[ovirt-users] Scheduled Snapshot and export

[Anantha Raghava]

Thank you very much Alexander


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Thanks & Regards,


Anantha Raghava

eXza Technology Consulting & Services


On Wednesday 18 January 2017 12:26 AM, Alexander Wels wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 11:21:17 PM EST Anantha Raghava wrote:
>> Hello Daniel,
>>
>> Thanks for inputs.
>>
>> Also, one more problem we observed in 4.0.5. When creating VM, we cannot
>> change the CPU, sockets, cores. It will not allow us to change anything.
>> We have to save the VM during creation with 1 vCPU. Again, edit VM and
>> change the vCPU parameters. Have you or anyone observed this behaviour?
>>
> The cause of that is actually same, this is fixed in 4.0.6
>
>>> I don’t know of a function built into oVirt for scheduling snapshots.
>>> If you don’t already you may want to setup an export domain (NFS
>>> based), on separate storage.
>>>
>>> Just a reminder: snapshots are not backups and they should only be
>>> kept temporarily. We use this tool for backups:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/wefixit-AT/oVirtBackup
>>>
>>> It’s not the most efficient as it clones a VM from a snapshot, then
>>> exports the clone – so you’re transferring the same data twice. But it
>>> works for our purposes. We have this running in a cron job.
>>>
>>> If anyone has come up with a script that uses the newer API to export
>>> a snapshot directly, please share!
>>>
>>> We get the same error when adding a disk while creating the VM (In
>>> Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on OS X Sierra client). This is reportedly
>>> fixed in 4.0.6 per this bug:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1394175
>>>
>>> Could someone with 4.0.6 confirm that?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> *From: *<users-bounces at ovirt.org> on behalf of Anantha Raghava
>>> <raghav at exzatechconsulting.com>
>>> *Organization: *eXza Technology Consulting & Services
>>> *Reply-To: *"raghav at exzatechconsulting.com"
>>> <raghav at exzatechconsulting.com>
>>> *Date: *Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 8:27 AM
>>> *To: *"users at ovirt.org" <users at ovirt.org>
>>> *Subject: *[ovirt-users] Scheduled Snapshot and export
>>>
>>> Hello to oVirt Users,
>>>
>>> I have few questions.
>>>
>>>
>>> a. Can we schedule the VM snapshots? If yes, please share the procedure
>>> b. Snapshots are stored on the same storage domain. Can we move them
>>> to another storage domain say NFS domain for additional safety? If,
>>> yes, please share the procedure.
>>>
>>> Also, after upgrading to version 4.0.5, at many places, especially
>>> when we are creating a new VM and trying to create a new Disk for the
>>> VM, we keep getting "uncought exception" and the process will not
>>> complete. We have to create a VM, without Disk and then create the
>>> disk separately and attach it to VM.
>>>
>>> Is anyone else facing this issue? These sort of issues were not there
>>> in 4.0.4.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>
>>> Anantha Raghava
>>>
>>> eXza Technology Consulting & Services
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