Hello,
Vmware has a good guide on integrating VM backups with Legato, i would
suggest upgrading Vmservers to 3.5 SP3 or higher version , you can
download the vmware module that goes on the proxy server from vmware, the
install instructions are on there, if you don't find it, email me offlist
and i will try to sort things out for you.
You will need a good proxy server ( decent hardware) that has direct ( FC
level or NFS, ISCSI) access to the vmdatastores, the actual setup for
vmware for backup is not that difficult as long as you read the guide
and have SAN, server background.
Proxy server should be properly sized and should have adequate local
storage for backup ( This storage requirement is based on your
environment), i.e VM's are backed up to local mount point i.e D:\mnt.
HTH
Lam Nguyen <tien.lam.nguyen AT GMAIL DOT COM>
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Re: VCB and Networker 7.4.x
Hello Martin or anyone in this thread who cna help me.
I will be starting to implement VCB in my networker environmment.
This is our environment all Windows platforms:
About 5 ESX host version 3.0.2
Networker server and storage node version 7.4.3
I want to implement VCB to backup the console and WM.
Can anyone tell me where to go to get some kind of install documentation
that would tell you to install and configure this from A_to Z ?
>From waht I read here, this is not a trivial thing to configure.
Thanks
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Chester Martin <cmartin AT spp DOT org> wrote:
> We're running 7.4.4 with vcb 1.5, we've done image(windows/linux) and OS
> level (windows). We're using the proxy server as a storage node. It's
> been running pretty solid. We've upgraded from 7.4.1 to 7.4.2 to 7.4.3
> to 7.4.4.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of John Chaney (CF)
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 8:50 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Networker] VCB and Networker 7.4.x
>
> The Proxy is windows 2003 and I'm using the latest VCB module 1.5.
>
>
>
> I have logging in the config.js set to 6 but cannot find a log file
> anywhere
> other than what is displayed on the screen during the snapshot and copy
> of
> the images.
>
>
>
> I have run save.exe with -D6 to capture as much info as I can using
> Networker but nothing is being sent to any logs.
>
>
>
> It just seems that the symptom happens when I use the Proxy as a Storage
> Node. I'm going to back down the Networker on the proxy to 7.4.2 and
> see
> what I get. Has anyone testing 7.4.4 with VCB yet?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> John
>
>
>
> From: Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com [mailto:Fazil.Saiyed AT anixter DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 8:25 AM
> To: EMC NetWorker discussion; John Chaney
> Cc: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: VCB and Networker 7.4.x
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>
>
>
> Hello,
> VCB backups rely on configures (module from vmware, installed on proxy
> server) and vcenter integration as well as ability of proxy ( SN )
> server to
> see all VM Data store that you backup, has this been looked at ? which
> version of integration module are you using as well as vmware version ?
> Proxy server has to be Windows 2003 & preferably, drive automounting on
> windows should be turned off.
> There a few log files in the SN servers install directory that may
> explain
> why the images are being deleted before backup, check your config.js
> options.
> HTH
>
>
>
>
>
> John Chaney <john AT CHANEYFAMILY DOT BIZ>
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> Subject
>
> VCB and Networker 7.4.x
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hey everyone, I would like to know what your experiences have been with
>
> VCB and Networker 7.4.x.
>
> I did my first VCB implentation about 18 months ago at a customer site
> with
> Networker 7.4. Off the top of my head I can't rememeber the VCB version
>
> but after much trial and error I was able to get it to work by using the
>
> Proxy Host (storage node) and defining the savesets as
> VM:guestname:backup
> type in the saveset field, plus defining save_vcb.bat in the backup
> command
> field. Of course, we had the normal issues that made EMC change their
> method of backing up VM's in 7.4.1 but at least it backed up.
>
> Later I installed VCB with Networker 7.4.1 at some other sites and had
> to
> figure out the new method of creating a client for each Guest and using
> the
> VCB option on the client definition. This was better although the
> customer
> was upset because now it required a client license. In any case it
> backed
> up.
>
> Recently I have been contracted to implement VCB with Networker again.
> The
> Networker server is 7.4.2 on AIX and we have 7.4.4 on the Proxy Host.
> For
> some reason when we define the Guest as a Networker client and set all
> of
> the parameters the backup part fails. It will create the snapshot, copy
>
> the vmdk's to the proxy host, but as soon as the copy finishes, the copy
>
> directory gets deleted and then the snapshot gets cleaned up.
>
> If I define the guest the old way (as a saveset on the proxy host) then
> it
> backs up.
>
> My first guess was the Networker 7.4.2 vs. 7.4.4 compatibility issue.
> We
> had a DR Networker server running 7.4.4 so I tried testing it there and
> got
> the same results.
>
> My second guess was that the Networker server was running AIX. Of the
> 17
> years I've been running Networker, I only know two company's running it
> as
> a server on AIX. So I created a Networker 7.4.4 server on a Windows
> system. Got the same results.
>
> What is strange is I can install Networker server on the Proxy host and
> everything works as expected. All methods of VCB backups work.
>
> I have other toughts on what the issue may be (such as they run Netware
> Directory Services for authentication) that may be the culprit, but I
> wanted to run it by you guys to see if you've experienced anything like
> this.
>
> Just so you know, we are just going to backup the image level. They
> also
> backup at the file level using Networker client. We will just backup
> the
> images one a week or month. Should a system crash or we need to do a
> DR,
> we will restore the image and then just do a file level restore to bring
>
> the system up to date.
>
> Thanks in advance for any hepful responses.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Chaney
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