Hi,
Is the storage|vmware-snapshots meant for backing up datastore on the vmware hypervisor to freenas? Or is this something more complicated, like taking proper zfs-snapshots of vdmk's on freenas, used by hypervisor through iscsi ?
Manual is quite brief of the subject:
"VMware-Snapshot allows you to coordinate ZFS snapshots when using VMware as a datastore. Once this type of snapshot is created, FreeNAS® will automatically snapshot any running VMware virtual machines before taking a scheduled or manual ZFS snapshot of the dataset or zvol backing that VMware datastore. The temporary VMware snapshots are then deleted on the VMware side but still exist in the ZFS snapshot and can be used as stable resurrection points in that snapshot"
Does using this feature need purchased version of vmware? Is this feature safe and robust?
Thanks.
Is the storage|vmware-snapshots meant for backing up datastore on the vmware hypervisor to freenas? Or is this something more complicated, like taking proper zfs-snapshots of vdmk's on freenas, used by hypervisor through iscsi ?
Manual is quite brief of the subject:
"VMware-Snapshot allows you to coordinate ZFS snapshots when using VMware as a datastore. Once this type of snapshot is created, FreeNAS® will automatically snapshot any running VMware virtual machines before taking a scheduled or manual ZFS snapshot of the dataset or zvol backing that VMware datastore. The temporary VMware snapshots are then deleted on the VMware side but still exist in the ZFS snapshot and can be used as stable resurrection points in that snapshot"
Does using this feature need purchased version of vmware? Is this feature safe and robust?
Thanks.
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