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• Get-Event for virtual machines removed

  Im trying to get a list of VMS created during the last 5 days and also a list of virtual machines removed in the last 5 days for a script of daily problems that I receive by email.

  For the moment, I do something similar for VMS created and following for the deleted VM:

  
  Get-VIEvent -maxsamples 10000 -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-5) | where {$_.fullFormattedMessage -match "Removed*"} | Select createdTime, userName, fullFormattedMessage
   
  

  But unfortunately, it gives me other elements such as ' deleted not configured data store clones "etc etc.

  Is it possible to get precisely the events that refer to a virtual machine being deleted or I will have to do things with regex to search for "VMNAME deleted on HOSTNAME of the data CENTER' cool

  Thank you

  Alan Renouf

  http://Virtu-al.NET

  You can use the event type for the Where-Object.

  Something like that

  
  Get-VIEvent -maxsamples 10000 -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-5) | where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmRemovedEvent"}
  

• 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

• Virtual machines removed by Vsphere Client always in stock VSphereWebClient

  Hello together,

  When I tried on a new system (host 2, 1 iSCII-SAN, Vmware Essentials 5.5) somethings with new virtual machines

  and after I created one, it worked but we have seen, wrong operating system.

  We therefore decided to stop this machine and delete the San.

  This work we don with VSphere Client and evrything seems OK.

  This morning we started the first time that our VSpherWebClient and we still see this machine in the inventory list.

  We couldn t do something remove our something else, because in WebClient, there is no editable function

  and in the VSpehre customer isn´t of the current machine.

  Someone has an idea?

  concerning

  Hi Tim,.

  Thanks for all communications, it was useful for me.

  Now, I did the solution my way:

  I use the unit of Service VCenter and (after duplicate the original files in a folder on the data store)

  I started the default configuration wizard.

  After the process, I realized all the network settings are correct

  and all the things that now works correct.

  But it was only for my situation with a Datacenter without existing VMs and a lot of information in the

  inventory.

  I m is not sure this solution: a virtual machine on the data store a safe way for VCENTER Server.

  Maybe for Cluster HA or DSR it wise, but I think it's very important to have backups from the

  settings and inventory.

  Anyway, our system is running, and now that we can begin to move our VM´s.

  best regards and thank you

  Rolf

• Keep repeating tasks in virtual machine

  I have a VM (view-001) which continues to repeat the task of powering on, and then launch of comments pending.  He directed these operations several times on the same VM about every minute.

  I tried to remove view-001 thru View Manager, but then the next VM, View-002 has started doing the same thing and continues to do so.

  Has anyone seen this problem?

  View try to keep a certain number of workstations online at all times it is why he continues to feed this virtual machine online.   I saw the question several times and the only way I could stop had to have enough machines in line so that it does not need to start this particular machine.   It's a weird problem and in fact, I opened a ticket on it with VMware but wasn't able to get traction.

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Backup of virtual machines in ESX

  Hello

  I have several VM in two ESX 4 day 1 host. Now, I need to make a backup of all the virtual machines. But I still think prepare a routine that make this successive copies. VMware has a program/system to planificate this? Thank you.

  Best way is to use 3rd party specialized solution. I prefer Veeam Backup.

  Since you are using vSphere Essentials check out Veeam Essentials - all-in-one package for SMB with discount.

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• 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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• Backup of virtual machines really necessary?

  Hello

  I have a few virtual machines running with Windows. I save the machines under windows in the form of images. From the images, I can possibly restore the entire machine or single files.

  So, when my machine goes down I could create a new machine in ESXi and restore from my backup image.

  Does make sense to make a parallel backup virtual machines with free solutions described in this community, because if I would back up my data twice.

  Is that not wrong? What is your opinion?

  Concerning

  Peter

  There is only one hardware requirement, in the new virtual machine u must use the hard drive of the same size or more, but not smaller than the disk of the failed computer, performance differences are few

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• options for the backup of virtual machines

  I intend to make regular backups of Backup Exec of my virtual machines as I normally would with a physical server.

  What other options do people use to make backups of their virtual machines?  I Imaging it has options of snapshot in vcenter, I could also take pictures on my SAN... anything else?

  VCB belongs to VMware, command line for most... There are a few 3rd tools part that you can watch that inspire the VCP, some add a GUI, they are expensive but one vRanger connection, look it up. Backup exec can work if you have installed the agent on the virtual computer, etc., but who receives only the files in the comments. Get a backup of the actual files that make up the virtual machine is a little more difficult... the VM must be suspended so to speak, in order to get a good backup files vmdk, etc, that's what can make the 3rd party tools.

  If you can not pass the dough, then search VCB. You will need to know some scripts, but there are tons of rescources here and there that can help you.

  I hope this helps.

  Jim

• Backup of virtual machines

  Is it possible to set up 3.5u3 ESXi host to save the virtual machine, while they are running?

  There are no many solutions on how to backup s VM on an ESXi host at the momemt the lack of service console including large companies of backup allows backup of the virtual computer running.  Many of them are not far to travel but nothing too stable yet.  There was people who use backup scripts to do this.  See - http://communities.vmware.com/message/1063420#1063420

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• Strategies of backup for virtual machines 200 +?

  Hello

  I have a question for you guys - if you have more than 100 virtual machines in your environment or your virtual machines are large & gt; 50GB, so what's your backup strategy for them? Are you using the VCB to backup all, or maybe you install the normal backup client (Veritas, CA, etc.) and backup via LAN? Or maybe you have other solutions for backup process?

  If you VCB, you have more than one VCB proxy? Or you start all on one server (a single script of vcb?)

  Thanks for any info.

  I should also mention that we use traditional backup for file servers agents over 200 Gb.  Ranger has a level file restore option, but it can take hours to reopen the file because it is compressed during the backup process.  I would also like to stress that the file formats shown in the screenshot are files zipped after the backup.  the size depends on how much space is used in the VMDK file.  some of the virtual machine listed are 50 to 70 GB vmdk files which are compressed within a 15 GB.  Also, when you are restoring is an exact replica of the original.  Some of my 50 GB VM restore tests were less than 30 minutes.

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