Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-24 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 4/24/2016 2:09 AM, Saverio Proto wrote: We are in an even worst situation: we have flavors with 256GB of ram but only 100GB on the local hard disk, which means that we cannot snapshot VMs with this flavor. If there is any way to avoid saving the content of the ram to disk (or maybe there is a

Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-24 Thread Antonio Messina
I actually have a card in my trello board to implement live snapshots, pointing to this link http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2015/02/09/openstack-perform-consistent-snapshots-with-qemu-guest-agent/ However, I haven't tested it yet. If you test it let me know how it goes. .a. On Sun, Apr 24, 201

Re: [Openstack-operators] nova snapshots should dump all RAM to hypervisor disk ?

2016-04-24 Thread Saverio Proto
> We are in an even worst situation: we have flavors with 256GB of ram > but only 100GB on the local hard disk, which means that we cannot > snapshot VMs with this flavor. > > If there is any way to avoid saving the content of the ram to disk (or > maybe there is a way to snapshot the ram to, e.g.,