>> VMware is limited in the number of mounts and creating a mount for >> each VM (so I can have independant VM snapshots) makes manageability v> difficult at best > >You can do that. > >For example I have a zpool md1000-1 with a zfs dataset vm_data1 >mounted on /export/vm_data1 and shared via NFS to my ESX hosts. I >create another dataset called md1000-1/vm_data1/vdi_master and it will >be under the share and visible to the ESX hosts. I then take a >snapshot call it vdi_mas...@host1, then clone it to md1000-1/vm_data1/ >host1 and it too will be under the share and visible to the ESX hosts. >I can then keep snapshotting and cloning vdi_master to make as many as >I need without adding any additional NFS shares. > >You can then send/recv updates of the vdi_master to all it's clones >whenever there is a major upgrade.
what opensolaris release do you use? can anybody confirm that this really works? last time i tried this it did NOT work and i wonder what`s the whole discussion about at http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=402018 then -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
