Yep.  The purpose of quiescing is exactly as described in that document:  
taking a backup without powering off the VM.


David La Motta
Technical Marketing Engineer
Citrix Solutions

NetApp
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On Jun 17, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Edison Su 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:



-----Original Message-----
From: La Motta, David [mailto:[email protected]<http://netapp.com>]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:37 AM
To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: enableStorageMaintenance

Along the same lines... is there a REST command coming in 4.2 to quiesce one
or multiple virtual machines?

Quiesce means quiesce guest VM file system? Like 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1015180
4.2 will support VM snapshot for vmware, but don't know it sets quiesce flag to 
1 or not.



David La Motta
Technical Marketing Engineer
Citrix Solutions

NetApp
919.476.5042
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On Jun 14, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "La Motta, David"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>>
 wrote:

...works great for putting down the storage into maintenance mode (looking
forward seeing this for secondary storage as well!).

Now the question is, after I've run it... how do I know when it is done so I can
operate on the volume?

Poll using updateStoragePool and query the state for "Maintenance"?  What
about introducing the ability to pass in callback URLs to the REST call?

Thx.



David La Motta
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Citrix Solutions

NetApp
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