Cisco BE6000 UCS C220M3 and backing up Virtual machines

[Atul Pawar]

Hi,

  I need to backup all Virtual machines (Pub,Sub,CUPS,CUC) hosted on two UCS servers before implementing a major change.  Is there a documented and TAC supported method ? All VMs are managed though a vSphere client and they are not in vCentre. I need to do this as part of my rollback plan, in case we hit any issues. 

Thanks,
Atul

[Aman Soi]

Hi Atul,

I suppose u need to take the backup of applications individually.

I was looking through Docwiki which has VMWare Consolidated Backup which says

This feature provides integration with 3rd-party backup utilities so that they can non-disruptively backup the OS and application in a Virtual Machine (VM).

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements#VMware_Consolidated_Backup_.28VCB.29

If someone has more ideas , please share.

regds,

aman

[Jaime Valencia]

DRS for all those apps, or copy

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Unified_Communications_VMware_Requirements#Copy_Virtual_Machine