Colocation to Virtualization

Lately there has been problems with the VCB backup software that I am using.  Unfortunately, troubleshooting it is not “cut and dry”.  There is the main application that has to be installed, its proprietary VCB plugun, on top of VCB plugin from VMware.  Below will go through using vcbmounter to test VCB through VMwares interface. First, you have to be running Virtual Center, license VCB, and and install the VCB plugin from VMware for this to work.  The path to vcbmounter.exe is the default install location.

Command structure utilizing the VM name as source
vcbmounter -h <virtual center server> -u <username> -p <password> -a name:<name of vm> -r <path to store the files> -t fullvm -m san

Use vcbmounter to pull down a full backup of a VM.
C:Program FilesVMwareVMware Consolidated Backup Framework>vcbmounter -h viServer.x.com -u vcb -p vcbuserPass -a name:TestVM -r Z:vcprepotestTestVM -t fullvm -m san

Copying “[NetApp] TestVM//vmware-938.log”:
0%=====================50%=====================100%
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Copying “[NetApp] TestVM//vmware-940.log”:
0%=====================50%=====================100%
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Copying “[NetApp] TestVM//vmware-942.log”:
0%=====================50%=====================100%
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Copying “[NetApp] TestVM//vmware.log”:
0%=====================50%=====================100%
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[2008-11-12 15:53:34.093 'BaseLibs' 3100 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Subject mismatch: VMware vs viServer.x.com
[2008-11-12 15:53:41.730 'BaseLibs' 3100 warning] SSLVerifyIsEnabled: failed to read registry value. Assuming verification is disabled. LastError = 0
[2008-11-12 15:53:41.730 'BaseLibs' 3100 warning] SSLVerifyCertAgainstSystemStore: Certificate verification is disabled, so connection will proceed de
spite the error
Converting “Z:vcprepotestTestVMscsi0-0-0-TestVM.vmdk” (compact file):
0%=====================50%=====================100%
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Above is the truncated output of the command.  It rambled on for about two pages.  In this example, VCB is pulling down a full backup of the VM.  TestVM storage is connected via ISCSI on a NetApp.  Vcbmounter works fine on our VMs whose storage is on an EMC.  Z: data store is actually a mapped drive connected to an ISCSI point.

Below is an image showing the files that were created from vcbmounter.exe

vcbmounter files

Note:  Pasting in the information above messed up the alignments of the *s, the transfers were actually 100% complete.