vmware consolidated backup and local storage

[adelatorre]

The White Paper "Understanding VMware Consolidated Backup" does not address or

explain the scenario of backing up a VM which is stored on local storage.

At the bottom of this page http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/cb_features.html

It states:

iSCSI, NAS, or local storage support. Protect a virtualized environment that

utilizes any type of storage

Can you please explain how the backup proxy server accesses the local storage

for image backup of the vm's on an ESXi host?

Thank you.

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[celak]

Hi adelatorre,

You are right, in that page, there is not much explanation.

You can only see the drawing in the "Overview" tab. This is the "SHARED STORAGE" option of the VCB.

Another option of the VCB is local DATA STORE to LOCAL FILESYSTEM.

If you have a LOCAL DATASTORE and enough free space for your backups in other filesystem (say /home/MyBackups), you can use "vcbMounter" without a VCB PROXY.

Connect directly your ESX Server host,

Edit /etc/vmware/backuptools.conf (according to latest VM Backup guide : http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_vm_backup.pdf)

And issua a command like this :

vcbMounter -a name:YOUR_VM_NAME -r /home/MyBackups

See alo my other resolution : http://communities.vmware.com/message/855099#855099

Good luck.