Haha, Yeah that's tomorrow, I have a test vm I will be testing on. I shall report back! Thank you all!
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Fajar A. Nugraha <fa...@fajar.net> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Gregory Durham > <gregory.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Arnaud, > > The virtual machines coming up as if they were on is the least of my > > worries, my biggest worry is keeping the filesystems of the vms alive > i.e. > > not corrupt. > > As Tim said, The snapshot disk are in the same state they would be in > if you pulled the power plug. > This is also the same thing you got BTW if you use LVM snapshot (on > Linux) or SAN/NAS based snapshots (like NetApp) > > > In the case of exchange, I have exchange itself on a raw lun in physical > > compatibility mode, and I have 2 LUNs mounted with the Server 2008 iSCSI > > initiator for logs and the exchange DB. > > Most modern filesystem and database have journaling that can recover > from power failure scenarios, so they should be able to use the > snapshot and provide consistent, non-corrupt information. > > So the question now is, have you tried restoring from snapshot? > > -- > Fajar >
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