For sometime now I’ve been trying to find more information about VMware’s new vStorage API and while digging around I stumbled across this great VMware document called “Designing Backup Solutions for VMware vSphere” The document in its own words has been written to “Introduce code developers to the procedures necessary to create backup and restore software for virtual machines” I know what [...]
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Designing Backup Solutions for VMware vSphere document
Posted: March 3, 2010 in EMC Networker, VCB, VMware0
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week NetWorker 7.5.1 was released on PowerLink, after downloading the package I decided to look through the release notes. Now its safe to say anything to do with VMware and NetWorker interests me so when I saw “Performing A single step recovery of the full virtual machine” I went straight to page 126. If you [...]
Something that’s been lacking from the Networker Management Console pre 7.5 was the ability to create VCB clients via the configuration wizard, well 7.5 now has this built in ! Ive taken some screen shots and below ill take you through the configuration wizard to show just how easy it is. Step1. Open Networker management console, [...]
Ive been performing full image VCB exports of both Windows and Linux virtual machines for quite some time now, I only come across this error when I decided that I would also use the traditional agent based method to backup the file system for some testing I had to do for a customer. Heres the scenario: Perform [...]
