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¶

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# 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¶

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# 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