**
     - Check aggregate space availability
-    - Ensure requested volume size meets minimum requirements (1.56 GB)
+    - Ensure requested volume size meets minimum requirements (20 MB)
 
 4. **Host Connection Issues**
     - For iSCSI: Verify host IQN is properly configured in host's storage URL