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 How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed? 
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Post How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed?
I have Intel Desktop Board DP965LT with Seagate 750 SATA HDD installed on ESXi 4.1. which is up and running.

4GB RAM and Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor.

Not yet on whitebox list

My worries if that hard drive would fail, how can I image or mirror that hard drive?

Planning to run at least 4 guest OS.

Hope you could help me

Thanks in advance!


Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:10 am
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Post Re: How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed?
Do you have any other physical hosts on the network that you could use for backup?

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Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:23 am
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Post Re: How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed?
yes, I have a RAID6 file / backup server. I can enable NFS there.


Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:02 pm
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Post Re: How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed?
If you enable NFS on that host you can then mount it as a datastore.

Take a look at this page for backup scripts - http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11965.

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Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:42 pm
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Post Re: How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed?
is this the script your reffering to vGhetto
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-12446
ghettoVCBg3

is the script to be run on Backup / File server?


Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:08 pm
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Post Re: How to protect Host if only one hard drive installed?
The script requires the vCLI which can be installed on Linux or Windows.

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Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:39 pm
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