[OpenIndiana-discuss] vboxsvc and zvolrights

[Brian Hechinger]

On Oct 20, 2013, at 9:36, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> On 2013-10-20 12:50, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> scenario: blade server with blades running vmware hypervisors, gigabit
>> storage with openindiana zfs pool, 2nd storage (commodity level) as a
>> backup.
>> 
>> Is there a script similar to the one u cited on vbox that:
>> 
>> 1. Stops vmachine
>> 2. Starts snapshot
>> 3. Restarts vmachine when snapshot completed
>> 4. Starts rsync of snapshot with backup machine
> 
> I am not sure, did not program for VMWare - but I know there is an API
> for calling various actions. My colleagues use "Veem backup" for many
> data/VM backup scenarios - I can only suggest to look at that...
> 
> Sorry, got little personal experience with that...

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html

> 

There are toolkits provided by VMware both in perl and PowerShell. I think someone also wrote some python tools.

-brian