There is a fix that I would have to go looking for again but it used the built-in backup on the host to do the entire machine host and vms all live. I had 6 VM's running on a Dell 2950. Total on box about 1.3 GB and it would take about 2 to 4 hours to do the full image backups and the VMs stayed live. Load tested by accident during working hours and I had no complaints from the users.
Jon On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]>wrote: > We choose Hyper-V because it is an excellent solution for no additional > fee. Also, 5 of my 6 servers may have been supported by the free ESXi, but > the last one wasn't supported for it's raid, forcing us to look for a > different solution. > > The one thing of Hyper-V I was not thrilled about was their (lack of) built > in backup solution. The Windows backup in Server 2008 R2 is okay, I guess... > but I do wish there was a better solution. Anybody have a free/inexpensive > backup solution that will backup a live Hyper-V VM? I have a server offsite > where I want to do a weekly VM image backup for disasters that my file level > backup cannot handle. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kennedy, Jim > [mailto:[email protected]] > To: NT System Admin Issues > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 > 06:47:39 -0700 > Subject: VMWare vs Hyper-V > > > > Probably a can of worms here but we have not done much virtualization but > > are about to get into it more. It will be pretty simple virtualization, a > > couple of big boxes running 4 or 5 virtualized servers each. No cluster > > failovers or anything like that. We dabbled in VMWare before Hyper-V > became > > mature but now I need to pick one and run with it. I am leaning towards > > Hyper-V because it is included with our license and so far has been > pretty > > painless in testing. I found VMWare to be confusing with all the > different > > packages, licensing...upgrades and all that. I suspect it provides far > more > > flexibility but not knowing what that flexibility really is concerns me. > > > > So thought I would ask the knowledgeable masses here if I am missing > > anything important. > > > > TIA > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
