I like virtualization and have been using vmware server for several years now.\u00a0 There is something called vmware esxi which is free and a lot better and managing resources. Vmware server is good in that it runs on top of an operating system.\u00a0 In my case Linux.\u00a0 I use the Linux tools of LVM, snapshots and software RAID to prevent data loss on the virtual machines in case of disk failure.<\/p>\n
ESXi is its own OS, it has strict hardware requirements and will not do software raid or snapshots.\u00a0 Although I do run production VM’s on ESXi, I treat the VM’s like physical machines and back them up the same way.<\/p>\n
I have found a way to back them up using snapshots using the tools built into ESXi<\/p>\n
Here are the commands I used to back up a VM to an NFS mount<\/p>\n
\r\ncp \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/myvm\/*.vmx* \/vmfs\/volumes\/nfs\/myvm\/\r\nvim-cmd vmsvc\/snapshot.create \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/myvm\/myvm.vmx backup \\\r\n\"Temp Backup Created for copying\" quiesced\r\nvmkfstools -d thin -i \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/myvm\/myvm.vmdk \\\r\n\/vmfs\/volumes\/nfs\/myvm\/myvm.vmdk\r\nvim-cmd vmsvc\/snapshot.remove \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/myvm\/myvm.vmx backup\r\n<\/pre>\nStill feeling sick and I think this is a relapse, will go to bed early.\u00a0 Got so much work to do.\u00a0 I really should get some sleep though.<\/p>\n
Just doing pushups and situps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I like virtualization and have been using vmware server for several years now.\u00a0 There is something called vmware esxi which is free and a lot better and managing resources. Vmware server is good in that it runs on top of … Continue reading