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9.2.3 Testing network connectivity
The network connectivity can only be tested by using the ping command
(Example 9-15); you cannot perform this function from the GUI, as you could in
the HMC.
Example 9-15 Testing network connectivity using ping
sysadmin@sdmc2:~> ping sdmc1.itso.ibm.com
PING sdmc1.itso.ibm.com (172.16.20.26) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from sdmc1.itso.ibm.com: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.075 ms
64 bytes from sdmc1.itso.ibm.com: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.045 ms
64 bytes from sdmc1.itso.ibm.com: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms
64 bytes from sdmc1.itso.ibm.com: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms
64 bytes from sdmc1.itso.ibm.com: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.069 ms
64 bytes from sdmc1.itso.ibm.com: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms
9.3 Backup and restore
The SDMC provides the capability to back up the whole virtual machine on to a
USB device or a remote secure FTP (SFTP) server, and restore the backup file
from the USB device or remote FTP server. The restore is a full image
deployment, and all existing virtual machine files are replaced by the backup
files.
Both the SDMC hardware appliance and software appliance have different
methods for backup and restore. The user uses the SDMC command line to back
up the hardware appliance, and uses the backup tools provided by the underlying
VMware or KVM hypervisor environments to back up the software appliance.
9.3.1 SDMC hardware appliance backup and restore
To back up or restore the Hardware Appliance, use the backup and restore
commands to back up or restore the whole virtual image to the attached USB
device or remote secure FTP (SFTP) server. The USB device can either be flash
memory or an HDD.
At the time of writing, there is no GUI support for backup and restore.