[Openstack] Image snapshot creation

Ross Lillie ross.lillie at motorolasolutions.com
Wed May 13 23:57:21 UTC 2015


Thanks all. Sorry for the late response. To much to do.

Regards,
Ross

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015, Delatte, Craig <craig.delatte at twcable.com>
wrote:

>   It should be written to /var/lib/nova/instances/snapshots
>
>  Craig DeLatte
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> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Image snapshot creation
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>  Hello,
>
> For the first point, yes, you need the free space disk necessary to
> snapshot on the compute node. The process of snapshotting is in fact a
> qemu-img creation, you can easily see the process details on the compute
> node when you trigger a snapshot.
>
> However for the second point I don't remember right now where it's placed
> before being transfered, you'll find out easily with the qemu-img
> parameters.
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Le 23/04/2015 22:00, Ross Lillie a �crit :
>
> Hi!
>
>  I'm just trying to clarify my understanding of the image snapshot
> creation process.
>
>  When snapshotting a running instance, the compute node must have
> sufficient disk space for the image to be created prior to uploading to
> Glance. Is this correct?
>
>  Also, by default, during the snapshot creation on the compute node,
> where is the snapshot image being written? /tmp? /var/nova/instances?
>
>  Thanks for your help!
>
>  Regards,
> Ross
>
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