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Virtual XP fakeraid

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LordCalin

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I"m trying to virtualize a server 2008 machine which was used for nothing more then file sharing so the server aspect really isn't needed. I was going to downgrade it to just an XP Pro license, but mirroring is needed.

Any suggestions on a way to mirror a virtual XP in esxi? I know it won't do fakeraids at all, but i'm hoping for something I can install into XP that will do the mirror even if it's just the data and not at the boot/OS level.
 
Are you trying to protect against hardware/disk failure or create a backup copy of your data?

If its hardware/disk failure protection, you need to get a hardware-based raid controller (a cheap SAS/SATA PCI-E card will do) for your ESXi box. I found one on eBay a few years ago (Dell-branded LSI chipset) that works great. It only cost me around $35.

Since XP doesn't support OS-based mirroring and VMware doesn't do fakeraid, the only "mirroring" type of solution that I can think of is to create a simple robocopy batch file and schedule it in task manager. Unless the virtual disk you are "mirroring" your data to is on a separate physical disk, I'm not sure how much value this solution has. There are other software products that will do the same thing, but robocopy is free.
 
originally it was to be hardware/disk failure protection, but I tossed that out the window and now just want real time data backup, or as close as possible to realtime. I'm using 2 drives and so far all my VM's were linux based so I was able to create mdraid mirrors between the 2 datastores, but XP left me with the problem of how to do it.

I'd just use samba but businessvision seems to be extremely picky about how it's shared, and i've never been able to get it work from samba or VM'd server 2008 so VM'd XP was the next to try solution since I use to run it from a VM'd XP 4 years ago before we went bare metal 2008.

I'll check robocopy tho, thanks.
 
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