I received a reponse from IBM on the problem I am having with the VCB using the SAN method.
"^we do NOT support anything involving VMWare VCB backup. It is^
^entirely a VMWare configuration and although it is documented in the^
^redbook, we do not provide support for VMWare consolidated backup. This is^
^a VMWare to Windows backup, not System i. There is a problem with the^
^documentation in regards to saving multiple servers which requires some^
^extra configuration (which is a different topic altogether), but it is^
^still not really our issue."^
So I'll just have to figure this out on my own
And that's exactly what I plan to do! Our new Power 520 just arrived, and we're probably putting it in this weekend. So what I'm going to do is brush up on my skills. I'm going to rebuild my ESX Hosts from scratch! I have an old x346 Stand alone server (it was the old ESX host) and I'm going to build that up again, move all the VM's over, and after we get the new CEC in, I will rebuild. I'm going to have 2 HBA's in the System i now, so I'm going to do multi-pathing on everything right from the beginning. And once I get it all up and running like that, I will move the VM's back over.It will be good practice, and hopefully I won't have any problems with the VCB part this time. And as I'm writing this, I'm already having doubts that I will be able to do it, after all, it is my production environment at work that I'm dealing with here
Wish me luck!
