Hi Slavka, Thanks! Another question, I understand that Storage-based Instance Snapshots on KVM does not support memory snapshot.
Are there any workaround to allow memory snapshot? Still using KVM and Linstor Regards, Bryan On 16 Nov 2023 at 3:21 PM +0800, Slavka Peleva <[email protected]>, wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > Yes, you need qemu-guest-agent to be installed. This operation creates a > volume snapshot for each volume that is attached to the VM while the > virtual machine is frozen. > Storage-based Instance Snapshots on KVM > <https://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/adminguide/virtual_machines.html#storage-based-instance-snapshots-on-kvm> > > Best regards, > Slavka > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 7:47 AM Bryan Tiang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hey Swen, > > > > Thanks for this. But for this to work, we need to make sure each VM > > spinner up has the QEMU agent installed, right? > > > > Regards, > > Bryan > > On 10 Nov 2023 at 9:54 PM +0800, [email protected], wrote: > > > Hi Bryan, > > > > > > you can use KVM with linstor to do VM snapshots. You just need to enable > > kvm.snapshot.enabled and kvm.vmstoragesnapshot.enabled in global settings. > > No NFS storage needed at all. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Swen > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: Bryan Tiang <[email protected]> > > > Gesendet: Freitag, 10. November 2023 14:12 > > > An: Vivek Kumar via users <[email protected]> > > > Betreff: Cloudstack Linstor cant do live vm snapshots? > > > > > > Hi Community, > > > > > > We are using Cloudstack with Linstor. We want to achieve live snapshots > > as this is an important feature for us (can’t live without it). > > > > > > But based on the Cloudstack documentation, KVM Supports VM Snapshots > > only when using NFS Shared Storage. > > > > > > Linstor does support NFS, but there are some limitations to it such as > > not being able to resize the NFS share file (need to create a new NFS and > > do manual migration). > > > > > > How are other users overcoming this issue with Cloudstack + Linstor? Our > > setup details below: > > > > > > Compute Hypervisor: Ubuntu 20/22 LTS KVM Primary Storage: Linstor Raw > > Block Storage > > > > > > Regards, > > > Bryan > > > > > > > >
