This is one of the
biggest benefits of running over NFS, seeing your VMDK files with out having to
go through a block device is very handy.
Jeremy
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On
Behalf Of Leimann, Olaf
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009
8:04 AM
To: Skip Norman;
toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Mounting VMware
Volume Snapshot on Windows Host
That's happening because the VMWare LUN
does not have NTFS on there - you can't read VMFS from Windows.
The Disk will be visible in the Disk
management, though, so you can go ahead and destroy all data by partitioning
and reformatting it if you like ;-).
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From: Skip
Norman [mailto:snorman@alexza.com]
Sent: woensdag 8 juli 2009 1:30
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Mounting VMware Volume
Snapshot on Windows Host
I
have a windows 2003 server with Snapdrive 4.2.1 and I was wondering how I can
mount a snapshot of a volume that holds vmware luns. Is this possible? I was
told that this is feasible with VCB framework installed; however, I currently
receive an error: “unable to connect disk. Failure in connecting to the
virtual disk. Error: A timeout of 600 secs elapsed while waiting for the volume
arrival notification from the operating system”.
I
have verified that I can mount exchange volume snapshots for SMBR recovery on
this machine.
Also,
what are others here doing for image level backups of their VM’s? Are
there better/cheaper alternatives to VCB and SMVI? How is SMVI working out for
those of you out there using it?
Thanks.