Yes, all third party products use VCB, however, VCB by itself is a little more difficult to setup. The third party product eliminates having to do all of the custom scripting.
Original Message: ----------------- From: Jonathan Link [email protected] Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:56:10 -0400 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VMWare tools vRanger uses VCB. IIRC, all third party backup solutions for VM's require VCB. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:51 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use VCB or third party backup solution such as vRanger. The key is > what are your backup needs and budget. VCB works in conjuction with third > party products to do full VMDK and file level backups. The key is if you > need your VM nees quiesed before snapshot. I believe VCB alone may not do > this. Plus with VCB alone you will have to setup backup scripts manually. > The best solution if your budget allows is a third party solution installed > on a backup proxy. > > Mike > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Bill Songstad [email protected] > Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:01:27 -0700 > To: [email protected] > Subject: VMWare tools > > > I've been using ESXi 3.5 for about six months and I have run up on a need > that is not covered in the free hypervisor. So, as any industrious sole > might, I went to the VMware website to see what products might suit my > needs. And Viola! There I discovered that the marketing folks at VMware > are > sadists probably hired from the microsoft licensing team. > > So what I am polling about here is this: What are the essential tools for > managing VMware virtual servers? > > What I need is pretty simple. I just want to make backups of my servers > that I can restore to a different host without shutting them down or at the > very least by a script that I can run on Saturday nights. I don't > necessarily need to have vmotion especially since the products that include > it are more than my total server hardware budget. > > Are there less expensive tools from other publishers that I should check > out? The VMware stuff is a little outside my budget as far as I can divine > from their website. > > Any advice is appreciated, > > Bill > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
