Hi Fariborz, I want to add to Simon's answer that also linstor storage plugin supports live snapshots and not only NFS storage.
regards, Swen -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jithin Raju <[email protected]> Gesendet: Montag, 30. Oktober 2023 09:32 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Live Instance Backup Hi Fariborz, The setting must be : kvm.vmstoragesnapshot.enabled. In case you are looking for volume snapshots: kvm.snapshot.enabled . -Jithin From: Fariborz Navidan <[email protected]> Date: Monday, 30 October 2023 at 12:49 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Live Instance Backup Hello, Thanks a lot for your reply. Could you please let me know what is the setting nams in CloudStack? TIA On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, 04:37 Simon Weller, <[email protected]> wrote: > Fariborz, > > KVM does support live (running) snapshots, but it's dependent on the > underlying storage you're using. Currently, only NFS supports live > snaps, as KVM stores the memory in a QCOW2 image. > > There's a global option to enable this feature in CloudStack. > > -Si > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 6:02 AM Fariborz Navidan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi CS community, > > > > We're running CS 4.15.0.0 and KVM hypervisor. It doesn't support > > live instance backups. Does the latest version of CS and KVM/QEMU > > have this feature in place? > > > > TIA > > Cheers. > > >
