Comments on: Online Backup using VM Scripts (ESX 2.5 upwards)

By: VMWare Training Fast Track « Cohenization Project

VMWare Training Fast Track « Cohenization Project — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:51:02 +0000

[...] Script for Vmware ESX 3.x – vmbk.pl ( free ) – http://www.vmts.net/vmbk3.htm Backup scripts – http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=23+and+http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/?p=156 Shell script – http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=475244 Perl script – [...]

By: Checking for snapshots, html email report! Â» Yellow Bricks

Checking for snapshots, html email report! Â» Yellow Bricks — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:09:03 +0000

[...] When reading the VMTN forum I stumbled upon a topic about checking the VMFS for snapshots. Besides snaphunter by Xtravirt, which is an excellent script, there isn’t much out there. You can check the VirtualCenter database for snapshots but this way you would not notice the orphaned snapshots. (Orphaned snapshot occur when the vmsd file gets corrupted.) A couple of months before Xtravirt posted their script I wrote my own snapshot checking script named snapcheck.sh. You can easily schedule it via the crontab and if you have the MIME module in place and smtp_send.pl it will send an HTML email to you with a nice table, yellow line means a registered snapshot and red line means an orphaned snapshot. You should also have ssh key authentication in place, check for more info ssh key authentication the RTFM website. You can download the snapcheck script here! Enjoy it. [...]

By: Scale the Mind » Blog Archive » Script - Checking ESX Disk Space Usage from a Central Linux Box

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:45:31 +0000

[...] The script expects SSH key authentication to be working (RTFM has a quick guide here for those who aren’t familiar) [...]