I thought we were taking about running OmniOS inside of vmware. My mistake. On Apr 24, 2013 8:08 AM, "Nicholas George" <headless...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan's exactly right. After the ZFS snapshot, you can actually remove the > VMware snapshot as well since it's only purpose is to exist in the ZFS > snapshot so that you can roll back to it after recovering the VM from the > ZFS snapshot. > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswa...@druber.com>wrote: > >> > Wouldn't you want to snapshot the ZFS system and then quiesce and >> snapshot >> > the VM? >> > >> > Step one: zfs snapshot; step two: make it not a lie. >> >> Because the VM snapshot would not be against the ZFS snapshot, but rather, >> the live filesystem. So you take a hot snap (VMware), then a zfs snap. >> If you have to roll back, you can restore the entire VM directory, which >> would present you with the VM snapshot to then roll back to. >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > OmniOS-discuss mailing list > OmniOS-discuss@lists.omniti.com > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > >
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