Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-25 Thread Sean Dague
On 04/24/2016 10:15 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote: >> > > To clarify, live snapshots aren't disabled by default because they don't > work, it's because at least with libvirt 1.2.2 and QEMU 2.0 (which is > what we test against in the gate), we'd hit a lot of failures (about 25% > failure rate with the

Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-24 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 4/24/2016 2:09 AM, Saverio Proto wrote: We are in an even worst situation: we have flavors with 256GB of ram but only 100GB on the local hard disk, which means that we cannot snapshot VMs with this flavor. If there is any way to avoid saving the content of the ram to disk (or maybe there is

Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-24 Thread Antonio Messina
I actually have a card in my trello board to implement live snapshots, pointing to this link http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2015/02/09/openstack-perform-consistent-snapshots-with-qemu-guest-agent/ However, I haven't tested it yet. If you test it let me know how it goes. .a. On Sun, Apr 24,

Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-24 Thread Saverio Proto
> We are in an even worst situation: we have flavors with 256GB of ram > but only 100GB on the local hard disk, which means that we cannot > snapshot VMs with this flavor. > > If there is any way to avoid saving the content of the ram to disk (or > maybe there is a way to snapshot the ram to,

Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-23 Thread Antonio Messina
We are in an even worst situation: we have flavors with 256GB of ram but only 100GB on the local hard disk, which means that we cannot snapshot VMs with this flavor. If there is any way to avoid saving the content of the ram to disk (or maybe there is a way to snapshot the ram to, e.g., ceph), we

[Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-22 Thread Saverio Proto
Hello Operators, one of the users of our cluster opened a ticket about a snapshot corner case. It is not possible to snapshot a instance that is booted from volume when the instance is paused. So I wrote this patch, and from the discussion you can see that I learnt a lot about snapshots.