Trilead VM Explorer Install Tips
As some of you may know, I am a consultant, primarily with UNIX, virtualization and systems architecture. The last few days, I’ve been setting up a fairly low cost backup solution for a 100% MS-Windows shop running VMWare ESX 3.×. They have 15+ VMs and the old backup system had been shutdown and wiped more than a few months ago. There didn’t seem to be anything wrong with the prior backup solution except that the day-to-day system users didn’t know much about the setup. My task was to get that system working again.
The Tools
- Trilead VM Explorer – the VMware compatible VMDK backup software. Not the free version.
- Fire Daemon Pro – to run the backup task on a schedule.
- MS-Batch – .CMD files – to selectively control which VMs are backed up on specific days without point-and-click requirements.
- Service Accounts – this is very important in the MS-Windows world.
