fenschmeister Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 With the recent episode on ESXi 4 (free) this has got me thinking about converting one of our utility servers (currently hosting VMWare Server 2.0) to ESXi. The problem is that my company is running a M$ shop with BackupExec. Funds are limited right now, so purchasing the Virtual Center and BackupExec Agent License is out of the question. W What are my other options...free options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 29, 2009 Share Posted June 29, 2009 http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 GhettoVCB.sh You can setup NFS on Server 2003 quite easily using Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 and Server 2008 supports NFS out of the box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decepticon_eazy_e Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 GhettoVCB.sh You can setup NFS on Server 2003 quite easily using Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 and Server 2008 supports NFS out of the box. If it's not a production box, just shut down the VM, copy the VMDK files (and everything else in the directory). You get a full backup pretty easy, should be easy to script that. Of course this only works if you can shut down the VMs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhostbudd Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 Well, if you have more than one box just use freenas + esxi and you should be able to back up the data. Just use zfs and do disk snapshots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted June 30, 2009 Share Posted June 30, 2009 If your in a similar position to myself then as a Wintel shop deploying linux just isn't an option (management approval etc), even in the case of Openfiller which does actually proper, paid for support. This script I provided does handle snapshots and powering machines on/off so I would recommend playing with it before opting for a manual snapshot approach. Its designed for use with DAS rather than NAS or SAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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