Hillel wrote:
Hello, I am just starting to experiment with xVM Server after playing with VMWare for a little while. I am working in a small shop that is considering virtualizing just a handful of older machines including a couple Windows servers.
xVM Server, or the xVM hypervisor on OpenSolaris? i.e. are you using a bui, or xm/virsh
Is there a good way to backup the guest VMs in xVM?
are you using zvols? if so you can snapshot then and zfs send.. if vdisks, you can vdiskadm snapshot them and copy...
Is there the ability from the dom0 to tell guests that they being
> backed up, such as telling the VSS Writer on a Windows guest to > quiesce the system state or to use NTBackup to save the system state first? Not currently.
Is there a way to back up guest VMs so that they can have complete
> disaster recovery and also a file level restore for the "Oops, I > deleted a file" situations? You can snapshot disks, restore snapshots, etc... (man zfs, man vdiskadm) For file level, that is more of a guest side operation. MRJ _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
