On 8/7/06, William Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes it is, but if you quiesce or stop the VM using that VMFS, you can back it up as a normal file from the ESX server using the 5.2.4 Linux TSM client. There are several papers on the TSM site about backing up Vmware ESX server and links from that over to Vmware's site.
Backing up virtual machine by backing up their file system is (not only in my opinion) generally dangerous - data is not consistent. We use tivoli client on ESX server (by the way - still 2.5.3p1) AND tivoli clients on each virtual machine. This guarantee REAL consistence of data in virtualization machine (ESX) and in virtual environment.
We do this weekly for our ESX servers...quiesce the VM's one at a time and backup the VMDK files. We have successfully recovered these VM's at our disaster recovery site.
This generaly depend on type of virtual machine - if machine is for example SQL server, probability of successfully recovering machine is very, very small. Machine which generally do something and wait for another request (www server, for example) can be backed up using tivoli client on ESX server. And, of course, this is only our and our integrator (ibm) experience, maybe in another environment (we have for now 4 ESX machine with aprox. 25 virtual machine, most of them are linux)
Bill Boyer DSS, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojtek Piecek Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 7:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VMFS3 filespace...... Hi, VMFS and especially VMFS3 is special file system with implemented only some functions of classic FS, so probably backup using tivoli will never work, or never work correctly. Try vmware tools (integrated backup or something like) for tivoli, maybe this help. On 8/1/06, Nielsen, Bo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there someone who is using TSM to backup VMFS3 filespace on a ESX > server 3.0??? > Which TSM Client is using, and how is *.VMDK file backed up??? > > aOaRegards > Bo Nielsen > * +45 4386 4671 > Coop Norden IT * (Internt postcenter): 6244 > Data & Storage Center * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember, a > dead fish can float downstream, But it takes a live one to svim > upstream. - W.C. Fields. > -- --w
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