For years, virtualization admins have mentally separated storage into a few neat buckets: Storage Type Snapshot Method qcow2 on filesystem qcow2 backing chains/internal snapshots ZFS Native CoW snapshots VMware VMFS Delta VMDK chains Then Proxmox decided to make things weird. Recently I started digging into Proxmox’s experimental snapshot-as-volume-chain functionality for LVM storage and quickly realizedContinue reading “Inside Proxmox’s LVM Snapshot Chains”
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Your Snapshots Aren’t the Problem. Your Restore Process Is.
I built a platform for restoring Proxmox VMs from Pure Storage snapshots. The storage part was easy. Fixing the workflow was the real engineering. TLDR: GitHub – PureStorage-OpenConnect/proxmox-pure-snap-restore: A utility to allow restoring Proxmox LVM based VMs from FlashArrary snapshots · GitHub There’s a familiar enterprise fairy tale: “We have snapshots.” Everyone nods. Risk hasContinue reading “Your Snapshots Aren’t the Problem. Your Restore Process Is.”
Automated Pure vVOLs Migration From vSphere to Proxmom
Ok. So last one on this for a while. Go read this one first if you haven’t: https://vskeeball.com/2026/01/23/pure-vvols-migrations-from-vsphere-to-proxmox/. I said at the end of the last post I said I had a tool for this. Well here you go: https://github.com/PureStorage-OpenConnect/proxmox-vvol-migrator This tool gets installed on a Linux machine and hosts a web interface to doContinue reading “Automated Pure vVOLs Migration From vSphere to Proxmom”
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