From: Anas Kayal
[mailto:anas AT up.org DOT qa]
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 4:50
AM
To: Curtis Preston; Martin,
Jonathan; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing
up ESX3
Curtis you were
right. I had to shut down the VM’s first before doing the backup. I put a
direct link to the /volumes directory in the file list but I think it should
also work with a full / backup if all the VM’s are down. Now does anyone have a
script that I can run directly on ESX host that automatically shuts down the
VM’s prior to backup and brings them back up after?
From: Curtis Preston
[mailto:cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008
6:45 AM
To: Martin, Jonathan; Anas Kayal;
Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing
up ESX3
You do not have to use VCB to back up
VMware. The way Anas is trying to do it is supported. Each method
has advantages and disadvantages. This method will have all full backups
and you have to figure out how to snapshot the vmdk files.
I believe the only problem is that the
VMFS filesystem isn’t being auto-discovered.
Anas, have you put the /volumes mount
point in the file list?
Also, make sure that you snapshot the vmdk
files first. I found this preso that speaks to it:
http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/tac9912.pdf
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:05
PM
To: Anas Kayal; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: 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
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On Behalf Of Anas Kayal
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 3:52
PM
To:
Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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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