Hello Shawn,
Oracle 11g has Oracle VSS driver similar to MS SQL. This driver is installed
automatically during database installation, but it is running as a separate
service. It is shown in the list of VSS writers when running. In addition, as
far as I understand, it is possible to install this
To expand on this... As I understand it, the newer versions of TSM for VE and
Virtualcenter are trying to offer a better-than-crash-consistent snapshot.
When an application supports it, VMware communicates through VSS to the
application (MSSQL for example) and it will attempt to quiesce the da
Hi Erwann!
Thanks to your link it's now working!
The caveat was that in our shop the TSM code is installed on a separate
filesystem (through a softlink in /opt/tivoli). Apparently TSM or DB2 doesn't
like softlinks because it will translate them to the target path. So the
softlinks in the sqllib
TSM4VE does get VMWare to create a snapshot, it's VMWare that then
integrates with the VM to do the VSS stuff.
As you don't have VSS, VMWare will use it's own driver to do this (SYNC).
it has been know for this quiesce stage to kill a busy server:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/searc
