I received an email from one of my readers, Kevin, about using the VSS Driver for Backups. As of 3.5 Update 2 this feature has been introduced. I knew that there was a catch to using the VSS Driver but it seems that many people have overlooked a little detail on page 50 of the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘VCB’
in the ghetto….
November 18th, 2009
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William Lam just updated two of his most popular scripts. If you haven’t looked at them yet, make sure you do as they are worth it. ghettoVCB(g2) enables the backup of virtual machines residing on either an ESX or ESXi host. ghettoVCBg2 is a complete rewritten and enhanced version of ghettoVCB or as William puts [...]
VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 released!
July 12th, 2009
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Although the VMware download section has not been updated VMware Data Recovery 1.0.1 has been officially released. Click on VMware Data Recovery 1.0 in the download section and you will be presented with the following:
Latest Released Version: 1.0.1 | [...]
VCB Management Console 1.0.6 Beta
March 25th, 2009
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@lamw pointed me out via twitter to the “diy” VCB Management Console. The “vcbMC” is a front end for scheduling and creating backup jobs based on VMware Consolidated Backup. As “athlon_crazy” points out you don’t need to remember all the VCB commands and parameters. You can use vcbMC to browse all your VM’s and back [...]
VCB and Diskeeper
March 5th, 2009
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I just noticed this new KB article:
Diskeeper is a 3rd party defragmentation product that has the ability to defragment unmounted NTFS volumes that are presented to the VMware Consolidated Backup proxy. This means that it can defragment RDM LUNs. Unfortunately, this creates the possibility of inconsistencies in the file system if there is a virtual [...]
Veeam Backup 3.0 supports ESXi, including free version!
February 17th, 2009
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Veeam just released Backup 3.0 with ESXi(including the Free version) support:
In addition to the ESXi backup through VCB that was introduced with version 2.0, Veeam Backup 3.0 now supports ESXi backup without VCB. Veeam Backup is the only VMware backup solution that lets you backup and restore virtual machines running on all existing editions of [...]
VM Template best practices (Linux)
November 11th, 2008
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I was just reading up on my Google Reader. A lot of information been dropped over the last couple of days and more and more people are getting active on the VMware blogoshere. One of the articles that really caught my attention was the “VM Template best practices (Linux)” by Leo Raikhman.
Leo did a great [...]
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