Don't ask me :-) I just do the work Im asked to perform hehe
-----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VSS and VM Ware Cause I'm out of my mind!!!! (Bad planning) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:22 PM Subject: RE: VSS and VM Ware AFAIK, its enabled by volume only, an architectural requirement I guess if you will... <VBG> Why are your VM's on the same volume as a file share (Or same server) :) jlc -----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VSS and VM Ware I have file shares on the host machine that users access and would like to give them the ability to use VSS to restore their files, I dont really want VSS to touch the guest machine actually. Is there a way to have VSS run on certain folders instead of the whole volume? James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph L. Casale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:10 PM Subject: RE: VSS and VM Ware That's natively supported by vmware-cmd, that comes with vmserver, you don't need anything else. Good idea to keep downtime low... jlc -----Original Message----- From: Sam Cayze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VSS and VM Ware Dig back in the archives on this list, there are some utilities that can suspend a vm for a minute or two allowing a vss backup to work. -----Original Message----- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:20 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VSS and VM Ware You can't reliably snap a virtual HD while windows is running. If you restored to it, when you boot windows it will come up from an inconsistent state as if the power cord had been pulled from a physical computer. You can do it, but a safe approach would be to enable snaps manually only, and make sure the VM's are off when you do it at which point i/o is obviously quiesced in the guest (of course) and not high in the host (no guests running) so the snap would happen rather quickly. YMMV, jlc -----Original Message----- From: James Kerr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 9:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VSS and VM Ware If I run VSS on a volume that contains a VM Ware server, will it cause me problems? Will the virtual server be unresponsive while the VSS service is looking at it? Is it a bad idea to run VSS on a volume with a virtual server? An inquiring mind wants to know. Thanks, James ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
