Sorry did not look it up but the fix I am thinking of was on the MS TechNet site and involved a registry hack.
Jon On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > Is wbadmin what you're referring to? > > > http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog/2009/11/setting-up-windows-server-backup-on-hyper-v-server-2008-r2/ > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > > ~ 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
