[Users] iSCSI and snapshots

[Juan Pablo Lorier]

Hi Maor,

When I run the snapshot I get : "Snapshot antes de produccion creation
for VM NuevoVFTP was initiated by admin at internal."
and that's all I get.
Can you point me the log I must look for?
Here is a screenshot of the snapshot
Regards



On 04/06/13 05:07, Maor Lipchuk wrote:
> Hi Juan,
> When creating a snapshot, a new volume is should be created in the storage.
> The snapshot should contain the VM configuration and the VM disks (not
> including shareable disks and direct lun disks).
>
> Which Ovirt version are you using?
> What the audit log indicated? Was the operation succeeded?
> Can u please add a print screen of your VM and snapshot?
>
> Regards,
> Maor
>
>
> On 06/03/2013 10:07 PM, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
>> Hi Maor,
>>
>> The thing is that I trigger the snapshot creation and everything seems
>> to be ok, but I can't see any new volume of any kind. As the VM runs
>> from an iscsi lun, it can not use LVM snapshots as there's no spare
>> space to create any new LMV volume, neither I see any new volume in the
>> data storage domain (another iscsi lun) so I can't tell for sure that
>> the snapshot was really created.
>> Where are the volumes saved if the VM has no spare disks or space?
>> Regards,
>>
>> On 06/02/2013 03:07 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>> On 06/02/2013 02:27 PM, Maor Lipchuk wrote:
>>>> Hi Juan,
>>>> Snapshot saves the VM at a particular state in time using qcow (Creates
>>>> a new volume and only write the changes from that particular time).
>>>> Export domain also saves the VM data but it using copy process of the
>>>> volumes, there for, snapshot is more faster process but dependent on the
>>>> VM disks.
>>>>
>>>> In a nutshell the difference between the both are, that snapshot is more
>>>> related to the VM scope and can be executed while the VM is running
>>>> (From Ovirt 3.1)
>>>> Export domain is a different domain, there for, can be moved through
>>>> setups and DC's.
>>>>
>>>> The info of disks and ram should be displayed in the right pannel for
>>>> the VM snapshots, although, for now, marking the active snapshot will
>>>> not present this info.
>>>> Was that the case you encountered?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Maor
>>>>
>>>> On 05/31/2013 07:55 PM, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to understand how ovirt manages snapshots to start using them
>>>>> for vm backups. I have my vms to use a iscsi LUN for the system (each
>>>>> has its own) and I have no extra space to create an LVM snapshot in the
>>>>> VM disk.
>>>>> When I hit "create" in the vm snapshot tab, it creates the snapshot and
>>>>> reports ok, but I see no info in the right pannel (disk, ram,etc) and
>>>>> nothing is created in the data storage of the DC, so I don't get where
>>>>> is ovirt storing the snapshot data.
>>>>> Do I have to create an export storage domain?.
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Juan Pablo
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