Inside VMware Consolidated Backup: Perspectives from the field - PAR303

Posted on September 10th, 2007 in breakout, dr, partner day, vcb, vmware, vmworld by Rich

Dan Anderson - Consulting Architect

Tim Myers - Senior Consultant

view from my seatThis is my third 2 hr sesion today. I had to get coffee and refuel. I’ve sat in the same seat in the same room since 10:15 …. except for lunch.

Dan Anderson is the drill sargeant of VCB. If you’ve attended one of his sessions you know what I mean. He should keep me awake.

:) VMConverter 3.01 can now be used to restore from VCB images - that is huge!! You can restore to ESX, VMServer, workstation. This is the first “ton of bricks” concept that has hit me this week. Makes the restore process for full VM backups much more feasible.

Notes and questions from session:

Virtual Lab Automation Technical Deep Dive and POC - PAR301

Posted on September 10th, 2007 in breakout, esx, lab manager, partner day, vmworld by Rich

Steven Kishi - Product Manager - VLA

What is VLA? Questions and notes from session

Shared VM library

  • stores vm configurations in state as a unit
  • uses a fraction of the storage normally required - 16 mb files called differencing disks
  • runs identical copies of vms simultaneously on the same network
  • leverages central pool of virtualization resources

Does VLA need VC2? - not today, but next version will use VC2

Rapid provisioning

  • deploy as needed
  • web based

transient configured infrastructure

VMware DR a proof of concept - PAR300

Posted on September 10th, 2007 in breakout, dr, partner day, vmware, vmworld by Rich

Session discussion questions: 

Replicate using EMC SRDF

manually change ip addresses of replicated machines?

Use F5, dynamic dns to self update or auto update ip addresses.

Host based replication

Replistor

Double take

Must have vm or host at both the primary and the secondary site for HBR. Must also pre-setup the networing, etc.

VMware is doing more with the SAN based relication

Site Recovery Manager will be able to interface with the replication product’s manager server