Aller au contenu principal

Backup Citrix Xenserver environment

Thread needs solution

Hello,

I would like to setup a backup of my Citrix Xenserver (6.0.2) environment with an LTO5 Tape Drive. As I understand for now (please correct me if I am wrong) backups of Xenserver does not work the way as backups of Hyper-V hosts work.
When I understand correctly, I have to install a agent into each virtual machine.

So my question is where to place the LTO drive. I would like to build the drive into the Xenserver host. Is this possible or do I have to use a seperate physical windows machine for this?

The second question is regarding this discussion: https://forum.acronis.com/forum/7060?destination=node%2F7060
When I need to install a agent into each virtual machine why should I compile the SNAPAPI module for the Xenserver host?

Thanks,
Sebastian

0 Users found this helpful
frestogaslorastaswastavewroviwroclolacorashibushurutraciwrubrishabenichikucrijorejenufrilomuwrigaslowrikejawrachosleratiswurelaseriprouobrunoviswosuthitribrepakotritopislivadrauibretisetewrapenuwrapi
Contributions: 22
Commentaires: 3800

Hi Sebastian,

Yes, your understanding is correct - there should be an agent installed inside each VM on XenServer. It's the same approach as in our products for RHEV/KVM or Oracle VM (see details in https://forum.acronis.com/forum/90972 ).

Therefore there is no need to install anything on the XenServer host itself and in order to enable backup to tape you should install Acronis Storage Node (available for Windows only) onto the machine which has the tape drive connected to it. The backups from the agents will be sent to Acronis Storage Node (to centralized vault) and written to tape. Attaching tape directly to XenServer host makes sense only if you can passthrough the tape to the guest OS of the VM running on the host where you install Acronis Storage Node. Otherwise it's better to set up a spare physical machine where you attach the tape drive to.

Thank you.
--
Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager

Hello,

sounds good. My first approach will be to use a physical machine for the tape drive, later I will try to migrate to the XEN-Server with a passthrough.
Can you answer me why the other thread discusses the compilation of the driver for the Citrix Host System?

Thanks,
Sebastian

frestogaslorastaswastavewroviwroclolacorashibushurutraciwrubrishabenichikucrijorejenufrilomuwrigaslowrikejawrachosleratiswurelaseriprouobrunoviswosuthitribrepakotritopislivadrauibretisetewrapenuwrapi
Contributions: 22
Commentaires: 3800

Hi Sebastian,

In the other thread customer wanted to back up the XenServer host itself (as a physical Linux machine), rather than VMs running on it. In fact this is not supported really good - Citrix warns users that installation of 3rd party software on XenServer is not recommended.

Thank you.
--
Best regards,
Vasily
Acronis Virtualization Program Manager