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storage presented to vmPRO
I am currently demoing vmpro and I understand that some features are not included in the free edition. For example, being able to retrieve actual files from the operating system of the VM. Inside the console of the vmpro instance, how can you see stats of your storage like the capacity of my nfs storage and how much is being used?
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Permalink Reply by Mark Thacker on
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Hi Josh,
Actually, what makes vmPRO Standard Edition different than our competitor's 'free' offerings is that we include ALL features in the product. We just limit the capacity to 1TB of protected data (which has nothing to do with how much space it takes up on your destination).
To see your individual files within a backup, simply point your Internet Explorer or Linux file browser to the vmPRO appliance's "/recover/files" directory. So, if it's CIFS, then it's "\\<vmPRO-Host-IP>\recover\files" and if it's NFS, then it's "<vmPRO-Host-IP>:/recover/files/"
The backups that you are seeing are actually being read from your backup target (NFS server, Quantum DXi, etc..), mounted as a file system and then exposed back to you in a browsable format. Actually pretty dang slick!
Under /recover/files, the hierarchy is: storage-target
- yyyy-mm (month of backup)
- yyyy-mm-dd-tttt (date and time of backup)
- folder-name (such as ESX server) VM-name
- disk-name
- partition-number (such as 0, 1, ...)
- files-and-directories
- partition-number (such as 0, 1, ...)
- disk-name
- folder-name (such as ESX server) VM-name
- yyyy-mm-dd-tttt (date and time of backup)
As a note, this sort of file-level exposure is only supported on EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, NTFS and FAT formatted file systems. For all other file systems (Solaris ZFS for instance), we do an IMAGE level backup, so the full virtual machine.
- yyyy-mm (month of backup)
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Permalink Reply by Josh Evangelo on
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Ok I get it. Is there a way to see the nfs storage size, used space, etc. From the vmpro gui?
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Permalink Reply by Jon McNerny on
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In vmpro 3.01 you cannot tell the space taken/ left on a NAS target. We do mount a read only file system under the /vmpro_ip_address/recover that will, if using samba, allow you to right click and do a properties in a windows environment. This has to be on the images or files folders. However, if you have mounted multple NFS/CIFS points this only really gives you a aggregate of the total byte count. Simply put, you need to check the mount space manually. We do toss an alert if the storage is nearing capacity in the GUI.
Not sure how 3.1 code handles this reporting yet. I'll post once i get a chance to test that further...
Jon
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I have no idea what happened but my cifs share on the virtual appliance is no longer browsable. I have tried \\host ip>>\recover\files and also the other cifs shares on the server. I keep getting a "the specified network nameis no longer available" message. I am trying to clear out my nfs storage because it is completely full and I want to purge the datastore.
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Does the storage show under 'SmartMotion Backup>Storage'? Does the share show as mounted? Did you boot the vmpro to see if this resolves the CIFS presentation?
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I had to modify my workstation registry to get it to basically use cifs without caring about security to it to work. Thanks for the suggestions.
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