VSS Snapshots

Posted by Duncan Epping in July 26th, 2008
Published in BC-DR

If you just upgraded to 3.5 Update 2 and updated VMware tools and want to use VSS for snapshotting than you will have to enable this manually for each VM:

  1. In the VMware Tools installer, select Modify > Drivers > VSS.
  2. Complete the installation process.
  3. Restart the virtual machine to make sure VSS components are installed and running.

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1. jason said,
August 23rd, 2008 at 14:59

so does the vmware vss service need to be in the started mode. Mine is in manual.

When i started a snapshot on exchange i dont see in the event logs any notification of any vss or legato drivers

thanks

2. jason said,
August 23rd, 2008 at 15:27

so it seems these vss options are kicked off only when you use VCB. So should we still stay away from taking vmware snapshots of DBs like exchange sql and ad?

3. Duncan said,
August 23rd, 2008 at 16:47

Yeah, stay away from it!

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