On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:52 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) <
lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> What I've always done was to make individual zvol's in ZFS, and export
> them over iscsi. Then vmware simply uses that "disk" as the disk for the
> VM. Let ZFS do snapshotting, and don't worry about vmware. Every guest OS
> (at least every one I've had to deal with) is designed to be able to
> survive a power failure (or kernel halt or whatever) so if you ever need to
> rollback or restore a ZFS snapshot and reboot the guest, you're effectively
> booting that guest as if the power had been interrupted at the time of the
> snapshot.
OSes, maybe ("designed to" and "it works" are often not on speaking terms
with each other). Applications, far too often not so much.
--
brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net
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