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From: Kelven Yang <kelven.yang@citrix.com>
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Subject: Re: Question about hypervisor snapshots
Thread-Topic: Question about hypervisor snapshots
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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 20:38:02 +0000
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On 9/8/13 4:21 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkowski@solidfire.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a couple questions regarding how hypervisor snapshots work in
>XenServer and ESX through CloudStack.
>
>For XenServer, let's say I have a root disk on SR1 and a data disk on SR2.
>
>1) If we take a hypervisor snapshot, do we snapshot both disks by default?

For VMware, yes.

>
>2) Assuming we do, is the snapshot always stored with the disk it is a
>snapshot of on the same SR?

Yes, snapshot is stored along with its base disk in the same datastore

>
>3) Assuming they are, will the entire snapshot process fail if there is
>insufficient space on any SR?

If anyone fails, it will fail the snapshot as whole.

>
>Thanks!
>
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