Has anyone contacted the Vmware people to ask their opinion? 

I have not...yet.

David

>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
>Greene, Marco
>Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:46 AM
>To: List, VERITAS NBU
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare partitions
>
>
>This VMWare thing is rearing its head here too.  What is the 
>general consensus of backing it up.
>
>
>We have a few W2K Servers running VMWare so we can consolidate 
>hardware for QA/Testing environment.
>
>What I was thinking of doing was backing up each Guest OS 
>seperately and the main VMWare server as well; however how 
>useful are the backup of the large Guest OS files?  I was 
>thinking of adding them to an exclude list.
>
>More importantly how do we recover in the event that the 
>entire server fails?  Backups are great...but recovery is what 
>we really need.
>
>Any comments?
>
>Marco Greene, BEng
>Infrastructure and Recovery Architect
>NexInnovations Inc
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com 
>[mailto:briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com] 
>Sent: May 30, 2003 9:19 AM
>To: andy.skates AT btopenworld DOT com; david AT datastaff DOT com; 
>veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare partitions
>
>
>I've been backing up the guest OS's successfully with NBU 4.5 
>MP2. However, trying to backup the physical server, I fail on 
>Linux files greater than 2 GB.  The 2 GB limit has been 
>overcome for the ext2/ext3 file systems with FP4, but there is 
>no mention of support for VMWares VMFS file system.  I've been 
>told this should work and I plan on testing it in late June. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:       david [SMTP:david AT datastaff DOT com]
>Sent:       Saturday, March 29, 2003 7:59 AM
>To:         andy.skates; veritas-bu
>Cc:         david
>Subject:    RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare partitions
>
>Great question...I'm actually having one of my clients test 
>this out as we speak.  The installer seemed to crash the first 
>guest OS (W2K) they attempted...but next week more tests will be done.
>
>Have you tried it yet?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
>>andy.skates AT btopenworld DOT com
>>Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 7:04 AM
>>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up VMWare partitions
>>
>>
>>Does anyone have any documents/guides on how to backup VMWare
>>(ESXWare) partitions using NBU 4.5?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Andy Skates
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