Backup of virtual machines in ESX

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• Keep a backup of virtual machine removed at POS

  Hello

  I want to make a backup of virtual machine (vdp 6.1) and then delete vm in the cluster. I need a backup for future possible restoration.

  Is it OK to do this? POS will keep the backup?

  Hello

  You can go to POS, select the backup of the virtual machine and put it in the menu. This may block the normal expiry date and the backup will be deleted from POS.

  Tim

• addition of virtual machine / Server esx for production environment

  Hello

  How can we add virtual machine or esx server for production environment?

  In general... As his "simple terms?

  Install ESXi host

  Install, run and connect to the host via the gateway client installed from the host on an external workstation

  Then

  OR THE OTHER

  Install and run the converter on each physical computer that you want to become a virtual machine

  Once finished, turn off power to virtual and physical.

  OR

  Create a virtual machine and install the o/s CD drive.

  What you want is way off the coast without 1 million questions about your installation.

• Transfer a Virtual Machine in Esx 2.5 to an ESX 4.1

  Hi all

  For a client, I need to transfer 3 virtual machines on an ESX 2.5 in stand-alone mode (local storage / VMFS2) for a new ESX 4.1 (local storage / VMFS3)

  I'm looking for a solution but without success. I see two ways to to do, but I can't test it before the migration, so could you give me your advice.

  (1) I copy all virtual machines in ESX 2.5 to the new storage to ESX 4.1 with scp.

  I create the virtual machine with the vmdk

  I put the last VmTools

  Upgrade virtual hardware

  (2) I have try the VmConverter username but I don'k know if he recognizes the VM Esx 2.5

  Is there another solution?

  Thanks for your help!

  Kind regards

  Franck

  the best solution in my opnion is with converter http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vcenter_converter_standalone/4_0?hl=pt-BR&sourceid=gd&rlz=1Q1GGLD_pt-BRBR411BR412

  After the conversion to put vmware tools and after upgrade virtual HW.

  Verification procedure «how improve HW» virtual

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1010675

  Please, do not forget the points of call of the "useful" or "correct" answers

  Mauro Bonder - moderator

• Best way to transfer virtual machines in ESX ESXi?

  Hi all

  Anyone know an easy secure way to transfer a virtual machine on ESX ESXi 3.5?

  Stop the virtual machine, copy the files from the computer virtual, then "Add to inventory" on ESX

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  VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• What is the best way to backup of virtual machines on a standalone ESX with the data store local

  Hello

  I want to save the virtual machines on a host ESX autonomous. and all of these virtual machines is the local data store.  What is the best way to save these virtual machines in this situation?

  And probably we don't provision VTL on the local data center, so it is possible to use VCB to backup? And VCB is a good choice compared to the traditional method that installs the backup client in each virtual machine?   Because I think that in this situation with the data store local, it cannot not reduced the load on ESX hosts and network overhead can be avoided.

  Thank you!

  LAN

  > 1. VCB usable remote tape library? I mean it's not local library and uses the tape library to another network data center.

  VCB is completely unrelated to the tape library, it is a framework, not a backup solution. If your standard backup software can work with the remote tape library you can try it to ungrateful with VCB.

  > 2. what the difference bwteen hot - added NBD and modes if there is that an ESX host with store data local and want to use a virtual machine like VCB proxy? I think that they are the same: the VCB proxy read data through the I/O of the ESX host stack in this situation.

  NBD works on network and the backup traffic goes through the service console connection. Hot add uses special machine for assistance to connect vmdk to and uses of e/s disk stack instead of e/s network.

  > 3. Veeam Backup is free software?

  No, it isn't.

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  MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert 2009

  http://blog.vadmin.ru

• Manual backup Parallels virtual machine - how to exclude folders?

  Can't find an answer.

  I want to exclude certain folders when you do a manual Virtual Machine backup Parallels.

  There are thousands of responses but all backups on Mr. time.

  And since I had a crash when restoring a virtual of TM machine I won't use.

  I have no problem with manual backups.

  But since my photo file is about 100 GB and I don't change anything

  often, in this case, I want to exclude from the backup of file that records everything.

  Greateful for any suspicion.

  Can you clarify, you try to back up only via Parallels

  or try you backup via Time Machine and want to exclude a folder?

  If this last, go preferences of Time Machine and choose your folders to exclude

  

  If you only back up Parallels see here

  http://KB.parallels.com/en/4859

  or here

  http://KB.parallels.com/en/8827

  - - - -

  Your mileage may vary.   All advice is based on my experience.   I bought a shareware/commercial software in any given notice and have no financial interest in all of the mentioned products.

• Best practices for backup of virtual machine.

  Hello guys,.

  I have a question about the virtual machine snapshot backup option.

  In our environment, we use symantec netbackup and it is managed by an administrator of aid. It has implemented the process in a way where the snapshot of the virtual machine is scheduled and then the snapshot is saved in netbackup daily. Once the snapshot backup process is completed, the snapshot is deleted.

  My concerns:

  1 - remove the snapshot - wouldn't it increase the size of the virtual machine every day?

  2 - is enough to restore the virtual machine snapshot disaster?

  3. what happens if a virtual machine has a lot of snapshots?

  Please help.

  A snapshot (delta) file contains only data blocks that have been changed and a reference to their original location in the virtual disk Basic. Maybe http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015180 helps to clarify this.

  André

• Migration of virtual machines in ESX 3.0.1 & 3.5 to vSphere 5

  We have severely old stand alone ESX 3.0.1 and 3.5 servers and finally acquired new equipment and a cluster in VMware vSphere Essentials and try to migrate virtual machines, so we can remove the old assets. Using Converter Standalone 5 I only abe to pass successfully the Windows 2008 SMV ESX 3.5. All Windows 2003/XP virtual machines fail with this generic message "Unable to obtain material information to the computer selected."

  I tried various solutions of workaround mentioned around forums such as change the Linux guest OS during the migration and take snapshots of the source without result. Joint are recent newspapers Converter - will try and earlier version of the converter now as I have seen mention of this being a potential solution.

  Ah, I see - redefine was useful in some cases, when the Iso Coldclone was used.
  This CD is no longer available

  Just copy the complete directories - the vmdk formats are compatible - and where the new server don't like old VMS they can usually be adjusted with small text file modifications

• How to make for the Hyper-V role to run on a virtual machine in esx 5

  Hello

  I am trying to run the Hyper-V role on a virtual machine in vmware esxi 5. I'm under eindows Server 20008 R2 datacenter edition and install esx I have on a server dell with 32 GB of Ram and 2 intel Xeon processors. the material is active VT. I get the below error message all the time.

  Hyper-V cannot be installed.

  the processor on this computer is not compatible with Hyper-v. to install the role of HRT, the processor must have a version support for hardware-assisted virtualization, and this feature must be enabled in the BIOS.

  Info

  -the material is active VT and I am trying to nest a virtual machine with the hyper-V role.

  any help is appreciated.

  Please see Running the VMs nested.

• Backup of virtual machines on a remote host

  We have a number of standalone servers ESXi 4.1 in places remote, managed by 1 vCenter server and want to use the ghettoVCBg2 script to save them. We do not want to deploy a vMA on each server ESXi, rather we want to use 1 vMA by geographical area to manage VM backups for all ESXi hosts in this area. There may be 2 or 3 hosts 2 or 3 virtual machines running in each region.

  In my lab, I have 2 hosts configured on nets under different. I have 1 vMA running on host 1 I want to manage backups for host 1 and 2. The two hosts have only local targets for storage, no NAS or SAN or iSCSI.

  I have 2 copies of the ghetto script, each adapted to the ESXi host needs the VMs system backed up. Everything seems to work fine, I can run the script on the host 1 to backup VMs on host 2 (by using the - server switch and any copy of the script) with local storage on the host 2 as the destination storage.

  My question is: what path the data takes when save? Given that the vMA's in one place and it's back up virtual machines in a different storage location that is local to the target ESXi host, the traffic is forwarded through the host that is running the vMA? or the host ESXi target handles the traffic locally so that it touches the WAN?

  When we look at the performance on the network adapters on the host and two virtual machines (the vMA and the VM being supported), I don't see any significant increase in traffic, but backups take about twice as long to complete.

  Is there anything else I can check without having to put a sniffer on the network to capture traffic? Some places have slow links between sites, some are even the radio links to reduce WAN traffic is a priority in some cases.

  Any suggestion would be appreciated.

  Backups are started remotely through vMA using the vSphere API, but the actual backups and as mentioned traffic occurs between your hosts and data warehouses is destination.

• HO to import a virtual machine in esx host

  Hi all,

  I have a cluster of small esx (2host clustered in a datacenter) manged by a machine virtual vcenter. Now, I installed an esx on a small host outside the cluster, do some test activities that must be totally separate from my cluster of production.

  Before you perform the test esx host, I created some virtual machines in the production cluster. Now I want to import into my test esx host without have to reinstall them. Can I do this? the only way to achieve that I thought is to add my existing test in my data center host, leaving outside the cluster. then move my vms and remove it then, to manage alone.

  Is this possible without any risk to my cluster of production? is there any other solutions?

  Thank you very much

  Paolo

  Yes, but you cannot connect a free version, you need a license.

  To not change your existing cluster, simply add the host in the data center (so it's outside the cluster).

  When you are finished, just disconnect and remove the unused host.

  André

• Backup of virtual machine using iSCSI Server

  As the title says.

  I (MSA 2312i) iSCSI storage and Im going to do install a backup on a virtual computer product.  To achieve LAN free backup, I think I need to create the virtual machine with two network cards.  One on the production of LAN and the other on the iSCSI network?

  I have a NETWORK card physical free that I can create a Virtual switch with a VMKernel port and then add it to the virtual machine, it would be the best solution?

  Thank you

  Yes the iscsi network, where by it would also be the LAN backup.

• Problem with VMTools & backup of virtual machines

  Hello

  I can't back up some virtual machines with installed VMTools. Once I have remove VMTools machine virtual back ok.

  I get the error message is as follows for virtual machines with VMTools installed:

  e000954c - an error occurred while executing the command "vcbMounter" of VMware to save a virtual machine. See the backlog for more details.

  I use VCB 1.5 update 2 & Backup Exec 12.5.

  I tried uninstalling VMTools & reinstall but no joy yet!

  Any ideas?

  Thank you as always.

  P

  Have you tried to disable the SYNCHRONIZATION driver in just by using VSS and VMware tools or vice versa?

  How do you do that?

  The installation of VMware tools on a virtual machine and choose the option 'Interactive '.  Choose the option "Edit", and then expand the section "VMware device drivers.  On the Windows Server 2008, simply look for the "Volume Shadow Copy Service Support" option.  On the Windows 2003 server, locate the VSS and the SYNCHRONIZATION options or file system synchronization driver.

• Create the virtual machine in ESX 4

  Hi guys -.

  I do not remember where / y at - it an option to choose the version of the hardware for a virtual machine.  I want to create a model from a RIS server and my dilemma is ESX 4 to create a virtual machine that will be running on ESX 3.5 until the environment is upgraded to 4.0.  I have improved my POC hosts to 4.0 (can only RIS servers in POC environment).  Please let me know if there is an option to change the material to 3.5 instead of 4.0 on my new virtual machine.

  Thank you!!

  Hello.

  When you create the new virtual machine, choose the custom configuration option, then you can specify the version of virtual machine to use.

  Good luck!