RHV native VMs image backup solution (export as ova)
Red Hat Virtualization come with a feature "export OVA", it can export the running VM(powered up) and save it as OVA. Although this ova format cannot import back to vmware, but it is good enough to backup the critical virtual machine and restore it if necessary. First the VM will auto take snapshot and copy the disk and remove the snapshot after export finish. It same as what backup software does and backup software is doing better such as incremental backup, schedule, select VM to backup etc. 1. Export OVA button For Directory, it is expect valid path on the hosts. It can make use of NFS [root@rhvh0 backup]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... nfs:/Public/rhv 5.4T 3.6T 1.8T 67% /rhev/data-center/mnt/nfs:_Public_rhv ... [root...