Sven, That's great! I should have said "any storage that supports QCOW2, should support live VM Snapshots".
On Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 4:05 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fariborz, > > I want to add to Simon's answer that also linstor storage plugin supports > live snapshots and not only NFS storage. > > regards, > Swen > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jithin Raju <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Montag, 30. Oktober 2023 09:32 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Live Instance Backup > > Hi Fariborz, > > The setting must be : kvm.vmstoragesnapshot.enabled. In case you are > looking for volume snapshots: kvm.snapshot.enabled . > > -Jithin > > From: Fariborz Navidan <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, 30 October 2023 at 12:49 PM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Live Instance Backup > Hello, > > Thanks a lot for your reply. Could you please let me know what is the > setting nams in CloudStack? > > TIA > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2023, 04:37 Simon Weller, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Fariborz, > > > > KVM does support live (running) snapshots, but it's dependent on the > > underlying storage you're using. Currently, only NFS supports live > > snaps, as KVM stores the memory in a QCOW2 image. > > > > There's a global option to enable this feature in CloudStack. > > > > -Si > > > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 6:02 AM Fariborz Navidan <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi CS community, > > > > > > We're running CS 4.15.0.0 and KVM hypervisor. It doesn't support > > > live instance backups. Does the latest version of CS and KVM/QEMU > > > have this feature in place? > > > > > > TIA > > > Cheers. > > > > > > > > > > >
