Best way to backup virtual machines?

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• Best way to migrate virtual machines to new ESXi hosts with a different configuration of networking.

  We currently have a cluster of 6 Dell machines that move VM 120 or so on ESXi 5.5. Networking consists of a dVswitch with 6 uplinks that map to 6 x 1gig physical NETWORK adapters on each host ESXi... These are grouped into 3 trunks / gal, so we have 2 GB by SHIFTING of the bandwidth and failover. The LAGS are configured as follows:

  LAG1

  Traffic to our (NFS) shared data store and management of ESXi. (vmk0)

  LAG2

  Access to the network of the VM - groups of different ports on different VLANS

  LAG3

  vMotion (vmk1)

  We just bought 6 new Dell machines that have connections fiber 2 x 10gig each. The idea is to bring together in a 20Ggig LAG by machine that will handle all of the traffic, so traffic NFS data store, network traffic from the VM, vMotion and traffic management ESXi.

  
  

  What is the best way to migrate the virtual machine in the cluster existing to the new machines? Many of the virtual machine are essential, so we cannot stop time.

  
  

  Can I create the new DELAY on existing dVswitch and put it as an auxiliary card? I'll be able to do it for all 3 of the above both above LAGS?

  
  

  Thanks for the info Alistar, it's almost here. The bit that was me stumping was that after establishing a new dVswitch I received messages that the new dvSwitch was not reachable on the old host, when I tried to migrate the virtual computer.

  The solution (with the permission of VMware Support) was that I need to add the two dVswitches to one of the old hosts, then assign a physical alternative on this host uplink to a temporary 3 uplink on the new dVswitch. I then tag all the relevant VLAN that uplink.

  This way I can first migrate the virtual machine to the new dVswitch networking so I can move the computer to the new cluster.

  Obviously I can only migrate from old to new cluster with a single host. each virtual machine must be a double for the host with 2 switches, and then to the new cluster. I also had to have the two dVswitches to the same version.

  Fortunately, I had a physical rising spare on the hosts of the old, otherwise I would have had to break one of the trunks and re-use of one of these uplinks.

  Oh and be aware, impossible to use the same names for groups of ports 2 DV switches, they must be unique!

  Nick

• What is the best way to restore virtual machines after a refresh of the server

  Hi all

  First time poster here. A group of people at my work have their own VMWare environment which they install later. It has 3 virtual machines running on it, and they want to set up a fourth. Unfortunately the new machine, they want to put in place is going to be almost 1 TB in size, and they initially setup the VMFS datastore to 1 MB, which means that a machine can be as large as 256GB.

  Research, it seems that there is absolutely no way to work around this problem, except to redo the data store. Is this correct? If this is the case, I was looking at a way to save the three current machines and to reload them after it is updated. A way that I thought was to go browse the data store and copy all the files on my local machine to the virtual machine (.nvram, hard, .vmx etx... all the files), wipeout and redo the ESXi host with the correct setting of data store, build the machines VMS in vSphere, and then replace the files with those copied. This works perfectly? I don't see a lot of information out there about it and I want to make sure that I have not to spoil the VMs. This environment consists of 1 ESXi host with all the local storage (2 TB).

  Also, if anyone knows a better way to do this, please feel free to give your comments. I would really appreciate it.

  Thank you

  Hello

  Welcome to the community!

  Research, it seems that there is absolutely no way to work around this problem, except to redo the data store. Is this correct?

  Yes, unfortunately there no way to change the block size of the datastore to vmfs without reformatting.

  If this is the case, I was looking at a way to save the three current machines and to reload them after it is updated. A way that I thought was to go browse the data store and copy all the files on my local machine to the virtual machine (.nvram, hard, .vmx etx... all the files), wipeout and redo the ESXi host with the correct setting of data store, build the machines VMS in vSphere, and then replace the files with those copied. This works perfectly? I have

  Yes, it will work. You have just to copy all files in this VMFS datastore to a place safe and download once the block size has increased. Once the download is complete, navigate to the virtual machine, the virtual machine folder right click and save the VMX.

  You can find the steps to change the size of the block VMFS in this KB. VMware KB: block the size of a VMFS data store limitations

• 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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• Best way to move virtual machines between two clusters: HP and UCS

  Hello

  We move the virtual machines in the cluster UCSChassis: 6 guests ESXi in a Cluster of HPChassis.

  I wonder how do it with minimum downtime.

  Thanks for your help,

  If you have shared storage - expose the storahe where virtual machines are stored to both sets of guests - and the hosts are ocmpatible you can vmotion - or at least - to stop the mover VM's from the environment of the UCS and add it to the HP environment.

  If you can't share the storage you - you can use VMwate Standalone converter and V2V the VMs-

• What is the best way to backup a hard drive full of pictures and videos on another external hard drive?

  What is the best way to backup a hard drive full of pictures and videos on another external hard drive? I want an exact clone-

  Drag and Drop? Time Machine?

  Thank you. DB

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  If you want an exact clone, you will need to use a utility like utility disk, Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!

• 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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• Best ways to backup free ESXi?

  Hello

  I think to use the free version of the ESXi (4.0) for some production VMs, namely a file server, but my biggest concern is to make sure that they get saved correctly. I know with the paid version of vSphere, you get the best options of backup, but what are my options with the free version? I hope someone can answer these questions for me:

  (1) if I want to just manually copy the virtual files that make up the VMs system (VMDK, vmxs, etc.) to another location on the network, do I need to stop the virtual machines before I can do this? What happens if I copy during the race. He let me same? If I have these copies, and my ESXi host goes down, I should be able to put them on another ESXi host by adding to its inventory, correct?

  (2) I read on a tool called ghettoVCB, but documentation looked pretty scary. For someone new mV, it's something that I could easily set up, or that it will be a nightmare to make it work?

  (3) level backup of files what? I have backup exec, but it seems that if I need to buy the $3 k if virtual agent I want to use for the VMs backup. This may be a question for the Symantec forums, but backup exec will allow me to do just granular base backups of a virtual computer, agentless files? In other words, if I do not need to backup the VMDK, etc and just want to save the data of the company on the virtual file server as if I had to back up a physical box, can do this without the virtual backup exec agent?

  (4) ideally I think I would like to manually copy files VMFS from time to time to have an image of the operating system of the virtual machine, then do file level backups every night with backup exec. That sounds like a good plan, or is there a better way to do it? If so, any other ideas would be appreciated.

  Thank you

  Josh

  Take a snapshot, make the copy, and then remove the snapshot to save the VMDK.  Which freezes the entire file in time whereas it is copied (but does not stop the virtual machine).

  Backups at level OS using BackupExec are very good.  "Bare metal" restore will be longer.

  Manual copy of the VMs would be fine or use ghettoVCB as you read.  Don't forget to keep copies of your VMX files because these can become corrupted in certain situations.

  HTH

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  Please give points for any helpful answer.

• Best way to backup to clean install XP

  For everything that you XP pros out there-apparently, I need to do a clean reinstall of my XP pro in order to mitigate the problems and I was wondering the best way to back up files and settings? I train utility backup of Windows file and Settings Transfer Wizard. External recording on HD been wondering way to restore files, settings, Favorites, etc. A representative Dell told me that FASTING is not good because it can restore the things that are corrupt and dup both the problem.

  Thanks, Van

  First of all, Clean installs are rarely necessary. What are your specific issues? If all goes well, we will guide you to solve them quickly. :-)

  That being said, the data backup is an excellent idea. You should always do this regardless of whether or not you are about to perform a clean installation. For now, why not simply use Windows Explorer to copy your files on the external hard drive? You probably already know where most of them exist. Your IE favorites are probably at this place:

  C:\Documents and Settings\ [user profile] \Favorites

  If you use Outlook Express for e-mail, you should look at this page:

  http://www.insideoe.com/backup/

  By default, your OE message store is located here:

  Bank of C:\My Outlook Express Identity\Message

  By default, your OE address book is located here:

  C:\Documents and Settings\ [user profile] \Application Data\Microsoft\Address guide\ [user profile] .wab

  In the future (coming soon!), you should really consider a regular backup strategy. The default backup program Windows XP (ntbackup) is old and has its limits. I would avoid it. It would be much better to use an imaging program like Acronis True Image Home or Paragon backup and restore.

• How do I backup virtual machines free ESXI?

  Hi all

  I tried to use Veeam but for reasons beyond my comprehension, they support free ESXI! The only other way I can think is to export OVF to each virtual machine, but it's very heavy.

  I use ESXI 5.0.

  ... and to add to what has already mentioned the André - take a look at explore Trilead VMX

• How can I backup virtual machines in Esxi 3.5 free

  I am new to vmware and virtual systems.  Server has four virtual servers on it.  It seems that the data store has taken all the disk space.  How can I save each virtual machine so I can upgrade the software to Esxi 4.X?

  Given that you want to back up the virtual machine, chose the download. Copy to create a copy of the file on the data store that is not logical backup.

  BTW. You can take a look at of Veeam FastSCP if you want to backup to your (local or shared) downlaoding files) disk.

  André

• Best method to move virtual machines Linux of VC 2.5/ESX 3.5 to 4.0/ESX4 vCentre

  Guys,

  I have to move a number of them. The two groups are there. If it is not a question about the upgrade of the VC/ESX. I want to use the simplest method possible to move these VMs and here's my plan:

  1 copy the whole directory of VM from the data store on VC 2.5 to the data store on vCentre 4.

  2. Add the virtual machine to inventory in vCentre 4.

  3. upgrade VMware tools

  4. switch to hardware version 7.

  And that's all. Please let me know if this plan is feasible, or more importantly, no holes in the plan.

  Thank you

  Hello

  You have a few options:

  1. you can bring up the old data store for ESX 4.x and save the VM on vCenter 4.0.

  2. you can add that the host ESX to vCenter 4.0 3.5 move virtual machines in ESX 4.0 cluster.  You can use vMotion and Storage vMotion, according to your needs.

  3. you can use the stand-alone converter to make a hot cloning of Linux virtual machines in ESX 4.0.

  Best wishes / Saludos

  -

• Backup Virtual Machines on the (external) drive using only vSphere4 customer?

  Hello

  I'm trying to make a backup of my virtual drive installed on an external hard drive (eSATA). The disc is recognized and everything seems fine, but I can't find a feature in vSphere4 client that allows me to copy a virtual machine. In "Datastore Browser", there is a function that allows to move the virtual machine to a data store to another, but not copy.

  The only option that I've found so far is to copy the virtual machine for the labtop vSphere4 a client by using the "Download" feature but it is very very slow due to 100MBit/s network and HARD drive connected by USB.

  I missed something in the vSphere4 customer?

  I am aware that VMware Data Recovery does just that, but I don't have the money to buy the necessary license.

  Kind regards

  Thomas

  One option is to enter the folder, select all the files, right click and select copy, and then create a new folder, enter into it, right click and select Paste.

  André

• best way to backup vms to local storage

  Hello

  I have an ESXi 3.5, which must be reinstalled with 4i version, but it is necessary to backup and later restore 3 VMs on that host. Is it possible to stop VMs, copy via SCP all folders (with files) to any other disk of windows (in the form of files) and after having reinstalled to ESXi4 copy him on newly created datastore? It will work without problems? If I understand well if I go to virtual machines and add to the inventory of these "backup" files then this VM will boot without any problems?

  Thanks for any response.

  After the resettlement and return the copy all files via SCP to the new data store and then search for VM, choosing good files VMX, which adds VM inventory and let it run without any problem?

  Yes, make sure you only back up (and restore) the entire VM folder.

  André

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• Best way to upgrade 9 machines to monthly subscription?

  I have 9 machines (3 PC and 6 Mac) upgrade to monthly subscriptions - 8 of them are already on CS5... What is the best way to start this process?

  Hi Emily,.

  To my knowledge, "Creative Cloud for teams" is appropriate for you. Also, if you use the product for a year then it is better if you buy an annual subscription in which only the commitment is for one year, but you will pay monthly-wise. Check this link for more details about Creative Cloud for teams below:

  http://www.Adobe.com/products/creativecloud/FAQ.html#CCM-teams

  Kind regards

  Fatiha