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 it “harder, better, faster, stronger”.
11/17/09 – The following enhancements and fixes have been implemented in this release of ghettoVCBg2. Special thanks goes out to Gerhard Ostermann for assisting with some of the logic in the ghettoVCBg2 script and the rest of the ghettoVCBg2 BETA testers. Thanks for everyones time and comments to make this script better!
Enhancements:
- Email log support
- Include/exclude specific VMDK(s)
- Additional logging + dry run mode
Fixes:
- Independent disk aware
- Large VMDK backups
Original script, but updated with new features and a bug fix:
11/17/09 – The following enhancements and fixes have been implemented in this release of ghettoVCB. Special thanks goes out to all the ghettoVCB BETA testers for providing time and their environments to test features/fixes of the new script!
Enhancements:
- Individual VM backup policy
- Include/exclude specific VMDK(s)
- Logging to file
- Timeout variables
- Configur snapshot memory/quiesce
- Adapter format
- Additional logging + dryrun mode
- Support for both physical/virtual RDMs
Fixes:
- Independent disk aware