Small ESXi San

[barrycuda72]

I have a small SAN setup 2 servers with san attached disk.

I want to run ESXi on both of the servers (ESX 3.5 NOT an option at this point) with the san disk formated as VMFS.

is there a way to backup the Vmware guests as a complete image? I can load individual agents to back each up but restoring a complete image sometimes is just faster.

I was hoping to perform a snapshot backup the main file then delete the snapshot. Consolidated backup is not an option either.

Could I somehow have the ESXi box NFS mount up disk outside of the san then script it to copy the image files to the mounted location?

Thanks

[Dave_Mishchenko]

Take a look at William's scripts - http://communities.vmware.com//people/lamw

The scripts will take a snapshot on the VMs and run a complete backup of the VMDK files for the VM. You can mount an NFS share as a datastore within ESXi and use that as your backup destination. You could then also run the VMs from that share if you needed to.

[barrycuda72]

In looking at the scripts it would appear that this will do the job. Thanks