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mrnick1234567
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VDR setting of heartbeat alarms and interrupting 'sensitive' VMs

Hello,

I have setup VDR to backup the 60 or so RHEL 5 and 6 VM's we have on our vmware cluster (Dell R610s with Isilon storage mounted over NFS)

One thing I've noticed is when a VM's backup is nearly complete, 90% of the time we get heartbeat alarm - either flagging intermittent or no heartbeat.

These alarms always coincide with VDR removing the snapshot, I.e. in VDR the logs it lists for the VM: Removed Snapshot "_datarecovery_"

We also use OpenNMS and this often flags the machines as being down and on some VM's sensitive services fall over.

Is there anything that I can do to mitigate this effect?

Thanks

Nick

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