Re: Keeping snapshot when volume and instance is deleted

2019-02-01 Thread Dag Sonstebo
Hi Ip, Which version of CloudStack are you using? I just did a check in 4.11.2 with KVM - and volume snapshots remain after deletion of the VM instance / volume, so it seems it already does what you want? Regards, Dag Sonstebo Cloud Architect ShapeBlue On 01/02/2019, 03:15, "Cloud List" wr

Re: Keeping snapshot when volume and instance is deleted

2019-01-31 Thread Ivan Kudryavtsev
Hi, this is a case I also thinking about. It's like an icebox... the easiest way is to deploy cheap primary storage with specific tags, create small compute node in separate dedicated cluster for icebox account. Next, upon archiving transfer the __stopped__ vm to that account snd migrate volumes to

Keeping snapshot when volume and instance is deleted

2019-01-31 Thread Cloud List
Hi, I am using CloudStack with KVM hypervisor. I noted that a volume snapshot will be deleted when the volume (and instance using the volume) is deleted. Is it possible to keep the snapshot saved somewhere when the volume and instance are deleted? My goal is to have a backup copy of the data bef