The reason we didn’t do that (put the VM disk images on the external storage) was more related to the complexity (breaking our design rules) of presenting another storage pool to our VM environment from the external storage. That being said, without our design rules in place, we could have presented a storage pool from the external storage to our VM infrastructure and done exactly as you propose.
The rationale for us is that the storage that hosts our VM disk images is quite robust (dual controllers), and we choose not to use our external storage (which doesn’t have the same dual controller redundancy) for running VM disk images so that if we need to take it off line for patching, there’s zero impact. > On Dec 18, 2019, at 02:08, orsomannaro <orsomann...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 16/12/19 16:54, Ray Frush wrote: >> I run BackupPC as a VM in my environment which backs up all of the other > 8< > > Exactly the same configuration for me, now. > > But I'm asking myself: why don't put the entire VM in the external storage? > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
