Re: [one-users] Move VM or disk snapshot to another zone or machine
Thank you very much, I'll test a change of a VM disk. Best regards 2015-01-23 11:27 GMT+01:00 Carlos Martín Sánchez cmar...@opennebula.org: Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Manuel Alfonso López Rourich alfonso.lo...@cenits.es wrote: Good morning, I'd like to create a back-up copy of a VM and move it to another zone, so that if there is any problem I could restore the VM to a previous state. I found that in ONE 4.6 you can create a VM or a disk snapshot, and I saw that related snapshot files remain associated with the VM, in its own zone. What I'd like to do is to move those files to another zone (for example the disk snapshot image) or at least move them to another machine, to avoid those files to be in the same machine which has been used to deploy the zone. Is there any way to do that? what are the files associated with the snapshots? Thank you very much for your help. Best regards I think you could use a live disk snapshot [1] for that. OpenNebula will create a new Image in the same datastore as the original Image, and then you can clone that new img to a different DS [2] (in the same zone). Moving images to a different zone is not supported. To do that, you can take the image file from the DS, the file's path is stored in the SOURCE attribute shown in 'oneimage show id'. This will be straight forward for file-based datastores, not so much for other type of drivers. Then register a new image in the new zone as usual. Hope it helps [1] http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_resource_management/vm_guide_2.html#disk-snapshoting [2] http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_resource_management/img_guide.html#clone-images -- Carlos Martín, MSc Project Engineer OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple www.OpenNebula.org http://www.opennebula.org/ | cmar...@opennebula.org | @OpenNebula http://twitter.com/opennebula cmar...@opennebula.org ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
[one-users] Move VM or disk snapshot to another zone or machine
Good morning, I'd like to create a back-up copy of a VM and move it to another zone, so that if there is any problem I could restore the VM to a previous state. I found that in ONE 4.6 you can create a VM or a disk snapshot, and I saw that related snapshot files remain associated with the VM, in its own zone. What I'd like to do is to move those files to another zone (for example the disk snapshot image) or at least move them to another machine, to avoid those files to be in the same machine which has been used to deploy the zone. Is there any way to do that? what are the files associated with the snapshots? Thank you very much for your help. Best regards ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
Re: [one-users] Move VM or disk snapshot to another zone or machine
Hi, On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Manuel Alfonso López Rourich alfonso.lo...@cenits.es wrote: Good morning, I'd like to create a back-up copy of a VM and move it to another zone, so that if there is any problem I could restore the VM to a previous state. I found that in ONE 4.6 you can create a VM or a disk snapshot, and I saw that related snapshot files remain associated with the VM, in its own zone. What I'd like to do is to move those files to another zone (for example the disk snapshot image) or at least move them to another machine, to avoid those files to be in the same machine which has been used to deploy the zone. Is there any way to do that? what are the files associated with the snapshots? Thank you very much for your help. Best regards I think you could use a live disk snapshot [1] for that. OpenNebula will create a new Image in the same datastore as the original Image, and then you can clone that new img to a different DS [2] (in the same zone). Moving images to a different zone is not supported. To do that, you can take the image file from the DS, the file's path is stored in the SOURCE attribute shown in 'oneimage show id'. This will be straight forward for file-based datastores, not so much for other type of drivers. Then register a new image in the new zone as usual. Hope it helps [1] http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_resource_management/vm_guide_2.html#disk-snapshoting [2] http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_resource_management/img_guide.html#clone-images -- Carlos Martín, MSc Project Engineer OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple www.OpenNebula.org http://www.opennebula.org/ | cmar...@opennebula.org | @OpenNebula http://twitter.com/opennebula cmar...@opennebula.org ___ Users mailing list Users@lists.opennebula.org http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
