The interesting thing about the link is that EMC Legato Networker is
not on the supported list ;-)
Oh well, maybe someday....................
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Terry Lemons <lemons_terry AT emc DOT com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> A new version of
> http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vcb_partner_integration_guide.pdf was
> posted just a few days ago, FYI.
>
> tl
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On
> Behalf Of Rutherford, Rodney
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 11:58 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to set up for VMware master server backups
>
> Stan,
>
> You need to grab the Virtual Machine Backup Guide and read through that.
>
> The "proxy" is a Windows host that VMware Consolidated Backup is
> installed on, along
> with the NetWorker client, and the VMware Integration Module to Legato
> Networker .
> That host also must be SAN attached and have access to all of the ESX
> host(s) SAN volumes.
> Couple of gotcha's with that as well:
>
> - LUN numbers for the SAN volumes must be the same on the ESX
> hosts and VCB Proxy
> (I just looked at the release notes on VCB 1.1 and this is not
> necessary in
> certain cases now.)
> - The windows auto drive letter assignment must be disabled on
> the proxy
> - You cannot use powerpath, multipathing, etc. Just use a
> single FC connection
> from the proxy to the SAN.
> - The proxy needs to have a dedicated volume large enough to
> hold all of
> the guests that will be backed up at one time. I usually
> assign a single
> large san volume for that.
>
> The save_vcb.bat command actually lives on the proxy.
>
> A rough overview of the backup process is:
>
> - NetWorker kicks off the backup
> - Contacts the networker client on the proxy
> - the proxy gets the list of vm guests to backup from the
> saveset list
> - the save_vcb.bat script and related configs define the local
> tmp
> space, the virtualcenter host, etc. This info is passed off
> to VCB.
> - VCB contacts virtualcenter, verifies guests
> - VCB snapshots the guests
> - VCB mounts the san volumes hosting the guest data
> - VCB copies the guest data to a tmp space
> - NetWorker then backs up each guest from the tmp space
> - VCB unmounts the san volumes hosting the guest data
>
> Note that this does NOT backup the actual ESX host. For that, you need
> the
> Service Console Backup Enablers for NetWorker installed on the ESX host,
> which provides the necessary dependencies to install the NetWorker
> client
> on it. You then backup the ESX host (NOT guests), as a standard Linux
> client.
>
> Rodney
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
>> On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 10:19 AM
>> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>> Subject: [Networker] How to set up for Vmware master server backups
>>
>> Greetings everyone:
>>
>> A colleague who has a Vmware ESX server and I are trying to figure out
>> how
>> to back it up and the VMs it hosts (and their storage out on our SAN).
>> I
>> have been searching PowerLink for help, this list's web site, and
>> Vmware's
>> web site, but I don't see anything that actually tells me how to do
>> this.
>>
>> The closest I can find is page 77 on the NetWorker Administrator's
>> Guide. I
>> am using NetWorker 7.4.1 on Solaris 10 to backup a Vmware server
> that's
>> hosted on a Windows 2003 box.
>>
>> On page 77, it references a VMware proxy server, but there is no
>> explanation
>> as to what that is. Could someone please explain? I am assuming its my
>> NetWorker server, but maybe not.
>>
>> I am also confused as to what I put into the saveset field? I have
>> tried
>> numerous strings, but nothing works. My colleague who set up this
>> Vmware
>> server also installed the Consolidated Backup framework on it, and it
>> seems
>> to bring with it the NetWorker Remote Service, which is running. Do I
>> also
>> need to install the NetWorker base client?
>>
>> When I try doing a backup, I get something like the following save
>> group
>> report:
>>
>> NetWorker savegroup: (alert) test7 completed, Total 1 client(s), 1
>> Failed.
>> Please see group completion details for more information.
>>
>> Failed: vmanage2.temple
>>
>> Start time: Fri Oct 3 11:05:04 2008
>> End time: Fri Oct 3 11:05:05 2008
>>
>>
>> --- Unsuccessful Save Sets ---
>>
>> * vmanage2.temple:c\:*ALLVMFS* 1 retry attempted
>> * vmanage2.temple:c\:*ALLVMFS* save_vcb.bat: Command not found
>> See the file /nsr/tmp/sg/test7/sso.vmanage2.temple.MraivL for details.
>> This
>> file may be removed after Fri Oct 10 11:05:04 2008.
>>
>> I put in that save_vcb.bat command in the applications field and I
> even
>> put
>> in a path to it in the executable path field, but I still get the
> same
>> results.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong? Is there actually any documentation that has
>> some
>> specific examples of how to set this up? If so, where can I download
> it
>> from?
>>
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