Hi, does anyone have experience with implementing a VM backup solution that does not required downtime? I have about 50 VMs running over 4 servers which run Windows Server 2003 and VMWare Workstation 6.02 I have 9TB of iSCSI storage avilable to which I would like to backup each of the 4 My Virtual Machines folders on a weekly basis however backup software does not seems to like the locked files caused by the powered-on VMs. This seems to be similar to the manner in which databases lock files that are consistently being altered and I know there are backup solutions available for that. I know that pausing/shutting down etc.. using batch files has been done sucessfully but downtime for these VMs is really not an option.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
