First, many thanks to Wanda & others who have been so helpful in answering my previous VE questions!
We had a situation yesterday where 2 VE backups were causing the VM's to go unresponsive. No response to ping, unable to RDP, etc. As soon as the backup finished (or was killed in one case), the servers picked back up where they left off. They never rebooted, but you can actually see in the Windows event logs a gap where no activity happens. Has anyone seen this behavior before? VE is at 7.1.1.1, the Hosts are ESXi 5.0 U2, vCenter is 5.5, windows 2008R2. Secondly, while reading the docs, I ran across the idea of performing periodic full backups in VE due to fragmentation of "megablocks"? Is this needed? If so, how do you manage it (how frequently, do you try to scatter the fulls across every day, how do these interact with daily incrementals, etc)? If it matters, all our backups land on a VTL. Thanks, Steve Schaub Systems Engineer II, Backup/Recovery Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee 423-535-6574 (desk) 423-785-7347 (cell) ----------------------------------------------------- Please see the following link for the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee E-mail disclaimer: http://www.bcbst.com/email_disclaimer.shtm
