[OmniOS-discuss] Auto snapshots?

[Nicholas George]

Dan's exactly right. After the ZFS snapshot, you can actually remove the
VMware snapshot as well since it's only purpose is to exist in the ZFS
snapshot so that you can roll back to it after recovering the VM from the
ZFS snapshot.


On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz at druber.com>wrote:

> > Wouldn't you want to snapshot the ZFS system and then quiesce and
> snapshot
> > the VM?
> >
> > Step one: zfs snapshot; step two: make it not a lie.
>
> Because the VM snapshot would not be against the ZFS snapshot, but rather,
> the live filesystem.  So you take a hot snap (VMware), then a zfs snap.
> If you have to roll back, you can restore the entire VM directory, which
> would present you with the VM snapshot to then roll back to.
>
>
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