[tlug] vmware, linux, snapshots

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

One of my clients is using vmware to run quite a few virtual servers,
mostly windows. They apparently don't have the more expensive license
that allows "hot snapshots" (which would allow moving a virtual server
from say one physical machine to another in a matter of minutes).
Instead they can take a snapshot once a week, and it is quite a slow
process. But, apparently, they cannot do even this for linux.

For this particular linux server they are setting up, there will be the
actual server, and then another server with the same spec that won't be
used, it just exists to take over if the first one goes down.

Are there any good vmware options here? Or is running rsync regularly,
to copy from main to backup server, the best choice?

Darren

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