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pierreschmitz
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Is it possible to use ghettoVCB on ESXi Free only to take scheduled snapshots?

Hello,

I am using TrueNAS Core as a central datastore for my VMs which is connected via FibreChannel to an ESXi Free on a second machine as a home lab configuration. Since the Storage API is read-only in ESXi free, the VMware Snapshot functionality in TrueNAS does not work, so taking consistent ZFS snapshots is not available.

So I am wondering if only scheduled VM snapshots could be taken by ghettoVCB, without backing up any data. It would be great when it could pause a while instead of backing up to allow TrueNAS to take a scheduled snaphot of its ZVOL and then delete the VM snapshot afterwards.

Maybe it is possible to configure the backup volume in ghettoVCB to /dev/null, but then all the data is transferred over FC to the host for nothing.

Do you heave any ideas?

Greetings,
Pierre

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