Re: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3

The Virtual Machines are stored on a VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) which Netbackup doesn't understand. Its a proprietary format developed by VMWare for use in ESX Server (its got advanced capabilities like journaling.) To backup Virtual Machines via the .vmdk you need to use their consolidated backup piece and be running 6.5 on a server which can mount the storage. (SAN only I think, I don't think Consolidated Backup supports iSCSI.) Alternately (if you are not using shared storage) you can use the built in tools on the ESX server to "export" the virtual machines to an ext3 partition that the client can read.

-Jonathan

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Anas Kayal
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:52 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up ESX3

I have a growing VMware ESX farm and have deployed NBU 6 agent on the COS of ESX. When I do a full backup I don’t seem to get the VMDK files of the Virtual Machines. What am I doing wrong?

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