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VMware and VSS - Application Backup and Recovey whitepaper from Veeam Software
Veeam Software has just released an interesting whitepaper about application backup and recovery using different disaster recovery solutions. One of the new features in VMware Consolidated Backup 1.5 (from the VI 3.5 Update 2) is support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).
Using VSS along with an image‐level backup of virtual machines (VM) running supported applications allows you to create a transactionally consistent backup image. With such a backup image, you can successfully recover both the VM, and any supported application installed on the VM.
This is very interesting and along time awaited feature. One important thing to notice is that to enable the VSS feature - VMware Tools also needs to be updated and in VMware Tools on each VM you have to enable the VSS support:
- In the VMware Tools installer, select Modify > Drivers > VSS.
- Complete the installation process.
- Restart the virtual machine to make sure VSS components are installed and running.
To read the full whitepaper from Veeam Software click here
Veeam Software has also posted a video testimonial that supports this paper. It’s available at their corporate blog
Remember any time you implement new features to test the implementation thoroughly in a LAB environment if possible.
Feel free to leave a comment. Thanks in advance. Regards Heino.