Re: VMWare question - need advice

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From: Dodger (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 17:51:00 -0700

As you indicate, there is more than one way to skin a
cat. I have had very little success with restoring a
Windows Server using NTbackup. I work in a small shop,
and this is all the owner can afford. I use VMware
Workstation every day, but only in a test environment.
It works great for all types of scenarios, but I have
never tried it in a production environment. I am leaning
toward using Ghost to create an image I can store
offsite. Do you know if the regular version of Ghost
2003 would work on a server? Does the ASR backup work
well? I have created one, but never tried to restore a
server with it.

Thanks!

>-----Original Message-----
>VMWare Workstation is not designed to fulfill the
scenario you describe.
>
>Yes, it is possible to run a full SBS, maybe even in a
production
>environment, as a virtual machine. I can even sortta see
how this might be
>implemented,,, I'd probably see it running on a 2nd DC
W2K3 server.
>
>I believe that VMWare ESX Server would be a more
suitable host for SBS but
>this would only start to make sense if you were looking
at purchasing a high
>end server to support SBS and at least one other server
(maybe a TS), or
>more likely a couple of extra servers.
>
>But then, I believe you are barking up the wrong tree to
start with. Want
>'bulletproof' recovery? When you buy your server you buy
another one,
>identical hardware, and put it back in the boxes (after
a burn in test) then
>put it in a bank vault. This would (almost) ensure
disaster recovery.
>
>But more realistically, how about the 'almost
bulletproof' method. Regular
>backups, possibly additional system images (ghost, v2i,
true image, whatever
>works), something people don't mention much (probably
because it's not in
>the 'To-Do List', which it should be) is doing an ASR
backup.
>
>"Dodger" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:3f5201c42b20$994b4010$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Has anyone successfully used VMWare to run a production
>> SBS 2003 installation?
>>
>> If so, how much extra memory etc?
>>
>> Any gotchas?
>>
>> I am looking for a bulletproof way to perform disaster
>> recovery on the server.
>
>
>.
>

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