VMware ESX - Snapshot

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ESX environment with Splunk in a VM:

• Splunk 4.1.4 RHEL4 64bit
• configured as indexer
• $SPLUNK_DB on SAN (in VMware context)
• everything on ext3 filesystem

Is it possible to make a complete snapshot (in ESX Manager) with an active running Splunk instance ?

Or is it required to shutdown Splunk ?

[gkanapathy · Accepted solution]

You can take a snapshot and it will be consistent.