I am using on NFS, and working good on vm snapshot . I guess Ceph have comparatively poor on performance right ?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:34 PM Matthew Ritchie <ritchie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > thank you for your answer!... and that was what I was afraid of :-) > > I guess that it will be very difficult to put KVM in production and then > tell the clients that a VM snapshot is not possible. > Not to mention that in our case, the high Solidfire cost imposes a better > use. > > I know that this is not the right list to ask but is there a roadmap > regarding this feature to be supported, by qemu I suppose? > > Regards, > Matt > > > On 2021/02/16 14:19:45, Peter Klein <p...@untangledtechnology.com> wrote: > > Hi Matt,> > > > > We run Cloudstack + KVM + Ceph. We haven't had any luck getting > > > snapshots to work but the alternative we've settled on for now is to > > > take snapshots of the storage volume instead of the VM itself. Restoring > > > > from a snapshot this way is pretty cumbersome as you need to create a > > > template from the storage snapshot and then create a "new" VM instance > > > using that template.> > > > > > > Thanks,> > > > > Peter> > > > > On 2/16/21 09:04, Matthew Ritchie wrote:> > > > Hi everyone,> > > >> > > > I am working on a Cloudstack + KVM + Solidfire PoC and as far as I> > > > understand it is not possible to get a VM snapshot using SF as a > primary> > > > storage.> > > >> > > > I wanted to ask the community what is the recommended way to get a VM> > > > snapshot when one is using Cloudstack + KVM + (some block storage > solution)?> > > >> > > > As it is crucial to provide to clients the "VM snapshot" capability I > guess> > > > there will be some sort of experience on that matter.> > > >> > > > thanks in advance> > > > Matt> > > >> > > > -- Regards, Hean Seng
