RE: [Xen-users] Replicating a live server on a domU

["Nick Couchman" <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 2009/10/28 at 18:27, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>>> wrote:
>>  
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Has anybody ever stumbled upon the need to replicate a live and in
> production
>> server to a virtual machine?
>> 
>> I'm trying to virtualize a bunch of servers but I can't figure out how
> can I
>> mirror the file system. I do not want to start from scratch with them.
>> 
>> The whole idea is to transfer them to the virtual side as they
> currently are.
>> 
> 
> I do this on a semi-regular basis as part of backup testing for clients
> (eg to make sure that their backups are good). In theory you can just
> clone the disk and possibly fiddle with the CriticalDeviceDatabase and
> Services/xxx keys to ensure that the IDE driver can be used for booting.
> 
> James

Novell recently acquired a company called PlateSpin that does exactly this - 
currently the "live" functionality only works for Windows operating systems, 
but they're promising a version that will do Linux, soon, as well.  Linux can 
be done in the current version, but you have to bring the Linux system down - 
you can't do it on the fly.

-Nick



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