Soldato
Okay I need my guest VM machine to see the host SCSI tape drive how do I do this? I see something about ISCSI but not sure how to set it up?
Virtual Server 2005 & SCSI
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Dangerous, what are you trying to backup in the VM? usually I have backup exec running on the host and then the guest vm's have the relavent backup exec agent, such as exchange, sql etc.. and the host does the nightly backup
Nothing I'm trying to do a restore but its too slow via networking.
This is for DR testing and the Host machine has server 2003 and Backup 11d
I'm using the Backup execs IDR but via networking is restoring about 90mb/min so I need the guest OS to see the host's tape drive.
This is for DR testing and the Host machine has server 2003 and Backup 11d
I'm using the Backup execs IDR but via networking is restoring about 90mb/min so I need the guest OS to see the host's tape drive.
I need that or some how to speed up the networking from Guest to Host - I'm using a gigabit network card but its running in 10MB it seems!
Soldato
Have you got the base OS installed on the VM are you doing a bare metal restore as the NIC drivers in VMs usually sort the network emulation out.
No OS on there yet I'm using IDR to restore it - It detects a intel GB network card though!
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Whats the spec of the box your running this on and what type/speed of tape drive do you have? as far as I know, you only get the right network speed with virtual server/vmware server is when you have installed their additions to the VM
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Have a read at the bottom of this post
http://www.aspdeveloper.net/Virtual...060_File_Copy_from_a_Virtual_Server_slow.aspx
Edit:
Have a read at the bottom of this post
http://www.aspdeveloper.net/Virtual...060_File_Copy_from_a_Virtual_Server_slow.aspx
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Backup Execs IDR is a load of *****!
Right whats the best way to get 6 production into VM state for DR reasons?
Right whats the best way to get 6 production into VM state for DR reasons?
Soldato
http://www.vizioncore.com/vRangerPro-P2VDR-Module.html
Doubletake for real time replication (can go physical to virtual they do a virtual machine license at reduced cost)
Doubletake for real time replication (can go physical to virtual they do a virtual machine license at reduced cost)
never ever ever use double take, I really dont like it, we used it on our servers and it was, at best, 6Gb out of sync, and never worked correctly, we now use 2 NAS boxes from NetApp and their replication software.
Stelly
Soldato
Bizzarely we use it for replicating file, exchange and SQL and it works perfectly, espically for failover. Also used Neverfail (asking for trouble in a product name if I ever saw one) and again that worked really well for Exchange failover.
The links we have between the systems are 1Gbps WAN.
The links we have between the systems are 1Gbps WAN.
Soldato
I'd second that, we had a third party sugest doubletake for exchange we chased them from the building and went with the two FAS solution instead.
Back on topic (slightly) ignore the speed your VM says the nic is running at in windows what ever it reports it will be running at the maximum physical speed of the hardware. The VM tools do install a newer driver which may improve speed but not significantly and will also result in all nics being reported at 1gb regarless of wether they are plugged into 10, 100 or 1gb conections.
As for your problem, I'd be tempted to either backup or image the servers to an external hard disk and then restore from that we used images for DR testing in my old place of employment.
Soldato
Does VS2005 not allow you to 'mount' physical drives to the VM?
Nope you need some other software but havent got it as of yet!
Soldato
Daft question, have you tried VMware server? Its free and is a heck of a lot better than VS2005 ever was.