[ovirt-users] Where are snapshots stored when using block storage?

Tal Nisan tnisan at redhat.com
Tue Jan 26 13:39:15 UTC 2016


Hi Cristian,
Yes, a new LV is created for the snapshot, you can see the new created LV
by logging to the host and running:
# pvscan --cache
# lvs
You will see all the LVs including the new one in the VG that goes by the
same name as the storage domain containing the disk


On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Cristian Mammoli <c.mammoli at apra.it> wrote:

> Hi, has far as I understand when using block storage disk images are just
> logical volumes. So what happens when I snapshot a VM? a new LV is created
> or what? I tried to poke around in my test env without success.
>
> Thank you
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