Re: Question regarding Quiesce VM feature in ACS 4.3 wrt XEN hypervisor

thanks Mike. I shall have a look at the implementation details. Will be looking forward to any documentation if any. Regards, Amit *CloudByte Inc.* On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Hi Amit, > > I don't really k

Re: Question regarding Quiesce VM feature in ACS 4.3 wrt XEN hypervisor

Hi Amit, I don't really know these details in depth (NetApp added this feature in v4.3). I have CCed David La Motta from NetApp. Perhaps he can explain more than I did. I do know that from a storage standpoint you don't have to implement anything if you just want to ignore this feature. The ide

Re: Question regarding Quiesce VM feature in ACS 4.3 wrt XEN hypervisor

W.r.t hypervisor specific snapshots : - why is this snapshot required when a VM or its hypervisor supports quiesce operation. - what exactly happens during hypervisor snapshot ? Can this step be excluded. On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, Mike Tutkowski wrote: > This line at the bottom of my previou

Re: Question regarding Quiesce VM feature in ACS 4.3 wrt XEN hypervisor

This line at the bottom of my previous e-mail was redundant...I meant to remove it before sending: A vendor snapshot can be created of the hypervisor snapshot file, then CS can automatically delete On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > I believ

Re: Question regarding Quiesce VM feature in ACS 4.3 wrt XEN hypervisor

I believe this is what happens: * The VM gets quiesced. * Hypervisor snapshots are taken of all VM disks (so a new delta file shows up on each applicable SR). * The applicable storage plug-in can be invoked to take a vendor-specific snapshot of a given hypervisor snapshot delta file. * Once the st