Xen orchestra/xcp-ng local zfs clone sr

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I have local zfs pools native on the xgp-ng hosts and I’d like to clone a snapshot and mount it - I’ve tried this several ways and I do have a ticket open with vates but I wanted to ask here as well as sometimes its a bit of a rabbit hole.

my use case is failback of DR and also wanting to use zfs replication rather than XOA - XOA works great but you can only fail over not back (per XOA) - you’d have to setup a new job and seed it etc.

We are rapidly moving from vmware to XOA but we use ZFS replication and also Zerto for DR currently so I’m trying to find a path forward. In Vmware you can just assign it a new UUID

thanks for any help, our migration is going well but I still have this DR issue to figure out

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There is not really any good or clean way to do that. ZFS just has the disks and none of the VM data.

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Thanks Tom! I’ll stop trying to Xen work like Vmware . I’ll do more reading on how the metadata is stored

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Just use their built in Backup and Disaster recovery options

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Can’t failback with that but I hear you thanks, its solid except for missing that ability