Quiesce your live VMware VMs before you snapshot them
Make sure you quiesce any services such as Oracle 10g DB in your VMware VMs before you snap them:
- Install VMware Tools in your VM
- Create /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script
- Create /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script
Use vcbMounter to snapshot your live VMware VM which will call /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script just BEFORE creating the snap and /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script approx 1 second AFTER the delta/diff/redo file has been created BUT before the original VMDK has been been exported via vmkfstools.
# cat /usr/sbin/pre-freeze-script
#!/bin/sh
#####################################
# DO NOT modify this file directly as it will be overwritten the next
# time the VMware Tools are installed.
#####################################
echo frez$(date) >> /var/log/snap
# cat /usr/sbin/post-thaw-script
#!/bin/sh
#####################################
# DO NOT modify this file directly as it will be overwritten the next
# time the VMware Tools are installed.
#####################################
echo thaw$(date) >> /var/log/snap
# tail /var/log/snap
frezWed Nov 28 11:26:20 GMT 2007
thawWed Nov 28 11:26:21 GMT 2007
