On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 14:36 -0800, malahal@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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. Thanks, I will give it a try then! Sander -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
