Andrija, Also, I might add that the snapshotting should not take a long time, like what's currently happening with KVM. It takes absolutely ages for the snapshot to complete while the image is being copied from primary to secondary storage. If you have a bunch of volumes you want to snapshot, they just take up all the queue and eventually timeout. Try taking a snapshot of about 50+ volumes at the same time, which is not very uncommon for a medium infrastructure, let alone a large cloud. Things will get broken pretty quickly.
Even if you are using ceph storage with the built in capabilities for doing rbd snapshotting, this mechanism is still somewhat broken and buggy. For instance, it would be nice to have a working ability to keep the snapshots on the primary storage to remove this time consuming primary-secondary storage coping, but this feature has been broken for about a year already with no prospects of being fixed as far as I can tell. So, as it stands at the moment, looking from the customer perspective, the snapshotting is broken with KVM and needs to be addressed asap. Not really sure why this is not a priority for the dev team? It seems that the team is pushing those fancy features into the new releases without concentrating on the basics of what the clients want. Very frustrating for the clients ((( Andrei ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrija Panic" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, 31 October, 2014 3:35:20 PM > Subject: Re: XenServer > Nux, I agree that we need to push that - but since I'm not a > develoepr, no > reall use of me :) If I need to push somewhere, just let me know. > Anyway, user want a single click SNAPSHOT - and an option for revert > - > talking about public cloud.... > Cheers > On 31 October 2014 16:18, Nux! <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andrija, > > > > AFAIK you can't snapshot all the volumes in the exact same moment, > > but I > > am not sure if it really needed in your case. > > VM snapshot it's what you would need, only supported for Xenserver > > and > > VMware; we need to push for VM snapshot for KVM as well, I know > > it's > > possible as I have done it manually with "virsh". > > > > There are different ways around a problem though, if you are > > running mysql > > with innodb for example you could just do a mysqldump (with > > --single-transaction to avoid locking the tables). > > > > HTH > > Lucian > > > > -- > > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > > > Nux! > > www.nux.ro > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Andrija Panic" <[email protected]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > Sent: Friday, 31 October, 2014 15:10:26 > > > Subject: Re: XenServer > > > > > Nux, > > > > > > I understand this - but a question for you - you have i.e. 3 > > > volumes > > > attached to a VM - how do you snapshot those and make sure they > > > are > > > snapshoted in the EXACT same moment, to preserve data integrity > > > of the > > data > > > inside VM - you have i.e. database files on 1 volume, database > > > logs on > > > another. > > > > > > This is a reall question, not kidding ? What I know, you can > > > turnoff VM, > > > and then snapshot one by one - but this is not the goal of the > > > snapshotting... > > > ? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > On 31 October 2014 16:06, Nux! <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Andrija, > > >> > > >> You can still do volume snapshotting with KVM, works fine. > > >> > > >> > > http://www.nux.ro/archive/2014/01/Taking_KVM_volume_snapshots_with_Cloudstack_4_2_on_CentOS_6_5.html > > >> > > >> All we need is a way to quickly restore the volume, some guys at > > leaseweb > > >> were working on something like this, hope to see this feature in > > >> future > > >> versions. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > >> > > >> Nux! > > >> www.nux.ro > > >> > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> > From: "Andrija Panic" <[email protected]> > > >> > To: [email protected] > > >> > Sent: Friday, 31 October, 2014 09:37:49 > > >> > Subject: Re: XenServer > > >> > > >> > My vote also for KVM snapshooting - having all the nice > > >> > fetaures, but > > >> > without basic virtualization stuff like snapshotting - it > > >> > simply > > drives > > >> me > > >> > and our client nuts... > > >> > > > >> > On 31 October 2014 10:03, Andrei Mikhailovsky > > >> > <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > > >> >> Is there a feature request for this support or should we open > > >> >> one? I > > >> would > > >> >> like to see this implemented for KVM. > > >> >> > > >> >> Andrei > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> >> > > >> >> > From: "Nux!" <[email protected]> > > >> >> > To: [email protected] > > >> >> > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 11:25:10 PM > > >> >> > Subject: Re: XenServer > > >> >> > > >> >> > Andrei, I am hopeful the next incarnation of XenServer will > > >> >> > be much > > >> >> > better/modern, with support for CEPH, GlusterFS etc. > > >> >> > > >> >> > Re KVM snapshotting, KVM can do live snapshots of the > > volumes+memory > > >> >> > (you can do it with "virsh"), but ACS doesn't support it; > > >> >> > forgot > > >> >> > why. > > >> >> > > >> >> > Lucian > > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > > >> >> > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > >> >> > > >> >> > Nux! > > >> >> > www.nux.ro > > >> >> > > >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> >> > > From: "Andrei Mikhailovsky" <[email protected]> > > >> >> > > To: [email protected] > > >> >> > > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 21:24:06 > > >> >> > > Subject: Re: XenServer > > >> >> > > >> >> > > I would happily switch to XenServer once they will have > > >> >> > > ceph > > >> >> > > support. I do > > >> >> > > prefer XenServer and the feature list of ACS + XenServer > > >> >> > > is a bit > > >> >> > > better. > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > It sucks not having proper snapshotting in KVM where one > > >> >> > > can > > create > > >> >> > > the whole vm > > >> >> > > snapshot (volumes + memory) very quickly without the need > > >> >> > > to > > bother > > >> >> > > snapshotting every volume and wait for ages. > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > > Andrei > > >> >> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> From: "motty cruz" <[email protected]> > > >> >> > >> To: [email protected] > > >> >> > >> Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 8:43:32 PM > > >> >> > >> Subject: Re: XenServer > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> I am no expert by any means but my personal opinion, I > > >> >> > >> really > > like > > >> >> > >> XenServer a lot better. I have a cluster of about 5 > > >> >> > >> machines > > >> >> > >> running > > >> >> > >> KVM, > > >> >> > >> ACS 4.3. I unable to do snapshot, migrating VMs from one > > >> >> > >> host to > > >> >> > >> another > > >> >> > >> takes a long time. I had a very bad experience with > > >> >> > >> "Balloon > > >> >> > >> driver", > > >> >> > >> I am > > >> >> > >> traumatize using KVM. > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> XenServer don't need to install cloudstack agent is > > >> >> > >> already > > >> >> > >> integrated. I > > >> >> > >> am very happy with XenServer. I still need to work out a > > >> >> > >> few > > >> >> > >> lingering > > >> >> > >> issues but thus far am a happy person. > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> Thanks, > > >> >> > >> -Motty > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Andrei Mikhailovsky > > >> >> > >> <[email protected]> > > >> >> > >> wrote: > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> > I wold love to see the ability to do proper > > >> >> > >> > snapshotting on > > KVM. > > >> >> > >> > XenServer > > >> >> > >> > does it so much better! > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > >> > > From: "Vladimir Melnik" <[email protected]> > > >> >> > >> > > To: [email protected] > > >> >> > >> > > Sent: Thursday, 30 October, 2014 8:09:17 PM > > >> >> > >> > > Subject: RE: XenServer > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > >> > > Oh, thank you so much, folks, for your replies on > > >> >> > >> > > this > > topic! > > >> >> > >> > > Now > > >> >> > >> > > I > > >> >> > >> > > understand that I shouldn't migrate to XenServer, as > > >> >> > >> > > I > > already > > >> >> > >> > > have > > >> >> > >> > > a bunch of hosts running KVM and it really won't be > > >> >> > >> > > a good > > >> >> > >> > > idea > > >> >> > >> > > to > > >> >> > >> > > bread such a zoo. > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > >> > > The only thing that makes me feel envy is an ability > > >> >> > >> > > to > > change > > >> >> > >> > > configuration of a virtual machine without > > >> >> > >> > > restarting it. > > As I > > >> >> > >> > > know, > > >> >> > >> > > KVM doesn't support it yet, am I right? Other > > >> >> > >> > > XenServer > > >> >> > >> > > features > > >> >> > >> > > don't seem to be so exciting to me :) > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > >> > > One more time - thanks to all who have helped me to > > >> >> > >> > > decide > > not > > >> >> > >> > > to > > >> >> > >> > > do > > >> >> > >> > > something that I would regret. > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > >> > > Best regards, > > >> >> > >> > > V. > > >> >> > >> > > > >> >> > > > > >> >> > >> -- > > >> >> > >> Thanks for your support, > > >> >> > > > Motty > > >> >> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > > > >> > Andrija Panić > > >> > -------------------------------------- > > >> > http://admintweets.com > > >> > -------------------------------------- > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Andrija Panić > > > -------------------------------------- > > > http://admintweets.com > > > -------------------------------------- > > > -- > Andrija Panić > -------------------------------------- > http://admintweets.com > --------------------------------------
