Re: VMware Consolidated Backup

The reason why I would not opt of VCB is though I can extract the files from VMFS the stores will be in inconsistent state and the log sequence will mismatch with current log set you have. So the stores will take you through several problems while mounting them.
Give it a try in your labs if you like. You must be having a some space to setup a Virtual machine for testing at least :)

Milind

"Vassilis Sotirchenas" <VassilisSotirchenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B906BB0E-8828-458F-A5A6-A89D8C5C4E13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i can understand the GUID/SID/etc issue.. this seems logical.

i was thinking more of the data where i could grab the stores from the vmfs
and then if required restore these to an exchange server.


is it true that there is no support for Exchange running on VMware ESX ?

"milind.naphade@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

VMWare consolidated backup is designed to backup the virtual machine files.
As far as I understand the VM consolidated backup wont do anything with
information store. Now, if you backup the VMs directly and try to restore
them the applications installed on these VMs may start functioning abnormal.
This is just because exchange still works with AD and AD relies compares the
object versions depending on the SIDs GUIDs and USNs. Imagine a scenario
where you made a change in permissions on your Exchange org level and
immediately you perform a full VM backup. Next time you need to restore the
same backup for some reason. How would AD tackle this situation?
Its good for SQL, Windows Based Oracle servers, file servers and Web Servers
but isn't a good solution for exchange boxes at all.

If VM backup can help you to recover anything inside the virtual hard disk
then you can definitely use it. But, as far as I understand this
functionality is available with ESX only (yet not sure)

Note: MS wont support any installation on VMWare.

Milind

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