Undocumented VCB config.js feature

Posted by Duncan Epping in February 6th, 2008
Published in BC-DR

One of my customers wanted to use the default VCB framework but did not want to quiesce the VM for several reasons. (Databases, Active Directory etc.) I could not find an option in the config.js file but noticed the following in the file glue.js:

// A fallback to be able to switch to non-quiesced snapshots
if (typeof(NO_QUIESCE) != "undefined") {
cmd +="-Q 0 ";
}

In other words, setting the option “NO_QUIESCE” with no value in config.js results in the VM not being quiesced, default it will quiesce the VM! I added the following line to the  config.js file to accomplish this:

NO_QUIESCE="";


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1. Wade Holmes said,

I have accomplished this also in the past by showing the hidden devices within the VM, and disabling the Legato sync driver.

2. Duncan Epping said,

That’s also an option indeed… you can also chose not to install the sync driver.

3. Scott Lowe said,

Good find, Duncan!

4. Morgan Storey said,

You can also pass vcbmounter the “-Q 0″ options to no quiesce the vm.

5. Duncan said,

Yes, but they wanted to use the scripts instead of the vcbmounter directly…

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