The reason I ask about a client being loaded on ESX is because future 
servers will have VM firmware embedded in the server which I would think 
negate loading a client. 

Troy Kutil
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Milwaukee Electric Tool



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Hello,
If you are trying to use vmware consolidated backup you will need either " 

Linux" Client licence ( not sure how that works if your Netwoker server is 

Linux based) & yes that will need to be loaded on to ESX Console, also you 

need to keep VM Server Down to get a good backups, alternatively other 
methods mount the VM Snapshot to proxy server, not sure what exact method 
were followed.
And you also need Licence to do VCB on VM side.
ESX Ranger, Netapp, Avamar have their own routine to handle VM backups.
HTH



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Is there an enabler or client you need on the networker side to do this? 
Just interested for our own use and wondering if you load a Networker 
client into ESX or how that is accomplished.

Troy Kutil
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Hello,
I'm trying to backup my VMWare ESX environment and I have followed the
instructions and it looks like it tries to start but I keep getting a 
weird
error...

02/22/08 10:43:37 nsrd: savegroup info:
vmgmt01.llnl.gov:VM:source01.llnl.gov: No full backups of this save set 
were
found in the media database; performing a full backup
* vmgmt01.llnl.gov:VM:source01.llnl.gov 1 retry attempted
  vmgmt01.llnl.gov:VM:source01.llnl.gov: No full backups of this save set
were found in the media database; performing a full backup
* vmgmt01.llnl.gov:VM:source01.llnl.gov Input Error: There is no file
extension in "c:\Program".
02/22/08 10:43:37 savegrp: vmgmt01.llnl.gov:VM:source01.llnl.gov failed.


If anyone has gotten this to work can you please lend me some help on 
this.

Thanks,
Charles

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