Hi, Anyone have experience when snapshot enable that time there is some intemittent up down on the MS Exchange?
Mak sure the sync driver and VSS providers have been installed with VMware Tools (for version below 4). It is not installed by default on below 4 version.
If it's a busy transactional systems, like SQL, Exchange and Domain Controllers you should never use a snapshot based backup. Agent based is the way to go.
For image level recovery remove sync and VSS providers and take a crash consistent backup. Recovery would be crash consistent backup + latest data from agent.
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Hi, Which mean I got to re-install the vmware tools and remove the sync option in order for me to solve the snapshot cause my Exchange services issue right? But again I have to restore my data from the agent backup to fully recover my Exchange right?
Yes, agent based restoration. under vmware tools installation go to modify and remove those un-needed vss and sync drivers.
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See also:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/5962168
Andre