Comments on: Why you shouldn’t restore VMware ESX from a backup http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/why-you-shouldnt-restore-vmware-esx-from-a-backup/ A SearchVMware.com blog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Sbeaver http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/why-you-shouldnt-restore-vmware-esx-from-a-backup/#comment-107 Sbeaver Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:48:12 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/why-you-shouldnt-restore-vmware-esx-from-a-backup/#comment-107 I totally agree with you Ed but like to preach that ESX should be treated as an appliance and most well known engineers all have a rock solid automated build process. I believe that is is key and what can really seperate the good engineers from the great ones. I do not make any changes in production without adding the change to the build process. One thing to add on the build process. When you build an ESX server it is worth running the vm-support script after first boot so you have a baseline to refer back to. Steve Beaver I totally agree with you Ed but like to preach that ESX should be treated as an appliance and most well known engineers all have a rock solid automated build process. I believe that is is key and what can really seperate the good engineers from the great ones.

I do not make any changes in production without adding the change to the build process. One thing to add on the build process. When you build an ESX server it is worth running the vm-support script after first boot so you have a baseline to refer back to.

Steve Beaver

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