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  • 1.  Backup of MSCS running on vmware

    Posted Aug 07, 2009 09:29 AM

    Hi all.

    Our DBA is setting up a MS Cluster (SQL) on 2 ESX hosts.

    Is it possible to do a backup of these VM's?

    When I try (using Veeam) I get an error saying that I cannot snapshot the macjine because of bus haring on one of the controllers.

    Regards

    Kristian Aasen



  • 2.  RE: Backup of MSCS running on vmware

    Posted Aug 07, 2009 02:10 PM

    That would be correct. You cannot snapshot nodes in a cluster.

    For backup, you will need to use the regular backup agents as you would if the cluster was physical.

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    Jason Silva

    blog: http://silvaecs.com



  • 3.  RE: Backup of MSCS running on vmware

    Posted Aug 08, 2009 06:59 AM

    The snapshot problem is one of the great limitation of a application cluster environment.

    For cluster shared LUNs the only way is use traditional backup or storage snapshot (or similar feature).

    For cluster node backup (for example to make a full C: backup) you can build a script that move the cluster resources, power-off the node, make a copy of the first vmdk, and then power-on again the node.

    Andre