October 16, 20178 yr I currently have an esxi configuration where the virtual machines that run on it are all stored on an NFS share. The NFS server runs a script where all the VMs are shutdown and the file system is snapshotted in a clean state. Then I start things back up and run a backup of the VMs from the snapshot. I like this configuration a lot because the VMs can keep chugging along while a backup runs. There's a lot of other things I don't like about ESXI and I'm using unraid for general file storage already so it would be nice if I could move to an unraid only solution in the future. There doesn't seem to be a snapshot of the file system option in unraid so I feel it would be a good bit harder to do. Either the same snapshot system on the cache drives or the ability to mount an external/remote NFS share and store the VM files on that share would get the job done for me. Is anything like this already possible?
October 16, 20178 yr You can snapshot any data disk or cache (or even an unassigned device) filesystem as long as it's using btrfs, more info here:
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