This morning a work colleague attended an EMC NetWorker Webinar and asked EMC’s Anu Yamunan the big question we’ve been wanting to know for quite some time. Q: IDATA: ”When will vSphere vStorage API be fully supported by NetWorker ? As the VCB framework is end of life from 25/07/2010 A: EMC: ”We are currently working on leveraging the vStorage API to deliver proxy [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Upgrade considerations for EMC NetWorker configured for VCB backups
Posted: February 25, 2010 in EMC Networker, VCB, VMwareIf your running an older version of NetWorker e.g. 7.3.x and you’ve implemented VMware Consolidated Backups, you need to consider the configuration differences between early and recent versions of NetWorker before upgrading. Lets take a look at the differences Pre NetWorker 7.4.1 each each virtual machine was configured as a saveset in the client instance of the proxy [...]
Site Recovery Manager… is the test button really a test ?
Posted: February 15, 2010 in Site Recovery Manager, VMwareOne of the best features of Site Recovery Manager is the ability to perform regular testing of the DR process without any impact on the production systems. Just recently a mate in the UK called me up with an issue which occurred while he was performing a failover in SRM, I had seen the exact same issue before on a customers site so after [...]
If you’ve ever gone looking for information on how the VSS integration in VMware tools works with VCB, then I’m guessing you come up empty-handed. I remember some time ago reading a document called ” Volume Shadow Service Frequently Asked Questions for VMware Partners ” and thought Id dig it up incase someone found it useful. Why is VMware offering [...]
