Solaris VM Quiesce

[Shaun_Taylor]

I understand that virtual machines running Windows use VSS to quiesce the file system when doing backups, and that the SYMCquiesce utility can be installed on Linux VMs to do this. However, we also have VMs running Solaris. Is there a similar utility for Solaris or does the OS manage this?

[Nicolai · Accepted solution]

No - Symantec does not support to backup Solaris host via VMware. You need to deploy a agent inside the VM to backup it correctly.

See:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127089

See page 17 - Supported VMware guest operating systems

[Marianne]

See Supported VMware guest operating systems in http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH127089

As per Nicolai's post - no support for Solaris vm.

[Shaun_Taylor]

I thought this might be the case - thanks for the confirmation.