Is it possible to exclude disk from RHEV VM snapshot?

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Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.x

Issue

Snapshot is taken before applying patches to the virtual machine, and we only need snapshot of base OS disk, is it possible to include only base disk?

Resolution

Starting from RHEV 3.4 cluster level it is possible to include only specific discs in the VM snapshot, please upgrade to RHEV >= 3.4 .

Diagnostic Steps

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