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• best practices for backup of bi

  Hello
  
  Who can suggest me best practices for backup and restore of dashboard reports integer bi, permissions and etc.?
  
  Ed,

  Hello

  If you want to move entire dashboards, reports, permissions
  Zip the *Web / catalog folder and move new environment. In new relax unwind this catalogue and Instanceconfig.xml mention the path for this new catalogue.

  If you want to move a few reports or dashboads, do so by Catalog Manager.

  Thank you.

• Best practices for backup of a VM Web server?

  This question comes from another thread, that I created, but I figure I might as well start a thread fresh since it is his own question.

  Basically, I have an environment that I inherited when I started my new job within this environment, there is a lonely VM that runs from our Web server and was created using VMware player (will go to the workstation for the snapshot feature).

  I am extremely concerned by the fact that there is no backup strategy for it, so I'm interested in finding the best way to save this virtual machine.

  Being that it's a machine virtual I instantly thought, but of course I'm open to dictate what best practices.

  A lot of what I've read so far indicates to stop or suspend the virtual machine, then copy files, however is there a way to do that without temporarily take down my Web server?  It's just that we have customers in the world that has access to the server to different time zones and I want her to be in place 24/7.

  You'll have to stop the Virtual Machine and close VMware Player and uninstall VMware Player to install VMware Workstation and it is the time where you should make a backup copy of the master of the Virtual Machine.  Once installed VMware Workstation and the Virtual Machine is back and then runs to reduce the minimum time for subsequent backups you necessarily do not do such proposed by Richardson Porto although I don't disagree with what he says.

  In theory anyway, and in practice, when you want to backup you would take a cliché Hot and then copy the Parent disk such that it is now read-only and the Virtual Machine is still running while you make a copy of the Parent disk.  Once you have copied the Parent disk, you can then remove the snapshot thus merging Delta and drive Parent and now ready for the next time you want to back up the drive.  The duration of that Virtual Machine is interrupted during the snapshot warm and hot snapshot delete should be considerably less and then stop and restart the virtual machine.  The reason why I said "in theory" because while it is supposed to work in practice, nevertheless if you correctly shutdown the guest operating system before capture instant, so you do not rely on VMware Workstation to make sure that everything works all in being hot.  Not that you should have problems, it's hot, however you remove a layer of the process that has the potential of being wrong compared to when is cold, even if it is cold takes a little longer.

  In both cases, I would avoid cloning because it changes the UUID and MAC address of the clone of the parent company and by creating a second occurrence technically need a second license for the Windows operating system that is installed on the cloned virtual machine.  In other words an archived copy complete or exact unedited from the original is a legitimate backup a clone of IMO is a second occurrence but it has a different UUID and MAC address.  It would be like taking a copy of the operating system with a single license and install on two different physical computers.  Also by doing as I have suggested and make a backup copy of Master of the Virtual Machine and then just save the Parent read-only disks disk hard virtual are themselves not a computer virtual and just that copy a backup, however can be used to restore the same Virtual Machine driven and not having not any changes in the UUID MAC addresses etc.

  Finally, you should look into what you are running in the guest operating system and how to properly save Web Site and database, or user data etc in the guest operating system.  In other words, you should always have a copy backup of the virtual machine and everything that is necessary in the guest operating system to be able to restore it without necessarily restore all of the Virtual Machine.  IMO it's better to have several and backup types to have more options in a recovery scenario!

• Best practices for backup service console configuration

  Hello

  When you install our ESX servers, I did what I thought was best practices and created a "backup" vswitch with a second service console. Two service consoles have IP addresses on the same subnet.

  They work very well for several weeks. But today, I had a problem connecting to the consoles of the virtual machines on one of our ESX host. After much troubleshooting, I found doc below...

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?language=en_US & externalId = 749640

  In point 8, it is said to make sure that you do not have 2 consoles of service on the same network. (Either by the way once I removed the backup vswitch I could access the consoles.)

  I so wanted to check this - should I not create these backup service consoles?

  TIA,

  H

  You don't have to second service console, just a second link to SC.

  Add a NIC to portgroup SC (it can be standby NIC), which would be enough.

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• Best practices for backup of vCenter device and ESXi hosts?

  Hello

  I have a new VMware environment based on 5.5 ESXi and vCenter Server Appliance. A few questions:

  • What is the best practice to perform the backup of the vCenter Server Appliance? I set up the camera with the embedded SQL Express database.
  • It's recommended to backup the ESXi host or is it easier to any re - install failure?

  Best regards
  ,

  Thor-Egil

  Hello

  You can use VMware VDP to backup your device of vCenter. It is included in essentials, standard, enterprise, and enterprise as well as licenses.

  I won't have backups of ESXi servers. Restore the backup would take more time that the deployment of a new ESXi.Only thing, you may want to consider is to enable logging remotely, so you can see why the hosts failed.

  Concerning

  Tim

• Where can I find a guide of best practices for adobe shockwave player security?

  Hello everyone

  I work at a company that still use Sockwave and let me know if it is possible to find that a good guide to secure this app.

  I'm looking for a document or something that looks like the Acrobat application security Guide for Acrobat Reader (of course)

  Any idea?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  
  

  Nice day
  

  Just keep updated to the latest version (as all software), and you should be fine.

• 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

• Best practices for backup and restore

  Hello!

  I couldn't find any recommended official VMware to backup/restore the components of vCenter: vCenter, SSO, Update Manager, heartbeat...

  Anyone provide any doc where it should be mentioned?

  Thank you.

  Discover this for SSO. VMware KB: backup and restore of the configuration of VMware vCenter Single Sign-On 5.5

  Thank you

  DJ

• Best practices for HP DL385p G8

  Trying to find documentation for the implementation of a HP DL385p G8 for VMware Server. I would like to find a guide to best practices for this server? Been looking for but not found anything. I would like to find things are should hyperthreading turned on and so on. I use the ESXI from HP image for pilots, that all work but just want to find the settings.

  Thank you

  Hello

  you will find on this blog: BIOS settings in a VMware ESX (i) / vSphere environment. VirtualKenneth & #039; s Blog - hqVirtual | Quality rental a detailed explanation on all the BIOS settings and why you should enable or disable it.

  hope that helps.

• What is the best practice for a 'regular' Server VMware and VDI environment?

  What is the best practice for a "regular" VMware Server and VDI environment?   A single environment (ESXi and SAN) can accommodate two if it is a whole new configuration?  Or even better to keep separate?

  Enjoying inputs.

  Quick and dirty answer is that "it depends."

  serioulsy, it depends really two things budget and IO.  If you had the money for two without then buy two and don't have to host your server environment and the other for VDI desktop, their IO profiles are completely different.

  If this is not the case, try to keep each type of use for their own dedicated LUN.

• Best practices for vsphere 5.1

  where can I find the doc more up-to-date about berries EQL configuration / best practices with vmware vsphere 5.1

  Hello

  Here is a link to a PDF file that covers best practices for ESXi and EQL.

  Best EqualLogic practices ESX

  en.Community.Dell.com/.../20434601.aspx

  This doc mentions specifically that the storage Heartbeat VMKernel port is no longer necessary with ESXi v5.1.  VMware has corrected the problem that made it necessary.

  If you add it to a 5.1 system it will not hurt.  It will take an IP address for each node.

  If you upgrade 5.0 to 5.1, you can delete it later.

  Here is a link to VMware which addresses this issue and has links to other Dell documents which confirm also that it is fixed in 5.1.

  KB.VMware.com/.../Search.do

  Kind regards

• Best practices for storing the Logs of the system for all newly improved ESXi hosts?

  Hi people,

  What are the options and best practices for the Logs of the system for all newly improved 5.1u1 ESXi hosts?

  Do I need to have the Syslog server or it can be safely ignored?

  Thank you

  Evening,

  Syslog is preferred, but VMware has provided a collector of syslog on the vcenter installation disc can be installed on any windows host or your vcenter. I can't count the number of times where I had guests CMTF or newspapers lost... Fortunately for the syslog which collects up to the accident.  It is not necessary, but it's really a good idea without any real cost since you can use your vcenter host.

  Here is an article on how to install it:

  Set up Syslog ESXi collector | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

  Thank you

• Best practices for SQL

  I started a discussion a few weeks there is movement .vmdks from the supplier of storage to another in regard to and got some great answers.  What I didn't ask was if the hard contain databases SQL is there special considerations when you cut storage EMC VNX (pools versus grpoups raid) or when the data store is created in vCenter.  I know that this may be more an EMC forum question but maybe someone in the world of VMware has a recommendation or can provide a link to best practices for the VNX.  Thank you.

  Post edited by: vmroyale to change the case of SQL

  Have you seen the document "using EMC VNX with VMware vSphere storage solutions"?

• Best practices for vSphere 5 Networking

  Hi all

  Given the following environment:

  (1) 4 physical servers, each server has 16 (Gigabit) network interface cards will install vSphere 5 std.

  (2) 2 switches with SAN storage battery function

  (3) 2 Equallogic PS4000 SAN (two controllers)

  (4) 2 switches for the traffic of the virtual machine

  As for networking, I intend create some vSwitches on each physical server as follows

  1 vSwitch0 - used for iSCSI storage

  6 network adapters are associated with IP-hash, multitracks with iSCSI Storage consolidation policy. and storage load balancing is round Rodin (vmware)

  (vmware suggests to use 2 cards for 1 traget of IP storage, I'm not sure)

  2 vSwitch1 - used for the virtual machine

  6 Teamed network adapters for the traffic of the virtual machine, with the hash intellectual property policy

  3 vSwitch2 - management

  2 network cards are associated

  4 vSwitch3 - vMotion

  2 network cards are associated

  You would like to give me some suggestions?

  Alex, the standard set by the storage and VMware is used by dell for their servers and tested sound on their equipment and the publication of the document, it is recommended...

  This sound is the best practice for dell server with this model mentioned in the document to use.

  Hope that clarifies...

• Best practices for managing strategies of path

  Hello

  I get conflicting advice on best practices for managed paths.

  We are on version 4.0 of ESXi connection to a HP EVA8000. Best practices guide HP recommends setting the strategy of railways handle on Round Robin.

  This seems to give two active paths to the optimized controller. See: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA1-2185ENW.pdf

  We used certain consultants and they say that the best practices of Vmware for this solution is to use the MRU policy which translates a single path to the optimized controller.

  So, any idea what good practice is best practice? Does make a difference?

  TIA

  Rob.

  Always go with the recommendation of the storage provider.  VMware recommendation is based on the characteristics of the generic array (controller, capable ALUA failover methods, etc.).  The storage provider's recommendation is based on their performance and compatibility testing.  You may want to review their recommendations carefully, however, to ensure that each point is what you want.

  With the 8000, I ran with Round-Robin.  This is the option of creating more robust paths available to you from a failover and performance point of view and can provide performance more even through the ports on the storage controller.

  While I did of the specific tests/validation, the last time that I looked at the docs, the configuration of HP recommends that you configure each IO to the ports in the switch configuration.  This adds the charge to the ESX host, the switch to other ports, but HP claims that their tests showed that it is the optimal configuration.  It was the only parameter I wondered in their recommendation.

  If you haven't done so already, be sure to download the HP doc on configuring ESX and EVA bays.  There are several parameters that you must configure the policy path, as well as a few scripts to help make the changes.

  Virtualization of happy!

  JP

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