Backup of Fast Cloned VM
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Hi,
Before deploying 10's of VM using the fast clone feature for my VDI setup I was asking myself if Xen Orchestra will actually reuse the base disk (only one copy somewhere) and just snapshot the delta disk for each VM.
Will I end up with multiple copies of the base disk for every fast clone VM?
Martin
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Hi!
It has nothing to do with XO.
XO will make a snapshot on schedule, that will be used as a point of reference.
How the chain is organized in your case depends on XenServer/XCP-ng. Please note that we do a snapshot on the VM itself, so its active disk (the base copy won't contain latest data).
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Hello @olivierlambert,
Sorry, I forgot to specify that my question concerned backup of VM not the actual creation. So I'll rephrase.
When you fast-clone a VM and reuse the base disk for multiple VM, do backup of those VMs will all include the same base disk or a single copy of the template base disk will be store once
Martin
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On the remote side, right? It won't be "dedup" if it's your question
(for now at least).We are thinking on a smart way to dedup it efficiently
It's not trivial because we don't have a lot of control on the host itself, but we might find solutions.
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