Released yesterday, 4/5.
Download -
http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/
Release Notes -
http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/releasenotes_vcb102.html
From the release notes...
"VCB can now ignore any inactive paths to a SAN LUN. Previous releases of VCB required you to deactivate all inactive paths showing up on the VCB proxy or the backup process could fail. With VCB version 1.0.2, this step is no longer required."
Very cool indeed! Finally, I can have multipathing
Agreed!
What, a new release and no iSCSI Support.. Just Great..!!
It works, why would you want support
True, but customers want to know its supported by VMware..
To be honest ive all but given up with VCB, it breaks so often..
Its a better concept than product..
we just go with esxRanger..
To be honest ive all but given up with VCB, it breaks
so often..
I was at the same point a month ago. I dedicated a plethora of time trying to get that thing to work and got nothing but inconsistent backups. Drove me crazy!
Since then, I've found that the best way is to run the jobs at turtle speed...one job at a time. This sucks, but it works.
Its a better concept than product..
It has great potential, but needs a lot more dev/beta testing.
we just go with esxRanger..
same here. this was my rescue when vcb failed.
Well it is a 1.0.X product, but to be honest it rarely breaks for me or most people I have run across. It must be the fibRE you use compared to our fibER we use.
Is that like the tomato vs the tomAto?
I think I may need to upgrade to your fibER version....
From the release notes...
"VCB can now ignore any inactive paths to a SAN LUN.
Previous releases of VCB required you to deactivate
all inactive paths showing up on the VCB proxy or the
backup process could fail. With VCB version 1.0.2,
this step is no longer required."
In our VMWare configuration every ESX server has 2 paths to every LUN on the SAN (Clariion CX500) which permits fail-over.
Now the VCB proxy server can deal with multipathing - it just ignores the non-active path.
Please, could you confirm this.
Do we need to have identical LUNs ID on the SAN and on the proxy?
fibRE is correct. as in fibRE Channel
Queens English & all that.
From the release notes.
"VMware Consolidate Backup version 1.0.2 can now ignore any inactive paths to a SAN LUN and you do not need to disable inactive paths. However, VCB 1.0.2 still does not support multipathing[/b] and you cannot have Powerpath or any other multipathing software installed on your VCB proxy."
We have lots of FibRE in our Data CentRE.
MetREs and MetREs of it.
Lol, I love how the english say router, as in rooter.
It's accurate, you have to admit, kix.
I've known for a long time that my entire network is totally routed.