S. J. van Harmelen [svh@xxxxxx] wrote: > > On the XenSource server I use a shared iSCSI storage so multiple servers > can access the same data so I can do live migrations. When I add the > storage XenSource creates a PV and then when I create a VM, it creates > LV's for each virtual harddisk. > > So far so good I guess, as the XenSource machine uses the multipathed > drive, right? Should. > Now I would like to take snapshots of the whole PV so I can make > backups. My thoughts where to make a PV on /dev/mapper/xen that spans > the whole disk, and then create a single LV on it. > > If I then take the path to that single LV, say /dev/volumegroup/disk1 as > target for iSCSI, then the XenSsource server should only see that LV as > the shared iSCSI repository. > > But then XenSource wil create a PV and a couple of LV's in the existing > LV (created on the storage server and shared true iSCSI). Could that > create any problems or can I just do that? I don't see any problem. You should be able to do that, but then I am not an expert. Give it a try. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
