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Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
Backup and Disaster Recovery for Virtual Infrastructures

Filename:
vsb-2.0-037.zip

Size Compressed:
110

Allocated Memory:
256

Username:
admin

Password:
secret

VMware Tools Installed?:
Yes

Operating System:
Debian Sarge

Applications:
apache2-common 2.0.54-4
postgresql 7.4.7-6sarge1
Virtual Solution Box 2.0-037

Description:
1. What does the appliance do?
Virtual Solution Box -- Backup and Disaster Recovery of Virtual Infrastructures
Virtual infrastructures based on VMware® ESX Server become more and more widely used. With this new technology, we see new chances and requirements for backup and recovery of systems. VSB is an integrated solution for simplified backup and restore of virtual infrastructures.
VSB offers full and incremental backup of virtual machines. VSB can restore these backups for disaster recovery. VSB supplements a file-based backup. Third-party backup software can be integrated into a backup concept based on VSB.
Backup of VMware® ESX Server Farms
VSB backs up virtual machines on VMware® ESX Server without the need of Linux knowledge. VSB is the base for rapid restore of virtual infrastructures in a disaster scenario, with or without a SAN. VSB backs up virtual machines using techniques offered by the host system and is transparent for the guest os. There is no need of an additional software on the guest os. Storage administrators can backup systems without deep knowledge of VMware® ESX Server or the guest os. VSB comes with a version management for virtual machines. Corrupt guest systems can be replaced by older, runnable versions.
Easy to Use
VSB has extensive monitoring functions. Administrators are informed by email about warnings and errors.
VSB offers an easy-to-use web-interface. Administrators do not need to use cryptic command-line interfaces to backup virtual machines. The web interface gives an overview about the virtual infrastructure, backup jobs, schedules, logs and backup targets.
Ready for Rapid Restore
VSB enables you to restore virtual machines rapidly. Choose the machines you want to restore, the destination and VSB will restore all necessary files.
Incremental VMFS Virtual Disk Replication
Incremental VMFS virtual disk replication is a feature that enables you to replicate virtual disks of virtual machines from one ESX Server to another using a LAN or a WAN. VSB will do incremental replication, therefore only changed blocks will be sent over the network and committed on the other side. Incremental replication is transparent to the virtual machine and its operating system.
Extended Reporting
All backups and restores are logged to an integrated database. VSB keeps track of all actions. VSB will give you an overview of your virtual disks and its backups. VSB lets you generate reports with all important data.
"Ready to Run"
VSB is delivered as a pre-configured virtual machine. The deployment of a VSB takes only a few minutes. The simple configuration plugs into an existing infrastructure. VSB is a virtual appliance based on open source technology.
System Requirements
* VMware® ESX Server 2.1 or higher ESX 3 is not supported yet
* Appliance also runs on VMware Workstation or VMware Server
* 4 GB free disk space (VMFS)
* 256 MB free memory for VSB on an ESX Server
* SMB/CIFS file server for backups
More Info: http://vsb.aexia.ch
2. How was the appliance built?
The Virtual Applicance is built from aeXia's source tree using a shell script. To optimize size, a "fillzero" is performed before distribution. We did not include VMware-tools, the user has to press "Install VMware Tools" in VMware Workstation or VC Console. All Settings: Network, Timezone, password and so on are configurable via the Web-Interface. The user does not have to interact with the Linux Console at all.
We use VMware-Tools to set up the network, if DHCP is not used.
Usually, this Appliance is run on an ESX Server, since it can backup ESX Servers. To make deployment from Windows to ESX easy, a Windows-based setup routine is included to deploy the Virtual Appliance.
2. To setup the appliance:
The appliance's size is 4 GB on the hard disk:
- 2 GB for the imported disk vsb.vmdk
- 2 GB for a data disk that is created: vsb.data.vmdk
To setup the appliance on an VMware ESX Server:
- Unzip the zip-file on your windows Workstation
- You should install the VMware Remote Console prior to Installation
- Run Setup.exe
- Check the output of the VMwware Remote Console
- Point your browser to the ip-address given in the Console Screen
- Continue with setup, see the Administration guide: vsb-administration-guide-2.0-037.pdf
To setup the appliance on your VMware Workstation:
- Unzip the zip-file on your windows or Linux Workstation
- Change directory to vsb
- Run the config-file "vsb.vmx"
- Check the output of the VMwware Remote Console
- Install VMware Tools via the Menu of your VMware Workstation
- Point your browser to the ip-address given in the Console Screen
- Continue with setup, see the Administration guide: vsb-administration-guide-2.0-037.pdf
4. Licenses
Virtual Solution Box is licensed under the VSB (VIRTUAL SOLUTION BOX) LICENSE AGREEMENT found on: http://vsb.aexia.ch/downloads/VSB-EULA.txt
The Virtual Appliance uses the following other licenses:
- Apache; this product includes software developed by the Apache
Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). Portions of this
software were developed at the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. This software contains code derived from
the RSA Data Security Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm,
including various modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie
Mellon University, and Bell Communications Research, Inc.
(Bellcore). Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE
library package, which is open source software, written by
Philip Hazel, and copyright by the University of Cambridge,
England. The original software is available from
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/. See the
terms of the Apache license under
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
- Debian GNU/Linux is licensed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation (version 2; http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) and
licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License (version 2.1; http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html).
These programs are distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE (see the GNU General Public License for more
details). For a period of three years starting with the download
of the software, you may request a machine-readable copy of the
corresponding source code of Debian GNU/Linux from the following
source: aeXia, Hammerstr. 8, CH 8180 Bülach. Any mail order will
be charged at cost price.
- Perl 5.8 is licensed under the terms of Perl's Artistic
license (http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/misc/Artistic.html).
Perl 5.8. IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. A copy of the Artistic License is included in
/opt/vsb/doc/Artistic on the VSB VM.

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

Debian Sarge

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 110MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 256

Applications Installed:

apache2-common 2.0.54-4
postgresql 7.4.7-6sarge1
Virtual Solution Box 2.0-037

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