Using Ghost to image an ESXi server
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 4 comments
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I have a requirement to produce a gold disk of an ESXi server and am trying to find out if Ghost will do the job.
The physical server is a Fujitsu RX200 S5 with 1TB of disk space
The OS is ESXi v4 and it is hosting 3 virtual servers (all win 2003)
What I need to be able to do is take an image/snapshot of the host server containing the VM's, ideally on one or more DVD's so it can be restored to the imaged state by a non technical person!
Can anyone confirm that GSS 2.5 will enable me to do this
Thanks in advance
Trevor
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ESXi V4
What file system is ESXi running on?
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File System
The file system used is VMFS
Ghost can create an image
Ghost can create an image directly to a CD / DVD set. However GSS 2.5 does not directly support the VMFS filesystem.
Because VMFS is not directly supported, ghost will fallback to taking an image of every sector on the disk ('image all') - rather than ghosts normal behavior of just capturing data from sectors currently in use.
Thank you for that Robert, I
Thank you for that Robert, I take it that means if I have 1Tb of disk then the Image will be 1Tb in size regardless of how much of it I have used.
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