I know this isn't strictly VMWare-only but I'm trying to find out if anyone has managed to write any scripts to automate the snapshotting/replication of VMFS volumes on an EqualLogic SAN?
Clearly the VMs need to be suspended before snapshotting or replication occurs and that's easily done with the vmware-cmd perl scripts.
The EqualLogic perl interface allows you to run CLI commands on the SAN appliances but their output is very broad and I'm afraid my perl scripting is not really up to parsing reams and reams of configuration information.
Anyone got anything that might be up to the job?
Many thanks.
Chris