One of the best new VCB features is SSPI Authentication. Consolidated Backup can now authenticate using SSPI when it is configured to connect to VirtualCenter. With SSPI, passwords do not need to be stored as plain text in config.js. SSPI is also used for the passthrough authentication that VirtualCenter supports as of 2.5 U2.
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: In the VMware Tools installer, select Modify > Drivers > VSS. Complete the installation process. Restart the virtual machine to make sure VSS components are installed and running.
Am I the first one to notice this? VMware just released Update 2 for ESX(i) 3.5 and a whole bunch of new patches! So what’s new? Windows Server 2008 support – Windows Server 2008 (Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter editions) is supported as a guest operating system. With VMware’s memory overcommit technology and the reliability of ESX, virtual machine density can [...]
Today there was a cool article released on the Storage Nuts & Bolts blog. It’s about file level recovery from within a VMDK based on an NFS datastore. NFS is just mentioned cause this is the preferred way to go for the NetApp family, but it doesn’t matter NFS or VMFS the solution they came up with works for the [...]
One of my readers just emailed me the following, again thanks for this info which might me useful to any of you guys out there playing with VCB: Today with the help of VMware Support I solved a strange problem. With all my Solaris10-32Bit VM’ s I was getting an error, when I tried to backup them via VCB. Creating [...]
During the VMware course DSA I discovered that it is in fact possible to dump specific vmdk’s with the use of the default VCB tools. While I was finding out a way to script this I was notified in one of my blogs by JTurver(Justin Turver) that he already wrote a script that could do what I was looking for. [...]
Before installing VCB and connecting the proxy host to the SAN you should disable automount via diskpart(cmd, diskpart, automount disable, automount scrub). When you don’t disable automount Windows will signature all “incoming” disks. When this happens the VMware hosts will not recognize the VMFS volumes anymore. But fortunately you can re-label the luns as VMFS. Check with “fdisk -lu” what [...]
