I'm using TrueNAS as a NFS datastore for two VMware esxi 6.7 boxes. Separate dataset and separate shares for each of the esxi and VCSA 6.7 to manage the two.
I understand that setting up VMware snapshot causes truenas to communicate with vmware to quiet and freeze the VMs momentarily for the ZFS snapshot.
So when setting up vmware snapshots, you put in the vcsa or esxi host, login, password and the truenas dataset associated with that particular esxi.
However, there's a last selection where you pick a esxi datastore to synchronize. The options in there are other datastores that aren't in the same zfs pool. It could be a local drive or other datastores on different pools.
I randomly picked another datastore and took a manual snapshot, mounted it and didn't see anything related to the other datastore.
Why is that selection even there and what does it do to the datastore that you pick?
I understand that setting up VMware snapshot causes truenas to communicate with vmware to quiet and freeze the VMs momentarily for the ZFS snapshot.
So when setting up vmware snapshots, you put in the vcsa or esxi host, login, password and the truenas dataset associated with that particular esxi.
However, there's a last selection where you pick a esxi datastore to synchronize. The options in there are other datastores that aren't in the same zfs pool. It could be a local drive or other datastores on different pools.
I randomly picked another datastore and took a manual snapshot, mounted it and didn't see anything related to the other datastore.
Why is that selection even there and what does it do to the datastore that you pick?
