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vcb Management Console 1.0.6 Beta

Posted by athlon_crazy on Apr 25, 2009 6:39:53 PM

I've learn from my bad experienced and now just realized why I need to backup my virtual machines when one of my Datastore on SATA disk was corrupted and end up, I need to do 10x virtual machines reinstallation. Imagine when you lost few website, database, email & etc. How bout all the hard work plus 7 days downtime, it's really a disaster to me. Doesn't matter which backup method I choosed, as long I have it, I could do virtual machine restoration and bring up everything within one hour. 

 

So the question is, which backup method is suit with my current home setup? I have no SAN, fiber channel, no tape drive and every connection rely on my LAN with 100Mb speed. But, once I try vmware consolidated backup within my current environment and found out vcb works flawlessly with acceptable speed, I decided to use and make it more user friendly with less error prone by develop GUI tools (vcbMC)which can backup all my virtual machines to my temporary stagingDisk.

 

vcbMC is just a frontend for vmware consolidated backup tool and windows AT command. Meaning, I can backup all virtual machines with vcbMC manually, browse vm's by name, register new vm's and finally do weekly backup automatically. I don't need to remember all the vcb commands such as vcbVmName.exe, vcbMounter.exe and all necessary parameters during the backup since vcbMC will do it for me.

 

VCB Management Console (vcbMC-1.0.6) Beta1

 

REQUIREMENT

vcb-1.0.5

vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta (Download)

Windows Server 2003

CMD.exe

Windows Task Scheduler

 

Complete How-To vcbMC (Here)

 

 

 

 

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Mar 25, 2009 7:25 AM coolhandluq coolhandluq    says:

This looks pretty good AC.  I'll try it out and let you know how it works out for me.

Mar 25, 2009 2:33 PM Jean-Charles Jean-Charles    says:

Thank you for your tool, i'll give it a try... if someone else wants to, i uploaded your file to a mirror :

http://dl.free.fr/rWqYAclxB

 

Cheers,

Mar 26, 2009 6:42 AM athlon_crazy athlon_crazy    says in response to coolhandluq:

Appreciate if you could give a feedback once you tested it

 

System Engineer

Zen Systems Sdn Bhd

Malaysia

www.no-x.org

Mar 26, 2009 6:43 AM athlon_crazy athlon_crazy    says in response to Jean-Charles:

Thanks Jean! Really appreciate it..

 

 

 

System Engineer

Zen Systems Sdn Bhd

Malaysia

www.no-x.org

Mar 30, 2009 6:35 AM sb1623 sb1623    says:

Hello Athlon_crazy.

 

Could you please, give me a bit more information about this management console.

What do I have to do to configure it?

ESX IP : Ip address  of one of my ESX

Username : user on my ESX (for example root)

Source : ???

 

Best regards

Sébastien BRANDY

Mar 30, 2009 7:58 AM athlon_crazy athlon_crazy    says in response to sb1623:

A. what u hav to configure?

 

REMINDER

1) vcb-1.5.0

Should go under default directory (c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framwork)

 

2) vcbMC-1.0.6 beta

a)Make sure to copy below files to vcb default directory (c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framwork)

If the installation doesn't copy to the vcb folder it automatically.

-browser_log

-vm.txt

-job.txt

 

3) cmd.exe

Change default startup directory for cmd.exe from "c:\windows\system32" to "c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framwork)"

 

     

  • Go to regedit

     

  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

     

  • Software

     

  • Microsoft

     

  • Command Processor

 

 

Double click "AutoRun" & please key-in "CD /D C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Consolidated Backup Framework"

 

B.What source can be used?

Use this when you Browse VM --> source: any

Use this for manual/auto backup --> source: name

 

 

 

System Engineer

Zen Systems Sdn Bhd

Malaysia

May 20, 2009 7:55 AM malaysiavm malaysiavm    says in response to athlon_crazy:

you should try the data recovery virtual appliance, simplify interface and consider powerful

 

 

Craig

 

vExpert 2009

Malaysia VMware Communities - http://www.malaysiavm.com

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