Power Off VM in VMware before VMware backup
Guys, I have several linux VMs that are appliances. We cannot install agents on them as they are vendor locked and the only supported backup method we have is to power them off and run a vmware bac...
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Hi,
I did work on some projects that customers has uses some blackbox linux appliance systems and scheduled VM causes those systems to crash. I have checked that natively even doing snapshots via vCenter also cause the same issue therefore able to eliminiate that NetBackup causing the issues. Customers also have checked with their principle vendors on doing snapshot compatibility and vendors did replied as well as mentioned it is unsupported. Customers have mutually agreed to exclude these machines from backup.
As per suggested by Nicolai, check with principle vendors on compatibility on doing snapshots backup as well as the native way of restoring those systems.
