Andrija, You can still do volume snapshotting with KVM, works fine. http://www.nux.ro/archive/2014/01/Taking_KVM_volume_snapshots_with_Cloudstack_4_2_on_CentOS_6_5.html
All we need is a way to quickly restore the volume, some guys at leaseweb were working on something like this, hope to see this feature in future versions. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrija Panic" <andrija.pa...@gmail.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Friday, 31 October, 2014 09:37:49 > Subject: Re: XenServer > My vote also for KVM snapshooting - having all the nice fetaures, but > without basic virtualization stuff like snapshotting - it simply drives me > and our client nuts... > > On 31 October 2014 10:03, Andrei Mikhailovsky <and...@arhont.com> wrote: > >> Is there a feature request for this support or should we open one? I would >> like to see this implemented for KVM. >> >> Andrei >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> > From: "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> >> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 11:25:10 PM >> > Subject: Re: XenServer >> >> > Andrei, I am hopeful the next incarnation of XenServer will be much >> > better/modern, with support for CEPH, GlusterFS etc. >> >> > Re KVM snapshotting, KVM can do live snapshots of the volumes+memory >> > (you can do it with "virsh"), but ACS doesn't support it; forgot >> > why. >> >> > Lucian >> >> > -- >> > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> > Nux! >> > www.nux.ro >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > From: "Andrei Mikhailovsky" <and...@arhont.com> >> > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> > > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 21:24:06 >> > > Subject: Re: XenServer >> >> > > I would happily switch to XenServer once they will have ceph >> > > support. I do >> > > prefer XenServer and the feature list of ACS + XenServer is a bit >> > > better. >> > > >> > > It sucks not having proper snapshotting in KVM where one can create >> > > the whole vm >> > > snapshot (volumes + memory) very quickly without the need to bother >> > > snapshotting every volume and wait for ages. >> > > >> > > Andrei >> > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > > >> > >> From: "motty cruz" <motty.c...@gmail.com> >> > >> To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> > >> Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 8:43:32 PM >> > >> Subject: Re: XenServer >> > > >> > >> I am no expert by any means but my personal opinion, I really like >> > >> XenServer a lot better. I have a cluster of about 5 machines >> > >> running >> > >> KVM, >> > >> ACS 4.3. I unable to do snapshot, migrating VMs from one host to >> > >> another >> > >> takes a long time. I had a very bad experience with "Balloon >> > >> driver", >> > >> I am >> > >> traumatize using KVM. >> > > >> > >> XenServer don't need to install cloudstack agent is already >> > >> integrated. I >> > >> am very happy with XenServer. I still need to work out a few >> > >> lingering >> > >> issues but thus far am a happy person. >> > > >> > >> Thanks, >> > >> -Motty >> > > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Andrei Mikhailovsky >> > >> <and...@arhont.com> >> > >> wrote: >> > > >> > >> > I wold love to see the ability to do proper snapshotting on KVM. >> > >> > XenServer >> > >> > does it so much better! >> > >> > >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > >> > >> > >> > > From: "Vladimir Melnik" <v.mel...@uplink.ua> >> > >> > > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org >> > >> > > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 8:09:17 PM >> > >> > > Subject: RE: XenServer >> > >> > >> > >> > > Oh, thank you so much, folks, for your replies on this topic! >> > >> > > Now >> > >> > > I >> > >> > > understand that I shouldn't migrate to XenServer, as I already >> > >> > > have >> > >> > > a bunch of hosts running KVM and it really won't be a good >> > >> > > idea >> > >> > > to >> > >> > > bread such a zoo. >> > >> > >> > >> > > The only thing that makes me feel envy is an ability to change >> > >> > > configuration of a virtual machine without restarting it. As I >> > >> > > know, >> > >> > > KVM doesn't support it yet, am I right? Other XenServer >> > >> > > features >> > >> > > don't seem to be so exciting to me :) >> > >> > >> > >> > > One more time - thanks to all who have helped me to decide not >> > >> > > to >> > >> > > do >> > >> > > something that I would regret. >> > >> > >> > >> > > Best regards, >> > >> > > V. >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> -- >> > >> Thanks for your support, >> > > > Motty >> > > > > -- > > Andrija Panić > -------------------------------------- > http://admintweets.com > --------------------------------------
