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ESXi Host backup including extra vibs
I have a licensed ESXI Host with a couple of extra vibs (Chelsio, NVidia, dell) installed. I also have vcenter standard. More that I like to I discover that I have to reinstall the host, e.g. VMware ...
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Active Backup for Business external VM
I am currently playing around with "Active Backup for Business" and an esxi Hypervisor hosted EXTERNALLY by "Hetzner", a Cloud provider.
My goal is that when one of my servers fail ...
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VMware clone as backup
Having a couple of ESXi and a vCenter 6.5. I'd like to backup some of the production VMs i.e. have a "photo" of a known working state with all programs installed and configured for the ...
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SQL Server fails over while vmware virtual machine backup
Recently we moved clustered SQL Server 2017 running on Windows Server 2016 from physical to VMWare, since then everyday it started failing over at same time. No Error in SQL Server logs but Windows ...
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Veeam unexpected "health check" for backup copy job
In Veeam we have a backup copy job for creating offsite backups on usb disks.
Now I see that Veeam performs a health check on the usb disk.
I can't find any possibility to configure health check for ...
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How to make backup of VMWare ESXi host from Centos 7 using the ISCSI target?
I have the VMware ESXi 6.7 free version as the iSCSI initiator and the iSCSI target with CentOS 7 64bit. All of VMs installed in the iSCSI datastore. Is there any way to sync or copy the file from the ...
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ESXi 6.7 VMWare Backup to External USB Drive
Using VMWare ESXi 6.7.0 with Essentials licensing, I would like to backup my VMs to a plugged External HD. Previously we did it with Veeam because we were using a Windows Server, but now with their ...
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ESXi config recovery
I have an HP Microserver running ESXi 6.5 from a USB stick. A series of power outages seems to have caused some corruption, preventing ESXi from booting (pink screen, unable to load kernel modules).
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VMware ESXI Change Block Tracking record
I wanted to know if anyone could answer where the change block tracking record is kept as I have a VMware ESXI and backup virtual machines. I ask because I have backup software doing local incremental ...
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Is it possible to format a drive from a windows virtual machine on ESXi?
I'm trying to backup data residing on virtual machines on an ESXi host.
What I would like to do is plug a 6TB SATA drive into the motherboard, then format it as NTFS, then backup data residing inside ...
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P2V with a single-server domain controller
I have a small domain in my office (7 PCs) with a single DC installed physically, on a desktop running Windows Server 2012R2. All the components in the domain have static IPs - both the DC and the PCs....
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Is installing NRPE on an ESXi for monitoring purpose a good idea?
I am using Centreon to monitore our VMs.
I've also VM backups done on the ESXi (5.5.0) with ghettoVCB and sent to a NAS mounted on NFS.
Now I would like to monitore those backups with a home made ...
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How to backup file storage NAS through VM-based backup solutions
We have a need to backup both VMs (at the hypervisor level), and a large NAS used for file storage. We are a charity, and have 6 sockets to manage, and so the options that seem to have both VM and ...
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How to avoid VMware stunning a client during imaging with Veeam
Recently our MySQL server has been "going away" (ie. the client connection drops out). After weeks of trying different things (like adjusting packet size), we've discovered that it's our Veeam imaging ...
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Remove all Snapshots Stuck at 25% for the past 14 hours ESXi 5.1
I have an ESXi 5.1 host server with a Server 2012 VM server which I am monitoring remotely that hosts the email application Domino. I was using a third party VM backup software called Iperius which I ...
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Backup CentOS VM on Remote Server without snapshots
I have a VM with CentOS Server installed, which is for Email and Web Services, on a free esxi. The entire esxi has 2 TB usable and the CentOS server has 1.5 TB provisioned. Another CentOS VM that runs ...
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RHEL6.1 VM machines frozen when a quiesced snapshot is created for backup purpose
My RHEL 6.1 virtual machines running on ESXi hosts 5.1.0 get frozen when the backup procedure tries to get a quiesced snapshot. I have to reset the virtual machines from VMware console. The tool used ...
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Veeam Backup failing. Cannot create a shadow copy of the volumes containing writers data
We have a Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 VMWare VM that is failing Veeam backups with the following error:
Failed to prepare guest for hot backup. Error: VSSControl: 1 Backup job failed. Cannot create a ...
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How to restore a guest Windows 2012 R2 VM installation/backup from VMWare to OpenStack?
I have a VMWare VM with Windows 2012 R2 installed in DC#1. The machine has terminal services set up with user accounts and permissions, lots of software installed and bunch of things configured that ...
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VMWare ESXi 5 - Backup configuration
I have an ESXi 5 which I will format the OS. Since I have a lot of configuration on it I want to backup the configuration.
VMWare suggest this method.
Anyone can confirm that this will work?
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How to mount host's VMFS datastore from a guest?
I'm trying to backup VMs using a CentOS 6.5 VM and a tape library, the tape library is connected via SAS pass-through and it mounts on CentOS. The backup will be done copying the entire VM folder on ...
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Will a Veeam 8 Snapshot Backup be be unable to restore my non-quiescable file-based databases if someone is logged in to them at the time?
We have some very old file-based databases (multi-user, but not Server-based) that are running on some VMs on an VMWare ESXi.
Setup
HyperVisor
The ESXi is running ESXi version 5.1.0
Virtual ...
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Does 'vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create' create a functional backup of the guest?
If I create a snapshot with: 'vim-cmd vmsvc/snapshot.create' I can then transfer the file that creates to another system, or even to another vmware ESXi system.
Setting aside the fact that ...
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Why don't people just use rsync to back up vmware guests?
If I am running a modern vmware ESXi system, I can drop in a statically linked rsync binary and rsync files to any destination over SSH.
I'm trying to understand why most (all ?) backup of vmware ...
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ESXi alerts to consolidate but there were no snapshots taken
I recently came a cross a disk failure on our server and got the disk replaced. Due to this disk failure there were certain issues which raised and now its going up and down. What my problem is that, ...
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changing iSCSI block storage backup solutions, does CBT need to be reset?
VMware vSphere 5.1, iSCSI block storage, old backup solution uses Changed Block Tracking (CBT) for incremental backups. New backup solution also uses Changed Block Tracking (CBT), but the current CBT ...
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What directories to backup on ESXi apart from the VMs?
I know how to backup the VMs in the datastore, but what about the ESXi config?
In case of a disaster recovery (like fire and such) which directories should I backup off-site to be able to restore an ...
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What kind of possibility do I have to backup my Domain Controller 2012R2?
I have an ESXi (5.5) environment. There are two redundant domain controller(Active Directory, WINS, DNS, DHCP). What kind of possibility do I have to backup these domain controller without stopping ...
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Backup ESXi VM but not every hard disc
I have VMware Essentials ESXi 5.5.
I have two hosts. Host 1 has two VMs, a DC and a file/DB server. Host 2 has a DC and some other test VMs.
I'm looking at disaster recovery options for this file ...
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Which is the safest way to back up and upgrade?
We are having VMware ESXi 4.1 and we need to move to ESXi 5.1 or ESXi 5.5.
Before upgrade some of our team members advised us to take a backup of VMs.
Now the problem is we don't have SAN or Net ...
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Amazon EC2 VM Import Connector Backup Strategies
I'm trying to get information on this connector but most of what i'm finding seems to be rather old info. My ultimate goal is to have my production virtual machines (esx 5.1) backed up to EC2 servers ...
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2950 internal backup SATA drive
We have a Dell 2950 II with 4 76GB drives in a RAID 10 configuration, running ESXi and 5 virtual machines. The RAID controller is Perc5/i. There is a low transaction rate, so this gives us minimal ...
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Veeam backup of VMware ESXi VM's - is it a snapshot backup?
We run VMWare ESXi 5 and are looking at backup solutions. We found Veeam backup free edition and thought we would try it.
At the start of the backup wizard, there is an option to disable "quiescing ...
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How to do VMWare Backups
Im looking for some software that can regularly backup (eg. nightly) of all the virtual machines on an ESXi server? Or can I just run normal backup software from the running virtual machine?
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CBT Soap Fault from VMWare when runnnig Veeam backup
We frequently see errors like this in our backup jobs:
10/05/2013 12:21:18 :: Cannot use CBT: Soap fault. Error caused by file /vmfs/volumes/781f6afc-ea228458/VDED-CIT-010(Exchange EX01)/VDED-CIT-010(...
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Moving system from ESXi to Hyper-V
I have a problem with moving a system from ESXi to Hyper-V.
The system on ESXi has got 100GB allocated space on HDD. The system is made from an image file(size about 6GB). The machine hosting Hyper-...
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ghettoVCB not backing up ESXi 5.0 VMs
I use ghettoVCB to backup my VMs to a NFS share. When I try and run the script on one of my VMs it fails with the error "Snapshot found for ServerName, backup will not take place!"
The thing is there ...
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Snapshot copy a VM to USB attached to ESXi 5.1 host
I was trying to script a snapshot backup of running VMs to a USB drive attached to the host. We are using the free hypervisor version of ESXi and do not want to purchase 3rd party products to do this.
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Issues with API in free version of VMware ESXi 5.0
We are using Linux box on Esxi 5.0 server to take VMDK backups of all windows servers on that EXSi 5.0; we are using VMware native API to do that; but after the trail period of 60 days, these API's ...
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Veeam backup iSCSI drive
We have an ESXi virtual machine currently being backed up using Veeam B&R 6.5.
The virtual server itself has an ISCSI drive attached (Windows iSCSI Initiator), but it is not included within the ...
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ghettoVCB: ERROR: Unable to backup MACHINE-NAME due to error in VMDK backup
I'm on VMware ESXI 5.0.0 Update 1 and wanted to use the ghettoVCB script for backuping my VMs.
The dryrun went perfectly fine:
2012-10-24 11:47:46 -- info: ###### Final status: OK, only a dryrun. ###...
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ESXi disaster recovery plan
I have a Vmware infrastructure where I am using the free version of Esxi 5 . I cannot as a result use vmotion and the other cool features that come with a paid ESXI. I am using snapshots for the ...
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How to export a VMware ESXi 5 VM into a file to restore it later?
As I've bought a server it had a RAID controlleer which was not supported by VMWare ESXi 5, so I had to install it in a bare non-RAID configuration. Now as I've bought a supported RAID controller I am ...
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Virtualization for hardware resiliency?
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to pool several physical servers to run a resilient virtualization environment. Our servers are getting more and more critical to our clients and we want to do ...
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Is it a bad idea to do an OVF Export of a VM with snapshot data?
I'm currently using a VM running on ESXi 5.0 to dry-run installation procedures for a software product. We're trying a whole different bunch of things, so I'm making extensive use of snapshots to save ...
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VM Backups - Externalizing extra large VMware backups
I have a couple of VMware ESXi hosts with a couple of VMs on each hosts. The total amount of size of all these VMs are in the order of the TBs.
I want to make backups of these VMs. But here is not ...
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Consistency of virtual machine backups using ghettoVCB
I have a ESXi host with both Windows and CentOS virtual machines running.
A couple of them are running SQL Databases (MSSQL and MySQL).
I am trying to setup a backup strategy using the ghettoVCB ...
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how to deal with backup & restore of private cloud environment?
using Cloudstack OSS - with NFS as storage backend....
How to deal with VM image backup and restore? snapshot backup is preferred
softwares like PHD Virtual are built for specific Hypervisor: ...
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Backing up ESXi VM to an external (USB) disk
Does anyone know of a method to reliably back up ESXi 5 VM's (no vCenter) to an external USB disk (or a USB disk on another server)? If so, please share!
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Virtual Machine Backup ESXI 5
Is it safe to backup data from a virtual machine to a datastore on another drive within the same server? I only have one server currently running vmware, so I would prefer to be able to backup to a ...
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