Question of the backup.

Hello

Just to get my head around it.

If I had to stop the virtual machine running Lab Manager and all virtual machines that are managed through the Manager of laboratory and then backed up all the restored files, for example in a different data store and their market, they would work?

Kind regards

Nick

CapiZikus,

I can totally understand the frustration, as I have had to explain why the presented backup solution is the only one presented.

UUID of the LUN change is not that big of a deal, as long as you contact support.  We can manually adjust the database of Lab Manager for the new UUID, and we have a tool to set the header VMDK files.

One customer, I did the following:

1 cancel the deployment of all virtual machines of Lab Manager.

2 use a bash script to check for virtual machines power which corresponds to the size of Lab Manager of "/VM/?" -*.vmx", where VM is the Lab Manager subfolder on a storage volume.

3. once all virtual machines are turned off and removed from inventory, backup the subfolder Lab Manager and models (I think that's how he says) to an array of backup (SATA instead of fiber for backup only)

4. ensure that the sata array has the following structure, to ensure the restoration of the consistencies.  He also had a file in the subdirectory VM who had details on the LUN information.

/ vmfs/volumes/SATA/Array / / VM /...

5. Repeat step 4 for all LUNS in the laboratory Manager.

6 save the database of Lab Manager

All this was done via a virtual machine that executed the script.

The restore procedure was the following

1. get back running ESX and vCenter and present the LUNS again (new UUID is fine)

2. (install Lab Manager to match the version of DB if necessary) restore of the database and repair Lab Manager installation (for password problems)

  • You may need to prepare new host if the LM agent does not exist anymore on them or ESX has been reinstalled.

3. connect to Lab Manager and ensure that the new LUNS are presented and functional

4 restore each backed up file on a single LUN (or even just unique is less confusion because it is 1:1 instead of 1 to n changes in the DB)

5. change the DB so that the virtual machines located on the new lun of the UUID correspondents to where they have been restored

6. the script the repair of files VMDK to header to the value "ParentHint" to match the current UUID

7. repeat 4-6 for each unique subfolder in your backup LUN SATA.

8 test Lab Manager, it should be fine now and check for errors

9. remove the OLD UUID of Lab Manager information via the web gui, like the old warehouses of data can be removed.

I did it from memory, so forgive any errors

Kind regards

EvilOne

VMware vExpert 2009

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