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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

• Can't access file system host (MAC) shared in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client when wanting to create a VMware image (Windows 7 in Parallels virtual machine running on a MAC) for the option of machine Powered On.

  File HOST (Mac) system is currently shared in the Parallels virtual machine and is accessible through Windows Explorer and works correctly in the Virtual Machine environment, however, after installing vCenter Converter application on the Windows virtual machine these shared folders are not accessible from the conversion tool in the selection of the target destination of the file VMware (s). I can't select an existing folder on drive "C:" to write the image so that there is not enough space available for the VMware image and it must be written in a different file system, while the image is being created.

  Anyone know a way around it to show the target to write the image on the host (MAC OS) file system or is it a bug?

  Thanks for the reply.  It seems that the maps are not displayed if they were created as actions by the hosts.  When I created a mapping directly from Windows, then this mapping appeared and the conversion worked fine.

• vCenter Server is a virtual machine, how can I update the host

  I have 2 guests in our environment, I have updated the host of the 2nd, but may not know how to upgrade the 1 host because vcenter server runs as a virtual machine on it. This has me thinking that I don't have the installation program as best as possible.

  Basically, we have 2 Guest boxes and a small box of DC. I don't really want to run vcenter on the dc area. What would be the best soltuong for our environment? Can I keep vcenter as a virtual machine? If Yes, how can I update the host it will run on?

  Thanks in advance everyone... Chris

  I was afraid of that say you that

  Well in this case you may need to update the host manually (see for example http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2011/09/15/updating-esxi-5--single-use-esxcli-how-to) even with the need to manually update the host on which vCenter Server is running, I would always run as a virtual machine. There is usually not that many updates.

  André

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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.

• 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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• 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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• 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

• Use a Parallels virtual machine in VMware Player

  Currently run a Windows XP in Parallels on the Mac. I would like to be able to run this virtual machine in VMware Player in Windows 8.1 65 bit.

  Is it possible, or I have to recreate a new VM XP in VMware Player.

  If it is important it is run on a Microsoft Surface Pro 3.

  I would like to use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone installed in the virtual machine running under Parallels essentially do a V2V and then run the resulting virtual machine under VMware Player.

• 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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• 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