Hello All,
In my companies plans to get to vSphere 4, we are upgrading out SAN as a first step. We currently have an EMC CX3-20f SAN. We plan to convert it to a CX4-240. Now EMC says this is fairly safe, and I believe them, but I still want a complete backup of all my vm's first. This is non production stuff, and currently backups only occur via scripts that tar to ssh and go offsite on certain directories.
I plan on dropping in a 8TB Sun box (x4500) and mount lots of NFS storage.
Can anyone point me to something that will allow me to backup the entire vm to the NFS datastores? I know I could shutdown the vm, and do a copy, but I'm hoping there is a better way. I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I'm getting back in the swing with ESX.
