Fwd: Lost of a KVM host with VMs on Local storage

2022-09-28 Thread Antoine Boucher
Adding mailing list. > > > From: Antoine Boucher > Subject: Re: Lost of a KVM host with VMs on Local storage > Date: September 28, 2022 at 1:30:30 PM EDT > To: Nux > > Hi Nux, > > Thank you for your response. The template path would be acceptable. As for &

Re: Lost of a KVM host with VMs on Local storage

2022-09-28 Thread Nux
Hi, Ideally you would have a full baremetal backup of the hypervisor if using local storage. If that is not a possibility, then you could convert the volume snapshot of the VM into a template and deploy it on the desired hypervisor. You will not be able to "revert to snapshot" if your hypervi

Lost of a KVM host with VMs on Local storage

2022-09-28 Thread Antoine Boucher
Hello, We have a few high iops VMs running on local storage on some of our KVM hosts. We backup (snapshots) these VMs on a regular basis on secondary storage. In the event of a compete KVM host failure. What would be the best practice to clean-up and restart the VMs from backups to a new ho