xfs filesystem in vmware virtual machine

Hi Mark,

thanks for the quick response. I also guessing that is unsupported now. I am waiting at least any patch to enhance this feature.

Dhananjaya

Can you try to install netbackup client to the clients,backup the file system as normal files.

Hi Huanglao,

Yea. I belived that is  my last option. By the way I belived in that method backup data travel via LAN which is more slow than SAN. 

Any suggstions for that.

It would need to be a SAN Client which may be difficult or impracticable in a VMWare environment

I am afraid a standard cleint backup is your last option - of course if you use de-dupe you could try accelerator backups to speed things up

Thanks Mark..

Yes, I am planning configure it as normal file system backup using netbackup client tool. By the way could plase give me some hints regaring de-dupe in VmWare environment

Thanks.

I was referring to using accelerator with the standard client (so not directly interfacing with VMWare) which can make a huge speed difference for backups.

When 7.6 comes out we will also get VMWare accelerator - but that may still not solve your xfs issue unless 7.6 supports it (haven't read the full notes on the Beta yet!)

Thanks Mark, 

I will look the possibility of  implement accelerator feature as standard client ( hope it will not affect by xfs filesystem again ) . At least if 7.6  supprt xfs file system restore through vmware, that will be grate for me :-)