[dba-SQLServer] Syncing Virtual Machines

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Oct 25 06:26:24 CDT 2011


 > Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just copy the physical VM file from one server to another

The short answer is no.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 10/25/2011 7:13 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you just copy the physical VM file
> from one server to another, say daily? I have successfully done that with
> Sun VirtualBox.
>
> A.
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:07 AM, jwcolby<jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:
>
>> I have a virtual machine server (Colby-VM) and last weekend I rebuilt that
>> machine - new motherboard / memory in preparation for a faster CPU etc.  I
>> store all my stuff on a RAID array on a dedicated controller, and which
>> survives nicely across upgrades so I got lazy and did not backup.  (almost)
>> Everything that could go wrong did and by the end of the experience I was
>> sweating bullets about whether I was going to find one of my critical VMs.
>>
>>
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