[Networker] backing up vmware (esx3) from Legato, guests, hosts, does it work best practices?
2007-04-02 10:13:17
backing up vmware (esx3) from Legato, guests, hosts, does it work best
practices?
1. We are adding VMware servers ESX, into our network. We are taking physical
machines, and turning them into VMs.
2. We want to back up the clients (guests) running on them. (it would be nice
to be able to leave them up 24/7)
a. I could just install the Legato client on each... plan not to back them up
all at the same time and cause stress to the ESX server...
...or...
b. Do something more tricky.
c. is it possible without downing the client/guest to make a backup of a Live
machine?
3. I'd like to backup the Host/physical machines, per the Vmware guy this is
something Vmware Marketing talked about being possible with Networker, but I
don't know the details.
What have you all learned?
[You know that you've been on the forums too long when names begin to be very
familiar :) ]
I'm pulling the below from
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=55440&sid=891ac519955253c4f529b59219652f43
Well, it appears that contrary to the VMWare documentation, you can
not back up a vmware esx3 vmfs file system with any version of
networker. According to all of the literature from EMC on this you
should be able to do it. In reality, you can't and according to VMWare
support it is not supported. The case has been closed on the VMWare
side and if there is anything on the Networker front, I'll let you
know.
Ken
On 3/16/07, Ken Gehring <ken.gehring AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
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